Scars Have The Strange Power To Remind Us That Our Past Is Real.

“And once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about.”

— Haruki Murakami

“I trusted that I had God above me, and the wicked below me. What I meant this I did not know. Only that I suffered in the gap between them, and the sky seemed so far away.”

— John Ratz, “Sleeping on God”

“The sea is nothing but a library of all the tears in history.”

— Lemony Snicket (via quotemadness)

Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose, or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation.

Graham Greene, Ways Of Escape (via the-book-diaries)

“I can move everything but on.”

— Omar Holmon, “Precious Little Life”

NASA just dropped the closest image ever taken of Jupiter.

“It’s better to bet on this life than on the next.”

— Albert Camus, A Happy Death (via philosophybits)

“All the gods, all the heavens, all the hells, are within you.”

— Joseph Campbell

“Love is so short, forgetting is so long.”

— Pablo Neruda