Personal Jesus
Depeche Mode
Depeche Mode | Personal Jesus
October 2011
“I need someone whose mind falls like a chopper on a block; to whom the pitch of absurdity is sublime, and a shoe-string adorable.”
—Virginia Woolf, The Waves (via human-voices)
“If the night is dark, it’s that nothing can distract us from our nightmares.”
—Boris Karlof
“Can’t repeat the past?” he cried incredulously. “Why of course you can!”
—Jay Gatsby, The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Chapter VI (via charlenewilde)
Fake Empire
The National
Turn the light out say goodnight, no thinking for a little while,
Let’s not try to figure out everything at once.
It’s hard to keep track of you falling through the sky.We’re half awake in a fake empire.
The National - Fake Empire
“A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.”
—Ingrid Bergman (via privatism)
“You can love someone so much…But you can never love people as much as you can miss them.”
—John Green (via dancingskeleton)
“I need to get away somewhere, but I find it hard to think about it, I need to leave and go somewhere, once and for all, like a stranger.”
—Anne-Marie Garat, We Can’t Go On Like This (via human-voices)
“When someone loves you, the way they say your name is different. You know that your name is safe in their mouth.”
—Jess C. Scott (via 15natives)
“I write differently from what I speak, I speak differently from what I think, I think differently from the way I ought to think, and so it all proceeds into deepest darkness.”
—Franz Kafka (via nirvikalpa)
“Who hasn’t asked himself, am I a monster or is this what it means to be human?”
—Clarice Lispector (via human-voices)
“I have absolutely no pleasure in the stimulants in which I sometimes so madly indulge. It has not been in the pursuit of pleasure that I have periled life and reputation and reason. It has been the desperate attempt to escape from torturing memories, from a sense of insupportable loneliness and a dread of some strange impending doom.”
—Edgar Allan Poe (via misswallflower)
“Yes: I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.”
—Oscar Wilde (via human-voices)
Heartbeats
José González
Heartbreats (cover) by José González
“You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet, still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.”
—Franz Kafka (via pavorst)
“I said, I prefer the ocean when it’s gray. Or not really gray. A pale, in-between color. It reminds me of waiting for something good to happen.”
—Lauren Oliver (via enamoras)
“Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose, or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation.”
—Graham Greene (via misswallflower)
“Let us love, since that is all our hearts were made for.”
—St. Thérèse de Lisieux (via quote-book)
“Perhaps they were right putting love into books. Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.”
—William Faulkner (via misswallflower)
