“There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.” - Willam Shakespeare
“I can scarcely measure the sky’s most spacious eyes
and I lean down to your mouth to kiss the earth.” - Pablo Neruda
“What is not brought to consciousness comes to us as fate." - C. Jung
“It’s dark because you are trying too hard.
Lightly child, lightly. Learn to do everything lightly.
Yes, feel lightly even though you’re feeling deeply.
Just lightly let things happen and lightly cope with them. “ - Aldous Huxley
“Why do old men wake so early? Is it to have one longer day?” - Ernest Hemingway
“Unless you explore what is most profound, in what has come before you, then you never will get down to the recesses of yourself.” - Harold Bloom
“I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead: I lift my lids and all is born again” - Sylvia Plath
“the curious feeling
swam through him
that everything
was
beautiful
there,
that it would always
stay beautiful
there. “ - Charles Bukowski
“There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go.” - Tennessee Williams
“Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming "Wow! What a Ride!””
― Hunter S. Thompson
“If you're going to try, go all the way. There is no other feeling like that. You will be alone with the gods, and the nights will flame with fire. You will ride life straight to perfect laughter. It's the only good fight there is.” - Charles Bukowski
"now
lighting new cigarettes
pouring new
drinks
it has been a beautiful
fight
still
is" - Charles Bukowski
“Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up.” - James Baldwin
“I have no right to call myself one who knows. I was one who seeks, and I still am, but I no longer seek in the stars or in books; I'm beginning to hear the teachings of my blood pulsing within me. My story isn't pleasant, it's not sweet and harmonious like the invented stories; it tastes of folly and bewilderment, of madness and dream, like the life of all people who no longer want to lie to themselves.” - Hermann Hesse
“The desire to be loved is the last illusion. give it up and you will be free.” - Margret Atwood
“Peace of mind and heart arrives when we accept what is: having been born into this strange life we must accept the wasted gamble of our days and take some satisfaction in the pleasure of leaving it all behind”
~Charles Bukowski
“I will cut adrift—I will sit on pavement and drink coffee—I will dream; I will take my mind out of its iron cage and let it swim—this fine October.” - Virginia Wolf
“These are the late poems.
Most poems are late
of course: too late,
like a letter sent by a sailor
that arrives after he’s drowned.” - Margaret Atwood
“I don’t ask for much from life.
It’s enough for me to know
I had what I could,
I loved what was worth loving,
and I lost only
what was never mine” - Ernest Hemingway
“I understand there's a guy inside me who wants to lay in bed, smoke weed all day, and watch cartoons and old movies. My whole life is a series of stratagems to avoid, and outwit, that guy.” - Anthony Bourdain
“Show me a hero, and I'll write you a tragedy.” - F Scott Fitzgerald
“Now I've heard there was a secret chord
That David played, and it pleased the Lord
But you don't really care for music, do you?
It goes like this, the fourth, the fifth
The minor falls, the major lifts
The baffled king composing Hallelujah” - Leonard Cohen
“From the little reading I had done I had observed that the men who were most in life, who were molding life, who were life itself, ate little, slept little, owned little or nothing. They had no illusions about duty, or the perpetuation of their kith and kin, or the preservation of the State. They were interested in truth and in truth alone. They recognized only one kind of activity - creation.” - Henry Miller
““His descent was like nightfall.” - Homer
“a year ago, six months ago, I thought that I was an artist. I no longer think about it, I am. “ - Henry Miller
"Anybody can play. The note is only 20%. The attitude of the motherer who plays it is 80 percent" - Miles Davis
“I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself.” - D. H. Lawrence
"I really don't know why it is that all of us are so committed to the sea, except I think it's because in addition to the fact that the sea changes, and the light changes, and ships change, it's because we all came from the sea. And it is an interesting biological fact that all of us have, in our veins the exact same percentage of salt in our blood that exists in the ocean, and, therefore, we have salt in our blood, in our sweat, in our tears. We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea - whether it is to sail or to watch it - we are going back from whence we came." - JFK
“Do I contradict myself?
Very well then I contradict myself,
(I am large, I contain multitudes.) “ - Walt Whitman
”Tyger Tyger burning bright,
In the forests of the night:
What immortal hand or eye,
Dare frame thy fearful symmetry?” - William Blake
“My soul bleeds and the blood steadily, silently, disturbingly slowly, swallows me whole.” - Fyodor Dostoevsky
“Without music, life would be a mistake.” - Nietzsche
“Living is easy with eyes closed
Misunderstanding all you see
It's getting hard to be someone, but it all works out
It doesn't matter much to me” - The Beatles
“It's the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.” - Paulo Coelo
“Because I could not stop for Death –
He kindly stopped for me –
The Carriage held but just Ourselves –
And Immortality.” - Emily Dickinson
““Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.” - Leo Tolstoy
“You’re mad, bonkers, completely off your head. But I’ll tell you a secret. All the best people are.” - Lewis Carroll
“The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry.” - Ernest Hemingway
“Suppose all the lions get up and go,
And all the brooks and soldiers run away;
Will Time say nothing but I told you so?
If I could tell you I would let you know.” - W. H Auden
“The planet is fine. The people are fucked.”
― George Carlin
“Our researchers into Public Opinion are content
That he held the proper opinions for the time of year;
When there was peace, he was for peace: when there was war, he went.
He was married and added five children to the population,
Which our Eugenist says was the right number for a parent of his generation.
And our teachers report that he never interfered with their education.
Was he free? Was he happy? The question is absurd:
Had anything been wrong, we should certainly have heard.” - W. H Auden
“All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.” - J. R. R. Tolkien
“Been so long since a strange woman has slept in my bed
Look how sweet she sleeps, how free must be her dreams
In another lifetime she must have owned the world, or been faithfully wed
To some righteous king who wrote psalms beside moonlit streams
I and I
In creation where one’s nature neither honors nor forgives
I and I
One says to the other, no man sees my face and live” - Bob Dylan
“One of these mornings
You're gonna rise up singing
Yes you'll spread your wings
And you'll take to the sky” - Ella Fitzgerald
"Do not compare, do not measure. No other way is like yours. All other ways deceive and tempt you. You must Fullfill the best way that is in you."
- Carl Jung.
“since feeling is first is first
who pays any attention
to the syntax of things
will never wholly kiss you;
wholly to be a fool
while spring is in the world” - E. E. Cummings
“Someone has to leave first. This is a very old story. There is no other version of this story. - Richard Siken
“My desire for knowledge is intermittent; but my desire to bathe my head in atmospheres unkown to my feet is perennial and constant. - H. D. Thoreau
“let your soul stand cool and composed before a million universes” - Walt Whitman
“we,
the ones who
have the Souls-
die oftener” - Emily Dickinson
“And you, my father, there on the sad height,
Curse, bless, me now with your fierce tears, I pray.
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.” - Dylan Thomas