Macklemore

I admit, I really miss how things used to be. 

But I can also admit, that I've accepted the fact that things have changed.

I think music has helped me more in life than any other human being ever has.

You stole the sun for me
I stole the moon for you
together we stole the stars
and together we will build our own universe

(found on tumblr)

Self love is so important. Because when you're all alone and it's 3 in the morning and you're lying on the floor crying and shaking and wishing it all would end, who's going to be there for you? You. You have to pick yourself up and find the strength to carry on. At the end of the day, you're all you've got.

(found here: https://wnq-writers.com/post/118628780660)

Clementine von Radics

No, I'm not ok. But I haven't been ok since I was 11, maybe 12. I am still here though.
I'm still breathing. For me, sometimes, that will have to be enough.

My Love From The Star, 2013

This is not crying.

It's tears coming out of my eyes.

My Love From The Star, 2013

The method to not be hurt by other people:

Don't give or take anything. 

Don't expect anything either. 

Then, you won't be disappointed or hurt.

My Love Form The Star, 2013

Making eye contact is also very similar to touching. When humans meet the eyes of the one they love, their brains produce dopamine to preserve the sense of well-being. Your heart rate increases by two-fold when you're kissing. The oxygen intake increases more than 20-fold. Even the blood pressure momentarily shoots up as well. So you will feel your heart racing and feel out of breath. You could also feel light-headed and be deceived into thinking that you're in love. However, all of these are mere playful games of skinship and your hormones' trickery. You shouldn't fall for it. Do not be deceived. A fast beating heart… And falling in love must be distinguished.

My Love From the Star, 2013

It would be hard to think of a punishment crueler than that of being excluded from society, and to be ignored by the members within that society. Humans are much weaker than expected, so they get excited or hurt deeply by the attitude and manner in which others treat them.

My Love From The Star, 2013

Now I have started to feel afraid because I have found someone I don't want to be forgotten by.

"Growing pains" by Beau Taplin

Awfully, we all learn
very early on
that a human being
can break you
in a few short, simple words.

Ariana Dancu

She made broken look beautiful

and strong look invincible.
She walked with the Universe
on her shoulders and made it
look like a pair of wings.

"Perfect You" by Elizabeth Scott

Things end. People leave. And you know what? Life goes on. 

Besides, if bad things didn't happen, 

how would you be able to feel 

the good ones?

Brigitte Nicole

Be with someone who is proud of you,
someone you can laugh with,
someone who listens to you,
understands you,
who treats you well
and makes you
a priority.

"An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness" by Kay Redfield Jamison

Others imply that they know what it is like to be depressed because they have gone through a divorce, lost a job, or broken up with someone. But these experiences carry with them feelings. Depression, instead, is flat, hollow, and unendurable. It is also tiresome. People cannot abide being around you when you are depressed. They might think that they ought to, and they might even try, but you know and they know that you are tedious beyond belief: you are irritable and paranoid and humorless and lifeless and critical and demanding and no reassurance is ever enough. You're frightened, and you're frightening, and you're “not at all like yourself but will be soon,” but you know you won't.

"Pink + White" by Frank Ocean

"Young God" by Ashe/ Halsey

He says, "Ooh, baby girl, you know we're gonna be legends
I'm a king and you're a queen and we will stumble through heaven
If there's a light at the end, it's just the sun in your eyes
I know you wanna go to heaven, but you're human tonight"

And I've been sitting at the bottom of a swimming pool
For a while now, drowning my thoughts out with the sounds

[...]

He says, "Oh, baby girl, don't get cut on my edges
I'm the king of everything and oh, my tongue is a weapon
There's a light in the crack that's separating your thighs
And if you wanna go to heaven you should fuck me tonight"

And I've been sitting at the bottom of a swimming pool
For a while now, drowning my thoughts out with the sounds

 

Stardust, 2007

I find the fastest way to travel is by candlelight.

-Tristan

"I Feel Like I'm Drowning" by Two Feet

"Love Is A Bitch" by Two Feet

"Go Fuck Yourself" by Two Feet

My Love from the Star, 2013

Hormone lügen nicht.

