17th Century Astronomical Art Of Maria Clara Eimmart; Celestial Splendor From A Forgotten Woman Who Broke

For what more terrifying revelation can there be than that it is the present moment?

- Virginia Woolf, Orlando

Still he looked; still he paused. It is these pauses that are our undoing.

- Virginia Woolf, Orlando

The overwhelming experience of tragedy is a disorientation expressed in one bewildered and frequently repeated question: What shall I do?

- Simon Critchley, Tragedy, the Greeks, and Us

I always want to see you laughing. It belongs to you.

Anaïs Nin, Henry and June

“I drink to our ruined house To the evil of my life To our loneliness together And I drink to you— To the lying lips that have betrayed us, To the dead-cold eyes, To the fact that the world is brutal and coarse To the fact that God did not save us.”

— Anna Akhmatova, Last Toast, trans. by Kate Farris and Ilya Kaminsky

From the Wikipedia page about the Fermi Paradox: Given the high scientific probability for alien existence, why can we find no evidence of their existence whatsoever?

The rain hovering over the city for days  finally fell. You were arriving after years...

Garous Abdolmalekian, Meeting tr. Ahmed Nadalizadeh and Idra Novey

as if you could not enjoy love without pain.

Anaïs Nin, Henry and June

Instead of making cathedrals out of Christ, man, or 'life,' we are making it out of ourselves

Barnett Newman, The Sublime is Now 

You never refuse. You simply don't speak.

Alicja Rybałko, A Prayer for the Forbidden Fruit tr. Regina Grol