beforeeverafter
May 2012
67 posts
“I regret that it takes a life to learn how to live.”
—“I regret that it takes a life to learn how to live.”
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (via pernicketydetour)
― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (via pernicketydetour)
“Whenever someone who knows you disappears, you lose one version of yourself. Yourself as you were seen, as you were judged to be. Lover or enemy, mother or friend, those who know us construct us, and their several knowings slant the different facets of our characters like diamond-cutter’s tools. Each such loss is a step leading to the grave, where all versions blend and end.”
—Salman Rushdie, The Ground Beneath Her Feet (via selfinspiration)
“I wasn’t meant for reality, but life came and found me.”
—Fernando Pessoa, The Book Of Disquiet (via ecritpourtoi)
“Socializing is as exhausting as giving blood. People assume we loners are misanthropes, just sitting thinking, ‘Oh, people are such a bunch of assholes,’ but it’s really not like that. We just have a smaller tolerance for what it takes to be with others. It means having to perform. I get so tired of communicating.”
—Anneli Rufus (via airplanes)
