"I used to think the worst thing in life was to end up all alone. It’s not. The worst thing in life is to end up with people who make you feel all alone."
Robin Williams (via ileu)
"And when at last you find someone to whom you feel you can pour out your soul, you stop in shock at the words you utter— they are so rusty, so ugly, so meaningless and feeble from being kept in the small cramped dark inside you so long."
Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath (via larmoyante)
christinasanantonio:
“It was the time of year, the time of day, for a small insistent sadness to pass into the texture of things. Dusk, silence, iron chill. Something lonely in the bone.”
—Don DeLillo, from White Noise (Viking, 1985)
"Silence is beautiful, not awkward. The human tendency to be afraid of something beautiful is awkward."
"Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another."
"Mind you, sometimes the angels smoke, hiding it with their sleeves, and when the archangel comes, they throw the cigarettes away: that’s when you get shooting stars."
"Don’t surrender all your joy for an idea you used to have about yourself that isn’t true anymore."