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

Do it !😁

“…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

You are the knife I turn inside myself.

Franz Kafka

…human life is but a series of footnotes to a vast obscure unfinished masterpiece.

Vladimir Nabokov, Pale Fire (via the-book-diaries)

“Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.”

— Voltaire

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)

“Love isn’t soft, like those poets say. Love has teeth which bite and the wounds never close.”

— Stephen King (via quotemadness)

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)

happy "everyone forgets that icarus also flew" monday. i want to throw up !