Rainer Maria Rilke, Rilke’s Book Of Hours

“No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.”

— Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter

Alejandra Pizarnik, "Silences" from Extracting the Stone of Madness: Poems 1962 - 1972

Fade Into You - Mazzy Star / Slow Like Honey - Fiona Apple

“I do not speak as I think, I do not think as I should, and so it all goes on in helpless darkness.”

— Franz Kafka  (via quotemadness)

“I don’t dream at night, I dream at day, I dream all day; I’m dreaming for living.”

— Steven Spielberg (via meineluft)

birds hover the trampled field, richard siken

“I must change my life so that I can live it, not wait for it.”

— Susan Sontag (b. 16 January 1933)

Oscar Wilde, from At Verona

“I can’t think of a better way to revenge someone who tried to break you, than to live and love life more without them.”

— Innocent Mwatsikesimbe 

“I shall live on dreams because reality is too cruel to me. I think I shall be the kind of person nobody understands,”

— Anaïs Nin, from ‘Linotte; The Early Diary of Anaïs Nin: 1914-1920′