“To Die Is Nothing; But It Is Terrible Not To Live.”

Sometimes you climb out of bed in the morning and you think, I'm not going to make it, but you laugh inside — remembering all the times you've felt that way.

Charles Bukowski

“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)

Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.

Cormac McCarthy (via quotemadness)

“We are only here today not because what does not kill us makes us stronger, but because what does not kill us does not kill us.”

— Sam Sax, “Miracles"

The Average Fourth Grader Is a Better Poet Than You (and Me Too) by hannah gamble

“Missing you comes in waves. Tonight, I am drowning.”

— From the song by Jason Lancaster.

Suck on it like a good boy.

“I can barely conceive of a type of beauty in which there is no Melancholy.”

— Charles Baudelaire, The Flowers of Evil (via the-book-diaries)

Pablo Neruda, tr. by Mark Eisner, "One Hundred Love Sonnets: XVII", The Essential Neruda: Selected Poems

“It is better to act and repent than not to act and regret.”

— Niccolò Machiavelli, The Letters of Machiavelli (via the-book-diaries)