December 2008
58 posts
“Wolken ohne Schatten, // Auf der Südseite aber, // Ist ein Stückchen Himmel //...”
– Fernando Pessoa
“Anything simple always interests me.”
– David Hockney
“Zwischen oben zwischen unten
Schweb ich hin zu muntrer Schau,
Ich ergötze mich...”
– Johann Wolfgang Goethe
“I exist as I am, that is enough”
– Walt Whitman
“In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like...”
– Thomas Jefferson (via prospekt) (via gottfried)
“Nothing endures but personal qualities.”
– Walt Whitman
“Speak when you are angry—and you will make the best speech you’ll...”
– Laurence J. Peter
“i like too many things … running from one falling star to another till i drop....”
– j. kerouac (via capricious) (via wolke7)
“I live not in dreams but in contemplation of a reality that is perhaps the...”
– Rainer Maria Rilke (via affremblequotes) (via present)
“Eternity is a mere moment, just long enough for a joke.”
– Hermann Hesse
“And then the day came,
when the risk
to remain tight
in a bud
was more...”
– Anais Nin (via yesyes)
“We read to know we are not alone”
– C.S. Lewis via thesaurus (via misterpeace)
“In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible...”
– Albert Camus
(via nociva:isthisblood:sine-qua-non:kari-shma: microwalrus:benjaminhilts):vruz)
“If you want a wise answer, ask a reasonable question.”
– Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (via gottfried)
“Dare to be wrong and to dream.”
– Friedrich von Schiller
“To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.”
– Bernard M. Baruch
“Alea iacta est”
– Caesar (via misterpeace)
“O, now, for ever Farewell the tranquil mind! farewell content! Farewell the...”
– William Shakespeare
“Be fearless. If you don’t ask, the answer is always no.”
– Graham Hill (via darylzarraga) (via skysignal) (via browneyes) (via misterpeace)
“I wish they would only take me as I am.”
– Vincent van Gogh, Dear Theo: Autobiography of Vincent Van Gogh (via onherway)
“Art is the only way to run away without leaving home.”
– Twyla Tharp
“A person who won’t read has no advantage over one who can’t read.”
– Mark Twain (via zehnuhr)
“La verità è la verità.
Che la dica Agamennone o il guardiano dei suoi porci....”
– Antonio Machado, Juan de Mairena (via anarchaia)
“Everything has been figured out, except how to live.”
– Jean-Paul Sartre (via rainier and unicornology) (via gregbrown) (via present)
“I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things”
– Tom Waits (via travors) (via shadowfirebird) (via bossa) (via electronicalrattlebag) (via browneyes) (via microwalrus) (via misterpeace)