Coco J. Ginger

You live to destroy, as you were once destroyed. You live to kill.

"Salt" by Nayyirah Waheed

i don't pay attention to the
world ending.
it has ended for me
many times
and began again in the morning.

Elizabeth Gilbert

The women whom I love and admire for their strength and grace did not get that way because their shit worked out. They got that way because shit went wrong, and they handled it. They handled it a thousand different ways on a thousand different days, but they handled it. Those women are my superheroes.

Matt Healy

I'm just tired; I just want the world to be quiet for a bit.

I closed my eyes, felt the music as the melody got fused with my bloodstream, reached my heart and made me fall in love.

(found on tumblr)

Lynette Simeone

If you are short, perhaps you desire to be tall. If your hair is brown, you might want to dye it blonde. That is the problem with humans, we crave too much and appreciate too little. Desires leave us dreaming of a future that often never comes, while preventing us from appreciating the beauty of the moment.

Sometimes giving someone a second chance is like giving them an extra bullet for their gun because they missed you the first time.

Nikita Gill

They may
   defeat you,
   burn you,
   insult you,

   injure you,
   and abandon you,

but they
   will not
   shall not
   and cannot
   destroy you,

for you,
   like Rome,
   were built on ashes,
   and you,
   like a phoenix,
   know how to resurrect.

"Straßenbahn des Todes" von Element of Crime

Wo die Neurosen wuchern, will ich Landschaftsgärtner sein.

Be a girl with a mind, 

a woman with attitude 

and a lady with class

Bride of the Water God, 2017

Doctor Yoon's boyfriend is a pretty amazing person.
He's like a cruise ship among banana boats, so to speak.

Bride of the Water God, 2017

That night, the pain I felt all over my body, was carved into me.

"Glass Bridge" by Savina & Drones

"No Holding Back" by Kate Evangelista

Love is like acid in the veins. 

It eats you from the inside out until there is nothing left.

-Natasha Parker

T.S. Eliot

The purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink.

"The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald

You see I usually find myself among strangers because I drift here and there trying to forget the sad things that happened to me.

"Beloved" by Toni Morrison

He licked his lips. ‘Well, if you
want my opinion–’

‘I don’t,’ she said. ‘I have
my own.’

"What’s Wrong" by Pvris

I don't need
a metaphor
for you to know
I'm miserable.

Rome is build on ruins
and is quite breathtaking;
what makes you think
you can't be too?

Frank Ocean

Whatever you do, never run back to what broke you.

"Oh, Morning in the Burned House" by Margaret Atwood

Strange how we decorate pain.

Charlotte Eriksson

Take a shower, wash off the day. Drink a glass of water. Make 

the room dark. Lie down and close your eyes.
Notice the silence. Notice your heart. Still beating. Still fighting. 

You made it, after all. You made it, another day. And you can 

make it one more.
You're doing just fine.

liryae

There is literally nothing in nature that blooms all year long,
so do not expect yourself to do so.

(found on tumblr)

Caitlyn Paige

We're walking with our eyes on everyone else, ignoring the screams that come from the people buried alive underneath our feet. Yet we say we're here for each other and say we care. And we hypocritically wonder why everyone is walking passed our own screams as though we don't do the same.

Violet L. Risla

I’m lost in a desert of indifference,
and the only compass I have
is my beating heart.

"Trust" by Chris Mc Goewn

your words were beautiful
if only they didn't lose
their meaning
in your actions.

"Turtles All The Way Down" by John Green

...you tell yourself, I am not my thoughts,
even though deep down you’re not sure what exactly that makes you.
Then you tell yourself to click a little x in the top corner of the thought
to make it go away. And maybe it does for a moment;... .

C. S. Lewis

If I find in myself desires
which nothing in this world can satisfy,
the only logical explanation is
that I was made for another world.

"Cause and effect" by Charles Bukowski

the best often die by their own hand
just to get away,
and those left behind
can never quite understand
why anybody
would ever want to
get away
from
them

"The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath" by Sylvia Plath

I desire the things that will destroy me in the end.

