Virginia Woolf ― The Years

Yes, I did write in my letter that I would wait for you forever. I didn’t mean exactly “forever,” I just included it for the rhythm.

— Dunya Mikhail, from “Non-Military Statements,” The War Works Hard tr. Elizabeth Winslow

Vincent van Gogh, from a letter to his brother Theo (London, beginning of January 1874)

Margarita Karapanou, tr. by Karen Emmerich, Rien ne va plus

“It’s all messy: the hair, the bed, the words, the heart. Life.”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 

David Lynch & Mark Frost, Twin Peaks

“If I can feel all this there must be something good in the universe…”

— Ezra Pound, from Poems And Translations (via violentwavesofemotion)

There was a star riding through clouds one night and I said to the star, 'Consume me'.

— Virginia Woolf, The Waves (Annotated)

“Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.”

— The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde

“There is a strange interdependence between thoughtlessness and evil.”

— Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem