Latest Quotes

“Just in case you ever foolishly forget; I’m never not thinking of you.”

— Virginia Woolf, Selected Letters

“Everybody wants to talk about the politics of my grief but nobody wants to talk about my grief.”

— Jejune Being, via Facebook

“Online, we don’t have access to social cues. There’s no one on the receiving end of our jabs and tirades and vitriol. All we see are words on a screen in a text box. Empathy is null and void. Sometimes, I write things down that I think and feel and post them on the internet. Maybe you like to cook f…”

— Stephanie Wittels Wachs, The End of Empathy

“A wise man who I loved very much once said: “Let’s stop finding a new witch of the week and burning them at the stake. We are all horrible and wonderful and figuring it out.””

— Stephanie Wittels Wachs, The End of Empathy

“Maybe people are just shitty. Or maybe it’s the internet’s fault. Or maybe people are just shitty and it’s the internet’s fault.”

— Stephanie Wittels Wachs, The End of Empathy

“i recommend never allowing yourself to become fully aware of the realities of your existence”

— Oscar Bruno d'Artois, Teen Surf Goth

“Still ridin' around foreign cars smokin' gas”

— Jim Jones, Harlem

“Oh simple thing where have you gone? I'm getting old and I need something to rely on. So tell me when you're gonna let me in, I'm getting tired and I need somewhere to begin.”

— Keane, Somewhere Only We Know

“If, then, I were asked for the most important advice I could give, that which I considered to be the most useful to the men of our century, I should simply say: in the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.”

— Leo Tolstoy, Essays, Letters and Miscellanies

“We could not have helped it, dissolving back into kisses, into resurrections, sprinting like fawn and satyr to our room, wishing the disdainful doe-eyed desk clerk gone when, past noon, we’d stride out again to gambol and ogle and gawk, eat and drink, kiss and talk, our bodies opening and flaunting…”

— GrayJacobik, Paris, 1970 in Narrative Magazine

“Because the Warrior of the Light believes in miracles, miracles begin to happen. Because he is sure that his thoughts can change his life, his life begins to change. Because he is certain that he will find love, love appears.”

— Paulo Coelho, Warrior Of The Light: A Manual

“I cannot imagine how we forgive ourselves for all of the things we didn’t say until it was too late.”

— Doc Luben, 14 Lines From Love Letters Or Suicide Notes

“How can something be there and then just not be there? How do we forgive ourselves for all the things we did not become?”

— Doc Luben, 14 Lines From Love Letters Or Suicide Notes

“We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.”

— Tom Robbins, Read This If You’re A 20-Something Who Already Feels Defeated By Love

“Hillary Clinton's history of supporting interventionism puts her in a weird place to be portraying her opponent as trigger happy.”

— Yousef Munayyer, Clinton's Foreign Policy Speech Marred by Inherent Contradictions

“I hated knowing what I wanted and knowing what was right and knowing they weren’t the same thing.”

— Maggie Stiefvater, Forever

“Each day I wondered what would happen next. What happens when you stop wanting, when you are happy. I supposed I would go on being happy forever. I knew I would not mess things up by growing bored. I had done that once before.”

— Miranda July, No One Belongs Here More Than You

“By covering my entire body with polka dots, and then covering the background, I am in with polka dots as well, I find self-obliteration. My own mass is therefore absorbed into something timeless. And when that happens, I too am obliterated.”

— Yayoi Kusama, Cosmic Play: An Interview with Yayoi Kusama

“The Anxiety Trick is this: You experience Discomfort, and get fooled into treating it like Danger. What do we do when we're in danger? We only have three things: Fight, Flight, and Freeze. If it looks weaker than me, I'll fight it. If it looks stronger than me, but slower, I'll run away. And if it l…”

— David Carbonell, Panic Attacks Help: Overcome Panic & Anxiety Attacks!

“At 15:30:08 UTC on Sunday, 4 December 292,277,026,596 64-bit versions of the Unix time stamp would cease to work, as it will overflow the largest value that can be held in a signed 64-bit number. This is more than ten times the estimated age of the universe, which is 1.3x1010 years (13.7 billion), a…”

— Wikipedia, Unix time