July 2010
60 posts
“Sometimes I get scared that this feeling will slip away into something less than the wonderfulness it is now. So I’ve got a plan. Let’s capture how we feel right now and keep it forever.”
—Mike Gayle (via quotewhore)
Pink Floyd - High Hopes
Beyond the horizon of the place we lived when we were young
In a world of magnets and miracles
Our thoughts strayed constantly and without boundary
The ringing of the division bell had begun
Along the long road and on down to the causeway
Do they still live there by the cut
There was a ragged band that followed in our footsteps
Running before time took our dreams away
Leaving the myriad small creatures trying to tie us to the ground
To a life consumed by slow decay
The grass was greener
The light was brighter
With friends surrounded
The nights of wonder
Looking beyond the embers of bridges glowing behind us
To a glimpse of how green it was on the other side
Steps taken forwards but sleepwalking back again
Dragged by the force of some inner tide
At a higher altitude with flag unfurled
We reached the dizzy heights of that dreamed up world
Encumbered forever by desire and ambition
There’s a hunger still unsatisfied
Our weary eyes still stray to the horizon
Though down this road we’ve been so many times
The grass was greener
The light was brighter
The taste was sweeter
The nights of wonder
With friends surrounded
The dawn mist glowing
The water flowing
The endless river
Forever and ever
“We fear violence less than our own feelings. Personal, private, solitary pain is more terrifying than what anyone else can inflict.”
—Jim Morrison
“Everyone of us is losing something precious to us. Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back again. That’s part of what it means to be alive. But inside our heads—at least that’s where I imagine it—there’s a little room where we store those memories. A room like the stacks in this library. And to understand the workings of our own heart we have to keep on making new reference cards. We have to dust things off every once in a while, let in fresh air, change the water in the flower vases. In other words, you’ll live forever in your own little private library.”
—Haruki Murakami (via kari-shma)
“But who can say what’s best? That’s why you need to grab whatever chance you have of happiness where you find it, and not worry about other people too much. My experience tells me that we get no more than two or three such chances in a life time, and if we let them go, we regret it for the rest of our lives.”
—Haruki Murakami (via) (via vasta, loveyourchaos)
“Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia. You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you’ll escape it one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining that future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present.”
—John Green, Looking for Alaska (via) (via vasta)
“Why, sometimes I’ve believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.”
—Queen, Through the Looking-Glass
“I hate all movements that disturb my pose,
I smile not ever, neither do I weep.” —Beauty, by Charles Baudelaire
I smile not ever, neither do I weep.” —Beauty, by Charles Baudelaire
“I wonder if you still think of me. I carry your image always in my head folded and yellowed and torn at the edge and I have looked upon it for many years. I am losing your face, you’re caught in my head like a thorn on a vine to forever torment me. The oceans roll us away and I lose your hand in these waves. Sometimes I wish I never knew you in the first place.”
—(via iamnocturnal) (via nawazaki)
LA FLORISTA BONITA: French Words With No English Translation →
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Dépaysement:
The sensation of being in another country.
La douleur exquise: The heart-wrenching pain of wanting someone you can’t have. Even a Sex in the City episode was named after it!
Chômer: To be unemployed, but because it’s a verb, it makes the state active.
Profiter: To make the most of or take advantage of.
Flâneur: As defined in the book Elegant Wits and Grand Horizontals, it’s “the deliberately aimless pedestrian, unencumbered by any obligation or sense of urgency, who, being French and therefore frugal, wastes nothing, including his time which he spends with the leisurely discrimination of a gourmet, savoring the multiple flavors of his city.”
Esprit d’escalier: The literal translation is staircase wit, but it means to think of a comeback when it’s too late.
Retrouvailles: The happiness of meeting again after a long time.
Sortable: An adjective for someone you can take anywhere without being embarrassed.
Voila/voici: It’s so necessary that we use it all the time. “Voila” literally means “there it is” and “voici means “here it is.”
Empêchement: An unexpected last-minute change of plans. A great excuse without having to be specific
(via thrillsandfrills)
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Paradise Circus (Gui Boratto Remix) - Massive Attack
“I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don’t have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.”
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Virginia Woolf
We learned this in Psychology. I think this also explains so much of what I’ve been feeling for the past few days nights. The past is always more beautiful, but it doesn’t mean it was right. A trick of the mind.
(via alishalisha, nostalgicdreams)
“To be nobody but yourself in a world that’s doing its best to make you somebody else, is to fight the hardest battle you are ever going to fight. Never stop fighting.”
—E. E. Cummings
“No people can be both ignorant and free.”
—T. Jefferson
“Love me when I least deserve it, because that’s when I really need it.”
—Swedish Proverb
“… all matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration… we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively. There’s no such thing as death, life is only a dream, and we’re the imagination of ourselves.”
—Bill Hicks
“We all pay for life with death, so everything in between should be free.”
—Bill Hicks