Klaus Mikaelson, The Originals

From all the poems written on the subject of unrequited love,
there are so few on the pain of being the object of that affection.
The truth is, Hayley, it's not love on which the strongest foundations are built.
It's the decency of merciful lies.

Lemony Snicket

It is a lonely feeling when someone you care about becomes a stranger.

"Rückenwind" von LEA

https://open.spotify.com/track/37O8EdINn5y6nAO8qKY1lG
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJKmtK5PmSY

"Vakuum" von LEA

Mein Kopf ist voll und weil ich hier alleine bin
Hab' ich kein Problem mit mir selbst zu reden
Hab' nur ein Problem damit mich zu verstehen
Hab' 'n großes Problem damit mich zu verstehen

(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQHhnhPFwOc und
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ggcVl1hcbQ)

"Tanz" von Cassandra Steen

"Rise Up" by Andra Day

"‘Rise Up’ is a just a song about any type of relationship. I look at everyone, as we all are brothers and sisters, and we are all sort of a body working together. So ‘Rise Up’ is really about saying one piece isn't better than the other. When this part is struggling, I’m gonna help you, I'm gonna lift you up, I'll be there. If you're going through pain, I'll go through the pain with you. If you're celebrating, I'll celebrate with you. It's sort of just saying that I will rise up for you." -Andra Day

Hitman 47

Die Geschichte der Menschheit wird durch Kriege bestimmt.
Und die Kriege durch die Menschen, die sie führen.

"Bom Bidi Bom" by Nick Jonas ft. Nicki Minaj

Tom Hiddleston

The word ‘fuck’ is enormously satisfying.

AERIALS Large HUMPBACK WHALE Confused or Lost In Ventura Marina

https://www.instagram.com/p/BOMWsB3B01c/?taken-by=vagab

1MILLION 1st Concert / UP ALL NIGHT

Dance Dance Dance, 13.10.2017

Prince Damien: ...Ich bin selber eine Art Paradiesvogel. Ich war immer anders als die anderen.
               Und die Menschen machen es einem unglaublich schwer so zu sein wie man ist ohne
               dass man sich dabei schlecht fühlt.

Cale: ...Und ich brauche einfach so jemanden wie dich [Prince Damien]. Ich brauche einfach
      jemanden mit dem ich mich identifizieren kann. Ich  h a s s e  das Wort "Paradiesvogel".
      Weil wenn man uns das sagt "Oh, du bist ein Paradiesvogel", dann heißt das so ja "Du bist
      talentfrei und Hauptsache du glitzerst und das ist das, was du mitbringst". Und ich sage,
      "Guck mal, wo ich heute bin. Guck mal, wo du heute bist."

🐳 🐳 🐳

Celebrating the 1000th post on my blog!! :) ♡

The whale in the headline is the emoji I use to motivate friends & myself and to push me further, even & especially when things get hectic. Of course, he has a name: Whale Walter.

Der Wal im Post-Titel ist mein Motivationsemoji. Und er hat auch einen Namen: Wal Walter.

My first post/ mein erster Post: http://lumennoctivagum.blogspot.de/2014/07/there-is-charm-about-forbidden-that.html.

Take care!
Viele Grüße!
Maire St. Lou

"Zerbrechliche Dinge: Geschichten & Wunder" von Neil Gaiman

Und doch ist so vieles zerbrechlich,
die Menschen zerbrechen so leicht
und mit ihnen Träume und Herzen.

"Ride" by Cary Brothers

If I told you you were right
Would you take my hand tonight?
If I told you the reasons why
Would you leave your life and ride?

(listen on YouTube – SoundCloud)

"A Feast for Crows: A Song of Ice and Fire" by George R. R. Martin

My uncle always said that 

it was the sword in a man's hand 

that determined his worth, 

not the one between his legs.

"The Prince" by Niccolò Machiavelli

There is no other way to guard yourself against flattery 

than by making men understand 

that telling you the truth will not offend you.

