How Wonderful To Be Alive, He Thought. But Why Does It Always Hurt?

Sophocles, from "Electra: A Tragedy," translated by Anne Carson

“The difference between a dream and wakefulness: we know it’s real if it hurts.”

— Emily Eastman - “The First Time” 

“To die is nothing; but it is terrible not to live.”

— Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

““Kings and lords come and go and leave nothing but statues in a desert, while a couple of young men tinkering in a workshop change the way the world works.””

— Lord Havelock Vetinari, The Truth, Discworld book 25

“I am not well; I could have built the Pyramids with the effort it takes me to cling on to life and reason.”

— Franz Kafka, Letters To Felice (via the-book-diaries)

October, Louise Glück

“Everyone is an artist” (2015). 

Kawasaki City, Kanagawa by Spanish street artist Pejac 

via spoon-tamago

“…because people who talk about their dreams are actually trying to tell you things about themselves they’d never admit in normal conversation. It’s a way for people to be honest without telling the truth.”

— Chuck Klosterman, Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story

“I considered suicide, but I felt a strange fondness for my body, my life. Scarred as they were, they were mine.” - Charles Bukowski