(Source: nevver, via transcending-nihilism)
Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.
—Albert Camus (via human-voices)
(Source: darlienne, via transcending-nihilism)
(via transcending-nihilism)
Others of us are lost. We’re forever seeking. We torture ourselves with philosophies and ache to see the world. We question everything, even our own existence. We ask a lifetime of questions and are never satisfied with the answers because we don’t recognize anyone as an authority to give them. We see life and the world as an enormous puzzle that we might never understand, that our questions might go unanswered until the day we die, almost never occurs to us. And when it does, it fills us with dread.
—Lisa Unger, Sliver of Truth (via sellyourcleverness)
(Source: lostinthesounds, via sellyourcleverness)
Springsteen!
Snow!
I am one of the searchers. There are, I believe, millions of us. We are not unhappy, but neither are we really content. We continue to explore life, hoping to uncover its ultimate secret. We continue to explore ourselves, hoping to understand. We like to walk along the beach, we are drawn by the ocean, taken by its power, its unceasing motion, its mystery and unspeakable beauty. We like forests and mountains, deserts and hidden rivers, and the lonely cities as well. Our sadness is as much a part of our lives as is our laughter. To share our sadness with one we love is perhaps as great a joy as we can know – unless it be to share our laughter. We searchers are ambitious only for life itself, for everything beautiful it can provide. Most of all we love and want to be loved. We want to live in a relationship that will not impede our wandering, nor prevent our search, nor lock us in prison walls; that will take us for what little we have to give. We do not want to prove ourselves to another or compete for love.
—James Kavanaugh (via sellyourcleverness)
(Source: troubled, via sellyourcleverness)
Why does a tragedy like 9/11 change everything about air travel, but numerous gun massacres CHANGE NOTHING?
—Justine Bateman, hitting the nail on the head. (via coketalk)
(via downwithwarsupwithwhores)
Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won’t either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed up. And when it happens that you are broken, or betrayed, or left, or hurt, or death brushes near, let yourself sit by an apple tree and listen to the apples falling all around you in heaps, wasting their sweetness. Tell yourself you tasted as many as you could.
—Louise Erdrich (via kari-shma)
(via transcending-nihilism)
People are strange: They are constantly angered by trivial things, but on a major matter like totally wasting their lives, they hardly seem to notice.
—Charles Bukowski (via myheadisweak)
—(via mysticmementos)
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