"Für immer und immer" von Prinz Pi ft. BRKN

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYg36fTwEnY

Edgar Allan Poe

If a poem hasn't ripped apart your soul; you haven't experienced poetry.

Asami Sato, The Legend of Korra

People usually assume that 

I’m daddy's helpless little girl – but 

I can handle myself.

Tina Belcher, Bob’s Burgers (03x21)

I’m no hero. I put my bra on one boob at a time just like everyone else.

Emotions – they are part of our everyday lives.
We use them when we laugh with our friends or watch a funny video,
when we feel nervous about a date or a test grade.
But why do some of us get overwhelmed?
It gets to the point where some of us wish we didn't have certain emotions
because of how much they control us.
I wish I didn't feel sadness, anger, and anxiety but no matter what I do
they are always still there.
It's important to learn to control our emotions, to push them back to
where we can stay composed and not fall apart.
We must have emotions,
if we don't
then
we're
nothing.

(found on tumblr)

Introverts

https://www.quietrev.com/6-illustrations-that-show-what-its-like-in-an-introverts-head/

William C. Hannan

Sometimes,
all you can do
is lie in bed,
and hope
to fall asleep
before
you fall apart.

Robert Montgomery

I want to cry in your arms for a hundred years;

I want to wake up in your arms for a hundred years.

http://www.robertmontgomery.org/

Dorothy Parker

By the time you swear you're his,
Shivering and sighing.
And he vows his passion is,
Infinite, undying.
Lady make note of this --
One of you is lying.

Nikita Gill

You fell in love with a storm. Did you really think you would get out unscathed?

Nikita Gill

• You are not his princess; you are your own queen.
• You must understand: they fear you. There is nothing scarier in their minds than a girl who knows the power of her flames.

Nikita Gill

Your heart will fix itself. It's your mind you need to worry about. Your mind where you locked the memories, your mind where you have kept pieces of the ones that hurt you, that still cut through you like shards of glass. Your mind will keep you up at night, make you cry, destroy you over and over again. You need to convince your mind that it has to let go… because your heart already knows how to heal.

Nikita Gill

You are every beautiful thing that has ever happened to me wrapped in a person. You may think you are ordinary, but to me you are as magical as the ocean.

"A Man Without a Country" by Kurt Vonnegut

And I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, 'If this isn't nice, I don't know what is.'

Nikita Gill

Some days I am more wolf than woman,
and I am still learning how to stop apologizing for my wild.

Rupi Kaur

i want to apologize to all the women i have called beautiful
before i've called them intelligent or brave
i am sorry i made it sound as though
something as simple as what you're born with
is all you have to be proud of
when you have broken mountains with your wit
from now on i will say things like
you are resilient, or you are extraordinary
not because i don't think you're beautiful
but because i need you to know
you are more than that

Rules by Sun Tzu

• Rule: Know your enemy and know yourself, you will not be imperiled in a hundred battles. 
• Rule: If your opponent is of choleric temperament, seek to irritate him. 
• Rule: If the enemy leaves a door open, you must rush in. 
• Rule: Carefully compare the opposing army with your own, so that you may know where 
• strength is superabundant and where it is deficient. 
• Rule: In the practical art of war, the best thing of all is to take the enemy's country whole and intact. 
• Rule: Secret operations are essential in war; upon them the army relies to make its every move.

"Calvin and Hobbes" by Bill Watterson

http://www.gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/2012/05/24

Will Smith

Never underestimate the pain of a person, 

because in all honesty, everyone is struggling. 

Some people are just better at hiding it than others.

Bodyform Responds - The Truth

 

Clue

http://blog.helloclue.com

"Just One of Those Things" von Cole Porters

Wie sagte Abaelard zu Helïose:/

Schreib mal 'ne Zeile, Schweigen ist fies.

"Walk On Water" by 30STM

 

"Death Of A Bachelor" by Panic! At The Disco

Egyptian Prayer of Resurrection

Death is but the doorway to new life.
We live today, we shall live again.
In many forms shall we return.

