Czeslaw Milosz, New And Collected Poems: 1931-2001

three stages of life:

1. there are monsters under my bed.

2. there are monsters in my head.

3. i am the monster now.

Jason Schneiderman, from "Staircase", You Are Here: Poetry in the Natural World

“Angels are bright still, though the brightest fell. But tell me, tell me, how do you know he lost any of his brightness in the falling?” - D.H. Lawrence, Lucifer

//Casablanca

“I want to be with you, it is as simple, and as complicated as that.”

— Charles Bukowski

“First we feel. Then we fall.” - James Joyce, Finnegans Wake

How wonderful to be alive, he thought. But why does it always hurt?

Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago (via the-book-diaries)

“I’ve always been interested in people, but I’ve never liked them.”

— Henry James (via quotemadness)

Ocean Vuong, The Weight of Our Living: On Hope, Fire Escapes, and Visible Desperation