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waiting is a mistake

“Time is tricky. You have whole months, even years, when nothing changes a speck, when you don’t go anywhere or do anything or think one new thought. And then you can get hit eight a day, or an hour, or a half a second when so much happens it’s almost like you got born all over again into some brand-new person you for damn sure never expected to meet.”

— E.R. Frank

“The two most important days in your life are the day you were born and the day you find out why.”

— Mark Twain

“Life isn’t about waiting for the storm to pass. It’s about learning how to dance in the rain.”

— Vivian Greene

Danez Smith, from "summer, somewhere"

Marina Carreira, from "What the Water Gave Me"

Sunset bark under sail storm waiting, Oslofjorden, Oslo, 1900 - by Anders Beer Wilse (1865 - 1949), Norwegian

John Berryman from Dream Songs

I am glad it cannot happen twice, the fever of first love. For it is a fever, and a burden, too, whatever the poets may say.

Daphne Du Maurier, from Rebecca

— Jean-Paul Sartre, from “Nausea.”

“I don't feel guilt at being unsociable, though I may sometimes regret it because my loneliness is painful. But when I move into the world, it feels like a moral fall – like seeking love in a whorehouse.”

Susan Sontag, As Consciousness is Harnessed to Flesh: Journals and Notebooks, 1964-1980

Anne Sexton, "You, Doctor Martin," from To Bedlam and Part Way Back

Jennifer Chang, from "Dialogues (Against Literature)"

-Suicide letters from Anne sexton

“Poetry and art and knowledge are sacred and pure.”

— George Eliot, The Mill on the Floss

“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

Charles Bukowski, "our curious position," from War All The Time: Poems, 1981-1984

May Sarton, from Journal of a Solitude

[...] the more we are hurt, the more we are likely to take refuge in the imagination, [...]

Joyce Carol Oates, from The Journal of Joyce Carol Oates: 1973-1982

Ari Berk, Death Watch

“Wait for someone who love you differently. One who can see the fire in your soul, and the child in your laugh, and the ocean in your heart.”

— Unknown

“I felt myself in a solitude so frightful that I contemplated suicide. What held me back was the idea that no one, absolutely no one, would be moved by my death, that I would be even more alone in death than in life.”

— Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea (via nauseadaily)

“It is certain that we cannot escape anguish, for we are anguish.” - Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness

“I am going to lose myself — or else, the chance is that poetry will save me.”

— Anne Sexton, from ‘A Self-Portrait in Letters’ ⁠— W. D. Snodgrass, 11th March 1959⁠ (via derangedrhythms)

“When you can tell your story and it doesn’t make you cry, that’s when you know you’ve healed.”

— Unknown