(from "The Mummy", 2017)

Helen Rowland

A man is like a cat; 

chase him and he will 

run - sit still and ignore 

him and he'll come 

purring at your feet.

Lofi HipHop

"Ich liebe dich" in verschiedenen Sprachen

• Ich liebe dich. (German)
• I love you. (English) 
• Je t'aime. (French)
• Ti amo. (Italian)
• Te amo. / Te quiero. (Spanish)
• Te amo. (Latin)
• Te iubesc. (Romanian)

Du kannst nicht jeden 

glücklich machen, du bist 

ja kein Nutella-Glas.

"Paper Towns" by John Green

That's always seemed so ridiculous to me, that people want to be around someone because they're pretty. It's like picking your breakfast cereals based on color instead of taste.

Chaoze One

Manchmal lächel' ich,
denn es ist lächerlich,
Menschen wie dir nachzutrauern
und ich besser' mich.

"Ich fürchte mich nicht" von Tahereh Mafi

Ich durchsuche die Welt nach den richtigen Worten. Und habe nur ein 

großes Nichts auf der Zunge.

"One For Sorrow" by Christopher Barzak

Don't ever put your happiness in someone else's hands. 

They'll drop it. 

They'll drop it every time.

Make your heart the most beautiful thing about you.

Develop a strong opinion about yourself so that you are not deceived into believing what other people say about you.

"Wicked Game" by Ursine Vulpine ft. Annaca

Music by Peter Gundry

 

 

"Human" by Sevdaliza - Choreography by Galen Hooks - Filmed by @TimMilgram

"Late Fragment" by Raymond Carver

And did you get what
you wanted from this life, even so?
I did.
And what did you want?
To call myself beloved, to feel myself
beloved on the earth.

Chuck Palahniuk

What I want is to be needed. What I need is to be indispensable to somebody. Who I need is somebody that will eat up all my free time, my ego, my attention. Somebody addicted to me. A mutual addiction.

"Issues" by Julia Michaels

Listen On:

• YouTube: Audio Version
• YouTube: Video Version
• SoundCloud
• VEVO

Ich weiß gar nicht,

ob ich woanders hin will 

oder hier einfach nur weg muss.

Augusten Burroughs

The facts of life may be, at times, unbearably painful. But the core, the bones of life are generous beyond all reason or belief. Those things that ought to kill us do not. This should be taken as encouragement to continue.

"Alaska" von Casper

Und jetzt genau da, wo du liegst
Dein eigenes, kleines Alaska
So kalt, so verlassen und leer
Die Welt zwischen lüsternen Blicken und dem Klang vom Untergang
Deiner zitternden Lippen inmitten
Von "Alles wird Gut" und "Ich habe den Mut"
Steht ein "Bitte komm zurück" in der Farbe von Blut
Trotz dem Gefühl, dass ein Ende sich nähert
Schlägt es tapfer, dein emsiges Herz, da wo du liegst

Aus dem Bergeversetzen wurd' ein Meer von Komplexen
Im Verbergen Entsetzen, ein Wettbewerb im Verletzen
Vorm Gekehrten der letzten Scherben im Haus
Willst du zuhören, doch Schmetterlinge sterben so laut
Es is' ohne Leuchtturm alleine im Meer
Notsignale verloren, treiben umher in der Luft zwischen uns
Jede Träne, jeder Frage, die blieb
Neben mir, genau da wo du liegst

Und jetzt genau da, wo du fliehst
Vor'm eigenen kleinen Alaska
So weit, so weiß und leer
Die Welt voll mit steinernen Blicken
Und eisigen Winden, die das Atmen im Keim schon ersticken
Inmitten von werden und warten, und Entfernungen raten
Bleibt die Lüge vom Freisein ein Sterben auf Raten
Der Tanz von Echolot und Puls wenn er bebt
Malt dein Herz in den Spuren im Schnee, nun wo du gehst
Aus dem Lächeln und Tuscheln wurd' ein ätzendes Nuscheln
Nun anstelle von Kuscheln sinnloses Grenzen gepushe
Letzten Endes, im Grunde, Stress um Stress
Leuchtgeschosse vor deinen Augen brüll'n "SOS"
Und wieso? Wenn es doch stimmt, wie sich die Erde bewegt
Sind dann immer die gleichen Sterne zu sehen in der Luft zwischen uns
Jede Träne, jeder Frage, die blieb
Neben mir, genau da wo du liegst

Listen On Spotify

Werner Koczwara

Es kommt ja nicht von ungefähr, dass die ganzen Teleskope, die nach intelligentem Leben suchen, von der Erde weg gerichtet sind.

