"Loneliness is like sitting in an empty room and being aware of the space around you. It is a condition of separateness. Solitude is becoming one with the space around you. It is a condition of union. Loneliness is small, solitude is large. Loneliness closes in around you; solitude expands toward the infinite. Loneliness has its roots in words, in an internal conversation that nobody answers; solitude has its roots in the great silence of eternity."

~   Kent Nerburn (from Whiskey River) (via crashinglybeautiful) (via thehermitage) (via indigenousdialogues)
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15th Jul 2012✧20:02528 notes

"I am lonely, yet not everybody will do. I don’t know why, some people fill the gaps but other people emphasize my loneliness."

~   Anais Nin (via evilgirl333x2)

(via evilgirl333x2)

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19th Jun 2012✧08:2933 notes

"Everyone goes through this crisis. For the average person this is the point when the demands of his own life come into the sharpest conflict with his environment, when the way forward has to be sought with the bitterest means at his command. Many people experience the dying and rebirth—which is our fate—only this once during their entire life. Their childhood becomes hollow and gradually collapses, everything they love abandons them, and they suddenly feel surrounded by the loneliness and mortal cold of the universe. Very many are caught forever in this impasse, and for the rest of their lives cling painfully to an irrevocable past, the dream of the lost paradise—which is the worst and most ruthless of dreams."

~   Hermann Hesse, Demian (via mutteringsofstatic)
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7th Jun 2012✧12:3629 notes
ediblegardensla: “I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape - the loneliness of it, the dead feeling of winter.  Something waits beneath it, the whole story doesn’t show.” - Andrew Wyeth
3rd Mar 2012✧18:0097 notes
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"Alienation as we find it in modern society is almost total: it pervades the relationship of man to his work, to the things he consumes, to the state, to his fellow man, and to himself. Man has created a world of man-made things as it never existed before. He has constructed a complex social machine to administer the technical machine he has built. Yet this whole creation of his stands over and above him. He does not feel himself as a creator and center, but as the servant of a Golem, which his hands have built. The more powerful and gigantic the forces are which he unleashes, the more powerless he feels himself as a human being. He is owned by his creations, and has lost ownership of himself."

~   

Erich Fromm (via cultureofresistance

)

(via indigenousdialogues)

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3rd Jan 2012✧16:55206 notes

"Tonight I came back to the hotel alone; the other has decided to return later on. The anxieties are already here, like the poison already prepared (jealousy, abandonment, restlessness); they merely wait for a little time to pass in order to declare themselves with some propriety. I pick up a book and take a sleeping pill, ‘calmly.’ The silence of this huge hotel is echoing, indifferent, idiotic (faint murmur of draining bathtubs); the furniture and the lamps are stupid; nothing friendly that might warm (‘I’m cold, let’s go back to Paris’). Anxiety mounts; I observe its progress, like Socrates chatting (as I am reading) and feeling the cold of the hemlock rising in his body; I hear it identify itself moving up, like an inexorable figure, against the background of the things that are here."

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Roland Barthes, A Lover’s Discourse: Fragments, 1977, trans. Richard Howard (via proustitute)

reminiscent of jean rhys’s good morning, midnight

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24th Aug 2011✧08:43150 notes

"Whoever is alone will stay alone,
will sit, read, write long letters through the evening,
and wander along the boulevards, up and down,
restlessly, while the dry leaves are blowing."

~   Rainer Maria Rilke, from “Autumn Day,” trans. Stephen Mitchell (via proustitute)
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11th Jul 2011✧15:37565 notes
brittanyharrold: kyndoll: Definition of my life. me, right now. lol
17th Jun 2011✧10:262,900 notes
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"But even so, every now and then I would feel a violent stab of loneliness. The very water I drink, the very air I breathe, would feel like long, sharp needles. The pages of a book in my hands would take on the threatening metallic gleam of razor blades. I could hear the roots of loneliness creeping through me when the world was hushed at four o’clock in the morning."

~   

Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (via animalsalvaje)

3am to 4am is the worst

(via dunkelviolettt)

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16th Jun 2011✧17:31427 notes

"I need to be alone. I need to ponder my shame and my despair in seclusion; I need the sunshine and the paving stones of the streets without companions, without conversation, face to face with myself, with only the music of my heart for company."

~   

Henry Miller (via cavesoflilith)

only u understand me

(via cavesoflilith)

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12th Jun 2011✧10:26342 notes
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