July 2010
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“No sense of the irony of human experience, that we are the highest form of life...”
– Don Delillo, White Noise (via gabylomba, amildcomplication, fuckyeahexistentialism)
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“See, thats the trouble, a sex symbol always becomes a thing. I just hate to be a...”
– Marilyn Monroe talking about people who become concepts… (via tobia, dirtyhippielovers)
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Rain
by Donald Hall
Curled on the sofa, In the fetal position, Jane wept day And night, night and day. I could not touch her; I could do nothing. Melancholia fell Like rain over Ireland for week Without end. I never Belittled her sorrows or joshed at Her dreads and miseries. How admirable I found myself.
(via poetry365)
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“Rape is such a paradoxical subject that it is often seen by one sex as the most...”
– Suzanne Lacy (via bkrugergraffiticollective)
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“You cannot find peace by avoiding life.”
– Virginia Woolf (via howmyheartbehaves, funeral)
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Sophia Bush's open letter to Urban Outfitters...
Ladies! This is OUTRAGEOUS. I hope none of you will stand for being told such a thing, in such a way. Being healthy, eating right, and staying active is one thing. Being told to starve yourselves by a fashion company? Not cool.
UO,
I have been a supporter of your store for many years, but now I’m through. […]
To promote starvation? To promote anorexia, which leads to heart disease, bone...
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“I hadn’t understood how days could be both long and short at the same time: long...”
– Albert Camus, The Stranger
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O’ Sailor, Fiona Apple (via fairphantom,...
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Writer Suicides
Virginia Woolf, 1882-1941 The great modernist writer suffered from depression and might well have been bipolar. In the spring of 1941, she filled her overcoat with stones and walked into the River Ouse near her home in England. Ernest Hemingway, 1899-1961 The Pulitzer and Nobel prize-winning author lived hard and fast, surviving accidents, suffering chronic pain, and battling depression. He lost...
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“Oh Beautiful for smoggy skies, insecticided grain, For strip-mined mountain’s...”
– George Carlin (via apsies, suicideblonde)
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“People waited all their lives. They waited to live, they waited to die.”
– Charles Bukowski (via conjuredspirits, funeral)
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The grief is a planet. A dust ring. A small moon that’s been hidden under my pillow, that’s been changing the way my body moves this whole time.
— Camille Rankine, The Increasing Frequency of Black Swans (via funeral, serpentskirt, strangerains, sequoiasempervirens, moonshineandroses, youarebonbon)
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I am a Scientist, Guided by Voices (via inennui)
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“In order for us as poor and oppressed people to become part of a society that is...”
– Ella Baker (via revolutionnow)
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“Curiosity is the very basis of education and if you tell me that curiosity...”
– Arnold Edinburgh (via betterwordsthanmine)
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20 Things You Didn't Know About Death
1. The practice of burying the dead may date back 350,000 years, as evidenced by a 45-foot-deep pit in Atapuerca, Spain, filled with the fossils of 27 hominids of the species Homo heidelbergensis, a possible ancestor of Neanderthals and modern humans. 2. There are at least 200 euphemisms for death, including “to be in Abraham’s bosom,” “just add maggots,” and “sleep with the Tribbles” (a Star Trek...
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Needles in My Eyes, The Beta Band (via...
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