"Reise ans Ende der Nacht" von Louis-Ferdinand Céline

Reisen, das ist mal was Nützliches. Da kriegt die Fantasie zu tun.
Alles andere bringt nichts als Enttäuschungen und Mühsal.
Unsere Reise hier findet ganz und gar in der Fantasie statt.
Das ist ihre Stärke.

Sie führt vom Leben zum Tod. Menschen, Tiere, Städte und Dinge, alles
ist erdacht. Dies ist ein Roman, eine ganz und gar fiktive Geschichte.
Littré sagt das, und der irrt sich nie.

Und außerdem kann jeder es halten, wie er will.
Man braucht nur die Augen zuzumachen.

Es ist auf der anderen Seite des Lebens.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Man reist ja nicht
um anzukommen,
sondern um zu reisen.

Es gibt viel zu tun,
warten wir's ab.

Matthew Hussey

"The Hours Between" by Beau Taplin

The hours between 12am and 6am have a funny habit of making you feel like you're either on top of the world or under it.

Robert Green

In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments; there are consequences.

Mahatma Gandhi

Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed.

"Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic" by Sleeping At Last

Nick Diamos

Everybody lies, but it doesn't matter because nobody listens.

"Sorry" by Halsey

So I'm sorry to my unknown lover
Sorry that I can't believe
That anybody ever really
Starts to fall in love with me
Sorry to my unknown lover
Sorry I could be so blind
Didn't mean to leave you
And all of the things that we had behind

I run away when things are good
And never really understood
The way you laid your eyes on me
In ways that no one ever could
And so it seems I broke your heart
My ignorance has struck again
I failed to see it from the start
And tore you open 'til the end

"Herzstück" von Heiner Müller

Eins: Darf ich Ihnen mein Herz zu Füßen legen.

Zwei: Wenn Sie mir meinen Fußboden nicht schmutzig machen.

Eins: Mein Herz ist rein.

Zwei: Das werden wir ja sehen.

Eins: Ich kriege es nicht heraus.

Zwei: Wollen Sie, dass ich Ihnen helfe.

Eins: Wenn es Ihnen nichts ausmacht.

Zwei: Es ist mir ein Vergnügen. Ich kriege es auch nicht heraus.

Eins: heult.

Zwei: Ich werde es Ihnen herausoperieren. Wozu habe ich ein Taschenmesser. Das werden wir 

      gleich haben. Arbeiten und nicht verzweifeln. So, das hätten wir. Aber das ist ja ein   

      Ziegelstein. Ihr Herz ist ein Ziegelstein.

Eins: Aber es schlägt nur für Sie.

Adam Cromwell, UnREAL (2015)

I can offer you the world if you let me.
So let me.

“Comes the Dawn” by Veronica Shoffstall

After a while you learn the subtle difference
Between holding a hand and chaining a soul,
And you learn that love doesn't mean leaning
And company doesn't mean security,
And you begin to learn that kisses aren't contracts
And presents aren't promises,
And you begin to accept your defeats
With your head up and your eyes open
With the grace of a woman, not the grief of a child,
And you learn to build all your roads on today,
Because tomorrow's ground is too uncertain for plans,
And futures have a way of falling down in mid-flight.
After a while you learn
That even sunshine burns if you get too much.
So you plant your own garden and decorate your own soul,
Instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.
And you learn that you really can endure…
That you really are strong,
And you really do have worth.
And you learn and learn…
With every goodbye you learn.

