You Think You Are The Greatest Sufferer In The World?

Ocean Vuong, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous: A Novel

“But in order to speak about all and to all, one has to speak of what all know and of the reality common to us all. The sea, rains, necessity, desire, the struggle against death–these are the things that unite us all. We resemble one another in what we see together, in what we suffer together. Dreams change from individual to individual, but the reality of the world is common to us all.”

Albert Camus, Create Dangerously

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“There are thoughts which are prayers. There are moments when, whatever the posture of the body, the soul is on its knees.”

— Victor Hugo, Les Misérables  (via letsmeetinourdreams)

“How beautiful it is and how easily it can be broken.”

— Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie (via the-book-diaries)

"if i was orpheus i would simply not turn around" yes you would. if you were orpheus and you loved eurydice, you would. to love someone is to turn around. to love someone is to look at them. whichever version of the myth — he hears her stumble, he can't hear her at all, he thinks he's been tricked — he turns around because he loves her. that's why it's a tragedy. because he loves her enough to save her. because he loves her so much he can't save her. because he will always, always turn around. "if i was orpheus i would simply —" you wouldn't be orpheus. you wouldn't be brave enough to walk into the underworld and save the person you love. be serious

“How do we forgive ourselves for all of the things we did not become?”

— Doc Luben, “14 Lines from Love Letters or Suicide Notes”

“We are all wearing masks. That is what makes us interesting.”

— Neil Gaiman (via quotemadness)

“It is nothing; I am here; I am still here.”

— Arthur Rimbaud, from What Are They To Us… in “Selected Poems And Letters” [translated by Jeremy Harding and John Sturrock]

“Violence does not always take visible form, and not all wounds gush blood.”

— Haruki Murakami