the best often die by their own hand just to get away, and those left behind can never quite understand why anybody would ever want to get away from them
- 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)
Suck on it like a good boy.
“Everyone is an artist” (2015).
Kawasaki City, Kanagawa by Spanish street artist Pejac
via spoon-tamago
“I’m not afraid of dying. Pieces of me die all the time.”
— Sage Francis
I don’t want just words. If that’s all you have for me, you’d better go.
F. Scott Fitzgerald (via quotemadness)
Charles Bukowski, "hurry slowly," from Come On In!
— Charles Bukowski
“For only the good doubt their own goodness, which is what makes them good in the first place. The bad know they are good, but the good know nothing. They spend their lives forgiving others, but they can’t forgive themselves.”
— Paul Auster, Man in the Dark
We are our own dragons as well as our own heroes, and we have to rescue ourselves from ourselves.
Tom Robbins, Still Life with Woodpecker (via the-book-diaries)