I Think The Reason Why The Ring Finger Is The Ring Finger Is Romantic

“By being too sensitive I have wasted my life.”

— Arthur Rimbaud (b. 20 October 1854)

“It is amazing what one ray of sunshine can do for a man!”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Humiliated and Insulted

“She imagines him imagining her. This is her salvation.”

— Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin (via drearydoll)

Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone, This Is How You Lose the Time War

“I can’t think of a better way to revenge someone who tried to break you, than to live and love life more without them.”

— Innocent Mwatsikesimbe 

“Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.”

— Mother Teresa

“I must see new things and investigate them. I want to taste dark water and see crackling trees and wild winds.”

— Egon Schiele (via kittencrimson)

[He] felt that the murky twilight which was gradually seeping into the room was also slowly penetrating his body, transforming his blood into fog, and that he was powerless to stop the spell that was being cast on him by the twilight.

Vladimir Nabokov, Mary, 1926

“And I can’t be running back and forth forever between grief and high delight.”

— J.D. Salinger  (via quotemadness)

“I do not speak as I think, I do not think as I should, and so it all goes on in helpless darkness.”

— Franz Kafka  (via quotemadness)