"It matters not who you love, where you love, why you love, when you love or how you love, it matters only that you love."
– John Lennon (via andreasbrandell)

(via fuckyeahthebeatles)


"With soap, baptism is a good thing."
– Robert G. Ingersoll (via sharklauncher)

"It’s odd but even when I was a kid, I would write about ‘old and other times’ as though I had a lot of years behind me. Now I do, so there is a difference in the weight of memory. When you’re young, you’re still ‘becoming’, now at my age I am more concerned with ‘being’. And not too long from now I’ll be driven by ‘surviving’, I’m sure. I kind of miss that ‘becoming’ stage, as most times you really don’t know what’s around the corner. Now, of course, I’ve kind of knocked on the door and heard a muffled answer. Nevertheless, I still don’t know what the voice is saying, or even what language it’s in."
– David Bowie

"The new day is almost here, but the old one is still dragging its heavy skirts. Just as ocean water and river water struggle against each other at a river mouth, the old time and the new time clash and blend. Takahashi is unable to tell for sure which side — which world — contains his center of gravity."
– Haruki Murakami (After Dark)

"Does everyone feel this way? When I was young, I was perpetually overconfident or insecure. Either I felt completely useless, unattractive, and worthless, or that I was pretty much a success, and everything I did was bound to succeed. When I was confident, I could overcome the hardest challenges. But all it took was the smallest setback for me to be sure that I was utterly useless. Regaining my self-confidence had nothing to do with success; every goal I set myself, every recognition I craved made anything I actually did seem paltry by comparison, and whether I experienced it as a failure or triumph was utterly dependent on my mood."
– The Reader by Bernhard Schlink (Part 1, Chapter 13)

"You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred."
– Woody Allen (source)

"I always had a repulsive need to be something more than human."
– David Bowie (via misswallflower)

(via booklover)


"Another thing, I’ve thrown away my horoscopes. I must have spent a dollar on every goddamn star in the goddamn planetarium. It’s a bore, but the answer is good things only happen to you if you’re good. Good? Honest is more what I mean. Not law-type honest — I’d rob a grave, I’d steal two-bits off a dead man’s eyes if I thought it would contribute to the day’s enjoyment — but unto-thyself-type honest. Be anything but a coward, a pretender, an emotional crook, a whore: I’d rather have cancer than a dishonest heart. Which isn’t being pious. Just practical. Cancer may cool you, but the other’s sure to. Oh, screw it, cookie — hand me my guitar and I’ll sing you a fado in the most perfect Portugese."
– Holly Golightly

"Holly lifted her martini. “Let’s wish the Doc luck, too,” she said, touching her glass against mine. “Good luck: and believe me, dearest Doc—-it’s better to look at the sky than live there. Such an empty place; so vague. Just a country where the thunder goes and things disappear."
– Holly Golightly 

"Did you know that for pretty much the entire history of the human species, the average life span was less than thirty years? You could count on ten years or so of real adulthood, right? There was no planning for retirement, There was no planning for a career. There was no planning. No time for plannning. No time for a future. But then the life spans started getting longer, and people started having more and more future. And now life has become the future. Every moment of your life is lived for the future—you go to high school so you can go to college so you can get a good job so you can get a nice house so you can afford to send your kids to college so they can get a good job so they can get a nice house so they can afford to send their kids to college."
– John Green, Paper Towns (via isaniquarium)

(via julianmagic)


"Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?"
– Dumbledore (Deathly Hallows, King’s Cross)

"Let us endeavor to live so that when we die even the undertaker will be sorry."
– Mark Twain (via reluctantbuddha) (via quote-book)