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#1

“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 Nietzsche

tags: corruption, dark-side, fighting, monsters, soul

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#2

“Do you think, because I am poor, obscure, plain and little, I am soulless and heartless? You think wrong! - I have as much soul as you, - and full as much heart! And if God had gifted me with some beauty and much wealth, I should have made it as hard for you to leave me, as it is now for me to leave you!”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

tags: charlotte-bronte, heart, heartbreak, jane-eyre, love, misconceptions, obscurity, parting, plainness, poverty, soul

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#3

“Words are a pretext. It is the inner bond that draws one person to another, not words.”
― Rumi

tags: bond, celaleddin, inadequacy-of-words, inner, language, mawlana, mawlana-jalal-al-din-rumi, mevlana, pretext, rumi, soul, structuralism, turkey, türkiye, words

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#4

“She is like a cat in the dark
And then she is the darkness
She rules her life like a fine skylark
And when the sky is starless

All your life you've never seen a woman
Taken by the wind
Would you stay if she promised you heaven?
Will you ever win?”
― Stevie Nicks, Best of Fleetwood Mac

tags: femininity, freedom, independence, rhiannon, welsh-witch, women

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#5

“The problem with introspection is that it has no end.”
― Philip K. Dick

tags: cosmos, ego, infinity, introspection, meditation, self

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#6

“He was abominable...and the most alluring, tortured soul I'd ever met.”
― Becca Fitzpatrick

tags: becca-fitzpatrick, dangerous, dark, lover, mysterious, nora-grey, patch, patch-cipriano

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#7

“Everybody is equally weak on the inside, just that some present their ruins as new castles and become kings –”
― Simona Panova, Nightmarish Sacrifice

tags: abandon, cardew, castle, destroy, destroyed, devastated, everybody, everyone, fear, fiction, force, fort, fortress, freya, general, ghost, gothic, gothic-romance, image, inside, king, mask, mysterious, mystery, no-one, nobody, outside, play, power, powerful, present, pretend, queen, romance, ruin, ruins, self-image, strength, strong, stronghold, suspense, weak, weakness, young-adult

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#8

“Those with less curiosity or ambition just mumble that God works in mysterious ways. I intend to catch him in the act.”
― Damien Echols, Life After Death

tags: ambition, curiosity, god, mysterious

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#9

“It was like looking at the ocean: some days, you could tell what mood
it was in. Most days, though, it was unreadable, mysterious.”
― Rick Riordan, The Lightning Thief

tags: mysterious, oceann, unreadable

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#10

“Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this too, was a gift.”
― Mary Oliver

tags: box, darkness, gift, love

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#11

“I am a forest, and a night of dark trees: but he who is not afraid of my darkness, will find banks full of roses under my cypresses.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra

tags: darkness

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#12

“Look at how a single candle can both defy and define the darkness.”
― Anne Frank

tags: candle, darkness, illumination, misattributed

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#13

“I do not speak as I think, I do not think as I should, and so it all goes on in helpless darkness.”
― Franz Kafka

tags: darkness

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#14

“Yet, no matter how deeply I go down into myself, my God is dark, and like a webbing made of a hundred roots that drink in silence.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke, The Selected Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke

tags: darkness

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#15

“You see, some people are born with a piece of night inside, and that hollow place can never be filled - not with all the good food or sunshine in the world. That emptiness cannot be banished, and so some days we wake with the feeling of the wind blowing through, and we must simply endure it as the boy did.”
― Leigh Bardugo, The Language of Thorns: Midnight Tales and Dangerous Magic

tags: darkness, emptiness, endurance, light

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#16

“Magnus, standing by the door, snapped his fingers impatiently. "Move it along, teenagers. The only person who gets to canoodle in my bedroom is my magnificent self."
"Canoodle?" repeated Clary, never having heard the word before.
"Magnificent?" repeated Jace, who was just being nasty. Magnus growled. The growl sounded like "Get out.”
― Cassandra Clare, City of Bones

tags: canoodle, city-of-bones, clary-fray, humor, jace-wayland, magnificent, magnus-bane

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#17

“I am as magnificent and mysterious as life is.”
― Debasish Mridha

tags: dalai-lama, debasish-mridha, eckhart-tolle, gandhi, life, magnificent, mridha-quotes, mysterious, rumi, william-shakespeare

