i just like how this sounds
plans are like foreheads / wrinkles make them a lot more interesting.
Lyndsay Rush • A Bit Much: Poems
Stillness and Silliness almost look like the same word And maybe that’s because they both ask you to let go and have the courage to be at home with yourself
Lyndsay Rush • A Bit Much: Poems
There are times in the life of every man when a petticoat is more attractive to him than all the philosophy of the world.
George Sylvester Viereck • The House of the Vampire
Nobody wanted to huddle in a moldering churchyard after midnight because there was nowhere else to smoke. But huddle they did. Misery loved company and made strange bedfellows.
M. L. Rio • Graveyard Shift: A Novella
“Dearest, your little heart is wounded; think me not cruel because I obey the irresistible law of my strength and weakness; if your dear heart is wounded, my wild heart bleeds with yours. In the rapture of my enormous humiliation I live in your warm life, and you shall die—die, sweetly die—into mine. I cannot help it; as I draw near to you, you, in
... See moreJoseph Sheridan Le Fanu • Carmilla
They are both imperfections, it is true; but to be imperfect being their essence, the very greatness of their imperfection becomes their perfection.
Thomas De Quincey • On Murder Considered as one of the Fine Arts: Including THREE MEMORABLE MURDERS, A SEQUEL TO 'MURDER CONSIDERED AS ONE OF THE FINE ARTS.
Is there anyone stopping me from going with a smile, joyful and content?
Epictetus • The Complete Works: Handbook, Discourses, & Fragments
The only one stopping you from having joy is you
After all, you’re the one who knows himself, which is to say you know how much you’re worth to yourself and at what price you sell yourself. The price differs for different people.
Epictetus • The Complete Works: Handbook, Discourses, & Fragments
Of brains (if brains they had) he them beguiled, And turn’d a nation’s shallow joy to gloom.