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"Failing to fetch me at first, keep encouraged. Missing me one place, search another. I stop somewhere waiting for you."
— Walt Whitman

tags: american, poetry
50 people liked it

"And your very flesh shall be a great poem."
— Walt Whitman

47 people liked it

"What is that you express in your eyes? It seems to me more than all the words I have read in my life."
— Walt Whitman

51 people liked it

"We were together. I forget the rest."
— Walt Whitman

31 people liked it

"I discover myself on the verge of a usual mistake."
— Walt Whitman (Song of Myself)

tags: poetry
24 people liked it

"I act as the tongue of you,
... tied in your mouth . . . . in mine it begins to be loosened."
— Walt Whitman

tags: poet, poetry, poets
11 people liked it

""Re-examine all you have been told...
Dismiss what insults your Soul." "
— Walt Whitman

11 people liked it

"I cannot be awake, for nothing looks to me as it did before, or else I am awake for the first time, and all before has been a mean sleep."
— Walt Whitman

tags: walt_whitman
8 people liked it

"I hear and behold God in every object, yet understand God not in the least."
— Walt Whitman

11 people liked it

"Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent."
— Eleanor Roosevelt

tags: confidence, inspirational, wisdom
10,108 people liked it

"I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best."
— Marilyn Monroe

tags: best, life, love, mistakes, out-of-control, truth, worst
10,204 people liked it

"Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle."
— Plato

tags: compassion, kindness
910 people liked it

"There is truth in wine and children"
— Plato (Symposium and Phaedrus)

54 people liked it

"You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

tags: art, chaos
442 people liked it

"Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

tags: corruption, dark, fighting, monsters, side, soul
352 people liked it

"What does your conscience say? — 'You should become the person you are'."
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

57 people liked it

"Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own."
— Robert A. Heinlein (Stranger in a Strange Land)

tags: essential, happiness, love
2,950 people liked it

"All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring."
— Chuck Palahniuk

tags: god, life
1,513 people liked it

"This is your life and its ending one moment at a time."
— Chuck Palahniuk (Fight Club)

tags: life
229 people liked it

"If death meant just leaving the stage long enough to change costume and come back as a new character...Would you slow down? Or speed up?"
— Chuck Palahniuk

tags: death
147 people liked it

"Have your adventures, make your mistakes, and choose your friends poorly -- all these make for great stories."
— Chuck Palahniuk

125 people liked it

"We've all been raised on television to believe that one day we'd all be millionaires, and movie gods, and rock stars. But we won't. And we're slowly learning that fact. And we're very, very pissed off."
— Chuck Palahniuk (Fight Club)

89 people liked it

"Every relationship is fundamentally a power struggle, and the individual in power is whoever likes the other person less."
— Chuck Klosterman (Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto)

102 people liked it

""Styx and The Stones may break my bones but 'More than Words' will never hurt me""
— Chuck Klosterman (Killing Yourself to Live: 85% of a True Story)

15 people liked it

"But whenever I meet dynamic, nonretarded Americans, I notice that they all seem to share a single unifying characteristic: the inability to experience the kind of mind-blowing, transcendent romantic relationship they perceive to be a normal part of living. And someone needs to take the fall for this. So instead of blaming no one for this (which is kind of cowardly) or blaming everyone (which is kind of meaningless), I'm going to blame John Cusack."
— Chuck Klosterman (Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs: A Low Culture Manifesto)

tags: humor, relationships
25 people liked it

"People who talk about their dreams are actually trying to tell you things about themselves they’d never admit in normal conversation."
— Chuck Klosterman

20 people liked it

"I want
To do with you what spring does with the cherry trees."
— Pablo Neruda (Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair: Dual Language Edition)

tags: love
123 people liked it

"You are like nobody since I love you"
— Pablo Neruda

35 people liked it

"I should like to sleep like a cat,
with all the fur of time,
with a tongue rough as flint,
with the dry sex of fire;
and after speaking to no one,
stretch myself over the world,
over roofs and landscapes,
with a passionate desire
to hunt the rats in my dreams."
— Pablo Neruda

16 people liked it

"I would like to be the air that inhabits you for a moment only. I would like to be that unnoticed and that necessary."
— Margaret Atwood

80 people liked it

"The only way you can write the truth is to assume that what you set down will never be read. Not by any other person, and not even by yourself at some later date. Otherwise you begin excusing yourself. You must see the writing as emerging like a long scroll of ink from the index finger of your right hand; you must see your left hand erasing it."
— Margaret Atwood (The Blind Assassin)

tags: truth, writing
43 people liked it

"You fit into me
like a hook into an eye

a fish hook
an open eye"
— Margaret Atwood

36 people liked it

"Women have curious ways of hurting someone else. They hurt themselves instead; or else they do it so the guy doesn't even know he's been hurt until much later. Then he finds out. Then his dick falls off."
— Margaret Atwood (Der blinde Mörder / The Blind Assassin)

31 people liked it

"Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody."
— J.D. Salinger (The Catcher in the Rye)

163 people liked it

"I am a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy"
— J.D. Salinger

tags: happiness
118 people liked it

"I love you to pieces, distraction, etc."
— J.D. Salinger (Franny and Zooey)

18 people liked it

"Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead. "
— Charles Bukowski

448 people liked it

"That's the problem with drinking, I thought, as I poured myself a drink. If something bad happens you drink in an attempt to forget; if something good happens you drink in order to celebrate; and if nothing happens you drink to make something happen."
— Charles Bukowski (Women: A Novel)

tags: alcohol
139 people liked it

"what matters most is how well you walk through the fire"
— Charles Bukowski

77 people liked it

"Sex is kicking death in the ass while singing."
— Charles Bukowski

70 people liked it

"dogs and angels are not
very far apart"
— Charles Bukowski (The People Look Like Flowers At Last: New Poems)

25 people liked it

"it seemed to me that I had never met
another person on earth
as discouraging to my happiness
as my father.
and it appeared that I had
the same effect upon
him."
— Charles Bukowski (You Get So Alone at Times That It Just Makes Sense)

13 people liked it

"Hell is other people."
— Jean-Paul Sartre (No Exit: A Play in One Act)

tags: hell, people
122 people liked it

"If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company. "
— -Jean-Paul Sartre

60 people liked it

"Words are loaded pistols."
— Jean-Paul Sartre

36 people liked it

"I suppose it is out of laziness that the world is the same day after day. Today it seemed to want to change. And then anything, anything could happen."
— Jean-Paul Sartre (Nausea)

16 people liked it

"Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat."
— Jean-Paul Sartre

14 people liked it

"There is only one day left, always starting over: It is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk."
— Jean-Paul Sartre

tags: carpe-diem, inspirational
7 people liked it

"Kiss me and you'll know how important I am."
— Sylvia Plath

tags: importance, kiss, kissing
417 people liked it

"Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no to-morrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace."
— Sylvia Plath (The Bell Jar)

tags: death, peace
365 people liked it

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