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#18

“and what is not there
is always more than there.”
― Ruth Stone, In the Next Galaxy

tags: contradictory, in-the-next-galaxy, memory, mysterious, poetry, ruth-stone

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#19

“Incarnation is an empty glass.”
― Ruth Stone, In the Next Galaxy

tags: in-the-next-galaxy, incarnation, mysterious, poetry, ruth-stone

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#20

“That is the voice of a place like this, where dead voices echo. They attract men and women of all kinds. But only certain gods visit here…”
― Eric Nierstedt, SHADOW PANTHEON: (PANTHEON SAGA BOOK 2)

tags: action, fantasy, good-vs-evil, mysterious, mythical, original, unique, urban-fantasy

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#21

“I do know that for the sympathy of one living being, I would make peace with all. I have love in me the likes of which you can scarcely imagine and rage the likes of which you would not believe. If I cannot satisfy the one, I will indulge the other.”
― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

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#22

“It is clear that the individual who persecutes a man, his brother, because he is not of the same opinion, is a monster.”
― Voltaire

tags: argument, belief, monster, opinion, philosophy

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#23

“He wasn't made of flesh and bone, or starlight.
He was made of darkness.”
― Victoria Schwab, This Savage Song

tags: monster

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#24

“The fallen angel becomes a malignant devil. Yet even that enemy of God and man had friends and associates in his desolation; I am alone.”
― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

tags: desolation, inspirational, monster

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#25

“Life, although it may only be an accumulation of anguish, is dear to me, and I will defend it.”
― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

tags: life

2104 likes

#26

“I ought to be thy Adam, but I am rather the fallen angel...”
― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

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#27

“I know my worth. I embrace my power. I say if I'm beautiful. I say if I'm strong. You will not determine my story. I will. I'll speak and share and fuck and love, and I will never apologize for it. I am amazing for you, not because of you. I am not who I sleep with. I am not my weight. I am not my mother. I am myself. And I am all of you.”
― Amy Schumer, The Girl with the Lower Back Tattoo

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#28

“Well, now
If little by little you stop loving me
I shall stop loving you
Little by little
If suddenly you forget me
Do not look for me
For I shall already have forgotten you

If you think it long and mad the wind of banners that passes through my life
And you decide to leave me at the shore of the heart where I have roots
Remember
That on that day, at that hour, I shall lift my arms
And my roots will set off to seek another land”
― Pablo Neruda, Selected Poems

tags: forgetting, heartbreak, inspirational, living, love, moving-on

4512 likes

#29

“Sleep did not honor me with it’s presence.”
― Alysha Speer, Sharden

tags: body-of-blade, exhausted, honor, me, presents, sharden, sleep, sleepy, sword, tired, us, we

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#30

“I am not a finished poem, and I am not the song you’ve turned me into. I am a detached human being, making my way in a world that is constantly trying to push me aside, and you who send me letters and emails and beautiful gifts wouldn’t even recognise me if you saw me walking down the street where I live tomorrow
for I am not a poem.
I am tired and worn out and the eyes you would see would not be painted or inspired
but empty and weary
from drinking too much
at all times
and I am not the life of your party who sings and has glorious words to speak
for I don’t speak much
at all
and my voice is raspy and unsteady from unhealthy living and not much sleep and I only use it when I sing and I always sing too much
or not at all
and never when people are around because they expect poems and symphonies and I am not
a poem
but an elegy
at my best
but unedited and uncut and not a lot of people want to work with me because there’s only so much you can do with an audio take, with the plug-ins and EQs and I was born distorted, disordered, and I’m pretty fine with that,
but others are not.”
― Charlotte Eriksson, Another Vagabond Lost To Love: Berlin Stories on Leaving & Arriving

tags: artist, audio, beautiful, detached, disorder, disordered, distorted, drinking, elegy, empty, eq, eyes, fine, glorious, growing-up, human, inspired, learning, letters, life, living, painted, party, people, poem, poetry, prose, push-aside, recognize, send, singing, song, speak, street, tired, tomorrow, unhealthy, unsteady, voice, weary, words, world, worn-out

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