May 2013
24 posts
apoetreflects:
“I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I’m awake, you know?”
—Ernest Hemingway
“The world will knock you down plenty. You don’t need to be doing it to yourself.”
– Elizabeth Scott, Perfect You (via erraticintrovert)
“The ultimate sexual seduction resides in words.”
– Zizek, The Pervert’s Guide to Cinema (2006)
And so it goes.
April 2013
7 posts
Man tries to take photo of beaver; it kills him →
apsies:
The accompanying photo to this story of a stuffed beaver is really the best part.
journalofanobody:
“He spoke of human solitude, of the intrinsic loneliness of a sophisticated mind, one that’s capable of reason and poetry, but which grasps at straws when it comes to understanding another, A mind aware of the impossibility of absolute understanding … The difficulty of having a mind that understands that it’ll never be understood.”
—Nicole Krauss
February 2013
3 posts
“I like sleeping alone—stretching out like a sky diver, cool patches to roll on to. I should appreciate it more.” - Don Draper, MAD MEN
Word. Nothing like having the bed to yourself.
Every time I drink alone or with others, I think: “This will be my last.” But I won’t let it be because I strongly feel it cannot be—and so I will not let it be.
What will happen if I don’t continue my inebriated state? Nothing. Maybe a hangover. Maybe hunger. But not much, really.
So, why am I so afraid to face it? I fear sobriety. I know I can deal with it, but I...
January 2013
14 posts
I'm all for meeting cute girls.
Why you babysittin' only two or three shots?
I never thought I’d be one to appreciate rap/hip-hop; I used to think the genre was almost pointless and lacked aesthetic value. But no. I appreciate words and the types of art words can create, and this includes rap. Now, of course this doesn’t mean I enjoy ALL rap/hip-hop songs—a lot of them aren’t artistic—but I very much enjoy when a rap artist plays with...
Clinton’s clot located between brain and skull,... →
“In the course of a routine follow-up MRI on Sunday, the scan revealed that a right transverse sinus venous thrombosis had formed. This is a clot in the vein that is situated in the space between the brain and the skull behind the right ear. It did not result in a stroke, or neurological damage. To help dissolve this clot, her medical team began treating the Secretary with blood thinners. She...
poeticplanema:
“I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily life.”
— Virginia Woolf (via dulcetdecember)
apoetreflects:
” … [C]hange comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy perfume of wildflowers hidden in the grass.”
—John Steinbeck
ideolatry:
Don’t surrender your loneliness so quickly, let it cut more deep. Let it ferment and season you as few human or even divine ingredients can. Something missing in my heart tonight has made my eyes so soft, my voice so tender, my need of god absolutely clear.
—Hafiz
“This is an important lesson to remember when you’re having a bad day, a bad...”
– Kelly Cutrone, If You Have to Cry, Go Outside: And Other Things Your Mother Never Told You (via jaegerjaques)
December 2012
72 posts
