“I like for you to be still: it is as though you were absent,
distant and full of sorrow as though you had died.
One word then, one smile, is enough.
And I am happy, happy that it’s not true.” "Me Gustas Cuando Callas" - Pablo Neruda (tr. W.S. Merwin) ✪

“For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.” Rainer Maria Rilke ✪

“Writing, for me, has always been about grief and loss and sacrifice. It was about sorting through things. It was making sense of things. And I always felt like devoting myself to it made those things manifest in my life. The times when I was most prolific were also times of extreme grief…” talesfrommidair - "Operation Favorite Me" ✪

“Be careful when you cast out your demons that you don’t throw away the best of yourself.” Friedrich Nietzsche, "Also sprach Zarathustra" ✪

“You love someone, you open yourself up to suffering, that’s the sad truth. Maybe they’ll break your heart, maybe you’ll break their heart and never be able to look at yourself in the same way. Those are the risks. That’s the burden.” Dr. Brennan - "Bones" ✪

“We don’t know what we’ve been missing until it arrives.” anonymous ✪

“When we win it’s with small things,
and the triumph itself makes us small.
What is extraordinary and eternal
does not want to be bent by us.” Rainer Maria Rilke, "The Man Watching" ✪

“If boredom is the great emotion of the TV generation, loneliness is the great emotion of the Web generation. We lost the ability to be still, our capacity for idleness. They have lost the ability to be alone, their capacity for solitude.” W. Deresiewicz in "The End of Solitude" ✪