Aliciaavram

Person this morning: I don't think young people fully grasp the seriousness of climate change.

Me: Madam, young people are the ONLY people who fully grasp the seriousness of climate change.

“Sometimes, carrying on, just carrying on, is the superhuman achievement.”

— Albert Camus, The Fall (via books-n-quotes)

“At the present time, I long only to sleep and to remain silent. I am sick of humanity.”

— Albert Camus to Jean Grenier, Correspondence 1932-1960

Art by Emanuele Fais

“You do not write your life with words…You write it with actions. What you think is not important. It is only important what you do.”

— Patrick Ness, A Monster Calls (via books-n-quotes)

“People were created to be loved. Things were created to be used. The reason why the world is in chaos is because things are being loved and people are being used.”

— Emmanuel Torres, Shapes of Silence (via books-n-quotes)

“You will never be able to experience everything. So, please, do poetical justice to your soul and simply experience yourself.”

— Albert Camus, Notebooks (via books-n-quotes)

It’s strange how hundreds of years ago someone would listen to a piece of music, decide they like it and then would probably never be able to hear the same piece again

“I have such a desire to sleep and am so much behind my sleep. A good night, one good night and all this nonsense will be swept away.”

— Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea (via books-n-quotes)