Latest Quotes

“I believe there is a difference between intrinsic human nature— which I agree does not change, and the aspects of human nature we routinely express, which can and do change.”

— Al Gore, The Future: Six Drivers of Global Change

“what we learn in love is how to hold on — how to hold on to each other while still holding on to ourselves.”

— Michael Xavier (@michael_xavier_writer), Michael Xavier

“for once I wish I could be the poem instead of the poet.”

— c.k. // sixteen (@poeticpoison), C.K

“I wanted to be one of those people who have streaks to maintain, who scorch the ground with their intensity. But for now, at least I knew such people, and they needed me, just like comets need tails.”

— John Green, Miles 'Pudge' Halter, Looking for Alaska

“you were a beautiful time in my life, and if that's all you'll ever be then that's okay. Not all art is destined to hang on the same walls forever.”

— Poetry, Poems, Art, Words (@k.towne.jr), K. Towne. Jr

“and in the end, we were all just humans, drunk on the idea, that love, only love, could heal our brokenness.”

— Christopher Poindexter (@christopherpoindexter), Christopher Poindexter

“I will miss you always, even in the moments when you are right beside me. Time apart has planted longing inside me and I do not think it is a weed that will ever stop growing. It will always live there.”

— Tyler Knott Gregson (@tylerknott), Tyler Knott

“A good muddy juice fills Joelle’s mouth with spit that’s as good as the juice, and her linen veil is drying and beginning once again comfortingly to flutter with her breath, and, perched alone and glanced at covertly by persons who don’t know they know her voice, she feels the desire to raise the ve…”

— David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

“I still remember you as a little girl who overwater plants because she doesn't know when to stop giving.”

— Trista Mateer Moreland (@tristamateer), Trista Mateer

“we burned down every building we ever touched and still had the audacity to call it love.”

— Ari [B]eastman (@arieastman), Ari Eastman

“I was naturally a loner, content just to live with a woman, eat with her, sleep with her, walk down the street with her.”

— Charles Bukowski, Women

“America was a shitty place to fuck.”

— Charles Bukowski, Women

“true love exists in moments stumbled upon by accident in hospitals, in airports, and underneath the stars gone before you realize it was there missed before you knew you had it.”

— a t t i cu s (@atticuspoetry), Atticus

“Goodness could be found sometimes in the middle of hell. We passed the bottle back and forth as I waited for the cab.”

— Charles Bukowski, Women

“I've been making a list of the things they don't teach you at school. They don't teach you how to love somebody. They don't teach you how to be famous. They don't teach you how to be rich or how to be poor. They don't teach you how to walk away from someone you don't love any longer. They don't teac…”

— Neil Gaiman, The Sandman

“When a person tells you that you hurt them, you don't get to decide that you didn't.”

— Louis CK, Louie

“Future reference, if you are confused about whether a girl can consent, see if she can speak an entire sentence. You couldn’t even do that. Just one coherent string of words. Where was the confusion? This is common sense, human decency.”

— Catie L'Heureux, The 5 Most Powerful Quotes From a Stanford Assault Victim’s Letter to Her Attacker

“When someone says that their love will never die, it means that their love is not real, for everything that is real dies.”

— Craig Ferguson, American on Purpose

“People just need a little help because they are so used to not loving.”

— Miranda July, No One

“The good news is, this wouldn't be the first time someone's crawled,tooth and nail, out of hell.”

— Iain Thomas, I Wrote This For You