September 2011
1 post
June 2011
1 post
January 2011
1 post
Though my soul may set in darkness, it will rise in perfect light;
I have loved...
– Galileo Galilei
December 2010
1 post
Play! Invent the world! Invent reality!
– Vladimir Nabokov, Look at the Harlequins!
November 2010
1 post
The human language is like a cracked kettle on which we beat out a time for a...
– Madame Bovary Gustave Flaubert
October 2010
2 posts
Did you ever walk through a room that’s packed with people, and feel so lonely...
– Jodi Picoult; Second Glance
The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known...
– Elizabeth Kubler Ross
September 2010
12 posts
I’m satisfied with the world only when I’m dreaming far away from it.
– Fernando Pessoa
Music gives soul to the universe
wings to the mind
flight to the imagination...
– Plato
Unclose your mind. You are not a prisoner. You are a bird in flight, searching...
– Haruki Murakami
I only have two kinds of dreams: the bad and the terrible.
Bad dreams I can...
– Neil Gaiman, The Sandman
August 2010
5 posts
I became insane, with long intervals of HORRIBLE sanity.
– Edgar A. Poe
The higher we soar, the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly.
– Friedrich Nietzsche
My tongue will tell the anger of my heart, or else my heart concealing it will...
– The Taming of the Shrew, William Shakespeare
July 2010
3 posts
That night, however, for the first time since my downfall gave me back the...
– Hermann Hesse, from Steppenwolf
June 2010
27 posts
Our Generation has had no Great war, no Great Depression. Our war is spiritual....
– Chuck Palahniuk
He meant the kingdom was over, the kingdom of heaven, it was all finished. We...
– Philip Pullman, ‘The Amber Spyglass’
Everybody has a secret world inside of them. All of the people in the world, I...
– Neil Gaiman, The Sandman Vol. 5: A Game of You
This tremendous world I have inside of me. How to free myself, and this world,...
– the diaries of Franz Kafka
You know that place between sleep and awake?
The place where you can still...
– Peter Pan
No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of...
– Shirley Jackson
1 tag
One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often.
– Erich Fromm
Reality depresses me. I need to find fantasy worlds and escape in them.
– Noel Fielding
Here is my secret. It is very simple: It is only with the heart that one can see...
– The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint Exupéry