"There's a lot of love, but not the kind I need." - Devendra Banhart, Pumpkin Seeds
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Showing posts with label quotations. Show all posts
you may be blue
"If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life." - Gwendolen to Jack in The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
i should have been a farmer
"It isn’t the things that are happening to us that cause us to suffer, it’s what we say to ourselves about the things that are happening." - Pema Chodron
darling
"I'm a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won't." - Fitzgerald
It's All Mixed Up
"So here I am, in the middle way, having had twenty years—
Twenty years largely wasted, the years of l'entre deux guerres
Trying to use words, and every attempt
Is a wholly new start, and a different kind of failure
Because one has only learnt to get the better of words
For the thing one no longer has to say, or the way in which
One is no longer disposed to say it. And so each venture
Is a new beginning, a raid on the inarticulate
With shabby equipment always deteriorating
In the general mess of imprecision of feeling,
Undisciplined squads of emotion. And what there is to conquer
By strength and submission, has already been discovered
Once or twice, or several times, by men whom one cannot hope
To emulate—but there is no competition—
There is only the fight to recover what has been lost
And found and lost again and again: and now, under conditions
That seem unpropitious. But perhaps neither gain nor loss.
For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business."
~ T.S.Eliot, Four Quartets, East Coker pt. V
