gravity-rainbow:

In the Tibetan Book of the Dead, crying is not allowed. Why? Because it is supposedly confusing to the dead.

Lauri Anderson - Heart of Dog

niimph:

“I was a romantic and sentimental creature, with a tendency towards solitude.”

— Isabel Allende, The House of the Spirits

liberalsarecool:

seaymph:

“Melancholy is a sensual pleasure that is deliberately provoked. How many people shut themselves away to make themselves sadder, or to weep beside a stream, or choose a sentimental book! We are constantly building and unbuilding ourselves.”

— Gustave Flaubert 
(via down-the-rabbith0le)

seaymph:

“Stars open among the lilies. Are you not blinded by such expressionless sirens? This is the silence of astounded souls.”

— Sylvia Plath, Crossing the Water
(via margorobbie)

seaymph:

“You, poetry incarnate, must know, after all, that your very name is a poem.”

— Marina Tsvetaeva, from a letter to Rainer Maria Rilke c. May 1926
(via in-the-middle-of-a-daydream)

memewhore:

jiangwanyin:

— vladimir nabokov, in a letter to his wife [24 march 1937] from letters to véra (trans. olga voronina & brian boyd)

indefinableheart:

“Nature never hurries. Atom by atom, little by little she achieves her work”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

beartnie:

There’s a quote from Bert where he says he‘s “known big bird since he was a little bird” and the thought of it makes my heart cry so here’s that

greycloudsandlinings:

vladdies:

vladdies:

have y’all seen that nasa pic of the earth with the sun behind it on the night time side it really really fucked me up my own soul became solid and like………….. weeped!

who wouldn’t see this and then look deeply into their own emotional playing field to see what improvements could be made purely inspired by the vulnerable earth. this is the face of all literal gods

That’s actually called the Overview Effect- something experienced by some astronauts that makes them see that “from space, national boundaries vanish, the conflicts that divide people become less important, and the need to create a planetary society with the united will to protect this “pale blue dot” becomes both obvious and imperative”.

trans4trans:

yeah im perceiving the horrors but i’m also perceiving the beauty of life as well