purplebuddhaquotes:

“Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won’t either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed up.”

— Louise Erdrich

(Source: purplebuddhaquotes)

philosophybits:

“As I grow older, much older, I will experience many things, and I will hit rock bottom again and again. Again and again I will suffer; again and again I will get back on my feet. I will not be defeated. I won’t let my spirit be destroyed.”

— Banana Yoshimoto, Kitchen (via quotespile)

fluerishing:

“There’s too much to let go of and too much to keep.”

— Tennessee Williams, from Selected Stories; “Oriflamme,” c. January 1944
(via violentwavesofemotion)

thequotejournals:

“She had blue skin, And so did he. He kept it hid And so did she. They searched for blue Their whole life through, Then passed right by- And never knew.”

— Shel Silverstein, “Every Thing on It,” Where the Sidewalk Ends

(Source: thequotejournals.com)

gosh:

“It’s so strange how life works: You want something and you wait and wait and feel like it’s taking forever to come. Then it happens and it’s over and all you want to do is curl back up in that moment before things changed.”

—

Lauren Oliver, Delirium (via

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the-book-diaries:

“I am a fool with a heart but no brains, and you are a fool with brains but no heart; and we’re both unhappy, and we both suffer.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Idiot