“There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.”
— Ernest Hemingway (via feedforthefire)
(Source: nathanielstuart, via feedforthefire)
“Consciousness, unprovable by scientific standards, is forever the impossible phantom in the predictable biologic machine, and your every thought a genuine supernatural event. Your every thought is a ghost, dancing.”
— Alan Moore, Promethea Vol. 5 (via happychild)
(Source: lazyyogi, via saturnrising)
“Life is savagely unfair. It ignores our deep-seated convictions and places a disproportionate emphasis on the decisions we make in split seconds.”
— Chris Cleave, Little Bee (via larmoyante)
(Source: larmoyante, via georgettemagritte)
Maria Schell & Marcello Mastroianni
Le notti bianche, Luchino Visconti, 1957
“Ride your horse along the edge of a sword; hide yourself in the middle of the flames.”
— Zen proverb (via samsaranmusing)
(via atelierellsworth)
“If you get hungry enough, they say, you start eating your own heart.”
— Margaret Atwood (via petrichour, mermaidsbones) (via lordbyronismylover)
“The floor seemed wonderfully solid. It was comforting to know I had fallen and could fall no farther.”
— Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar (via deaths-and-entrances)
(Source: the-books-girl, via deaths-and-entrances)
“Sometimes we don’t do things we want to do so that others won’t know we want to do them”
— Ivy Walker, The Village (via writing-myself)