Christopher Poindexter

Your darkness is a symphony

Played in explosions of silence to a crowd that has fallen in love with noise

If they refuse to applaud you
It isn't because your music isn't beautiful
It is because they have no idea how to love what they don't understand
And that, my darling, is the most horrific flaw in this mixed up world.

R.H. Sin

I usually become a ghost to
those who no longer deserve
my time. I've never seen a point
in explaining my absence to
someone who failed to
appreciate my presence. You
don't owe any explanations to
those who hurt you.

"Asking Too Much" by Andrea Gibson

See, I want to know the first time you felt the weight of hate,
and if that day still trembles beneath your bones.

"The Chaos of Longing" by K.Y. Robinson

There's a universe
swirling inside of you.

you have to learn to be
your own earth,
wind, fire
and water.

you are a natural
phenomenon -
not a natural disaster.

Pablo Neruda

I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.

Wolfgang Neuss

Heut' mach ich mir kein Abendbrot. Heut' mach ich mir Gedanken.

"Don't You Know" by Jaymes Young

 

Listen on SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/jaymes-young/dont-you-know.

John Lennon

I believe in everything until it's disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it's in your mind. Who's to say that dreams and nightmares aren't as real as the here and now?

Marya Hornbacher

In truth, you like the pain. You like it because you believe you deserve it.

"Blu" by Ryuichi Sakamoto & The Tokyo Philharmonic Orchestra

Dean Martin & Victor Borge

"De finibus bonorum et malorum" von Cicero

Neque porro quisquam est, qui dolorem ipsum, quia dolor sit, amet, consectetur, adipisci velit [...].

= Ferner gibt es auch niemanden, der den Schmerz um seiner selbst willen liebt, der ihn sucht und haben will, einfach, weil es Schmerz ist […].

"Clockwork Angel" by Cassandra Clare

Whatever you are physically...male or female, strong or weak, ill or healthy--
all those things matter less than what your heart contains.
If you have the soul of a warrior, you are a warrior.
All those other things, they are the glass that contains the lamp,
but you are the light inside.

–Jem Carstairs

"Kafka on the Shore" by Haruki Murakami

Nobody can help you. That's what love's all about... You're the one having these wonderful feelings, but you have to go it alone as you wander through the dark. Your mind and body have to bear it all. All by yourself.

"The Blue Octavo Notebooks" by Franz Kafka

The man in ecstasy and the man drowning–both throw up their arms.

Noor Shirazie

Touch me with words, and I shall come apart in your hands.

X Ambassadors - UNSTEADY | Official Dance Video #LoveisLove

Jessica Jones, 2015

If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the problem.

"Truth Is a Beautiful Thing" by London Grammar

To hold your heart, to hold your hand
Would be to me, the greatest thing
To hold your heart, hold your hand
Would be to me, the bravest thing

I wear another thought of you
With so much harm my gift to you
Hide you somewhere they don't know
Deep in my core you know you have a throne

Newt Scamander, Phantastische Tierwesen (2016)

Es ist meine Überzeugung, dass wer sich sorgt zwei Mal leidet.

Stephen King

Quiet people have the loudest minds.

"Be Nobody's Darling" by Alice Walker

Be nobody's darling;
Be an outcast.
Take the contradictions
Of your life
And wrap around
You like a shawl,
To parry stones
To keep you warm.
Watch the people succumb
To madness
With ample cheer;
Let them look askance at you
And you askance reply.
Be an outcast;
Be pleased to walk alone
(Uncool)
Or line the crowded
River beds
With other impetuous
Fools.

Make a merry gathering
On the bank
Where thousands perished
For brave hurt words
They said.

But be nobody's darling;
Be an outcast.
Qualified to live
Among your dead.

“Maybe” by Igor Oro

As I stand on the street corner and watch these two roads meet, I suddenly feel at peace. 

Maybe it's because at my feet lies the intersection of two distinct paths 

merging at a point of vulnerability. 

Maybe it's because it's a reminder of you and me, and the blissful bond we both shared. 

Without a care in the world, 

my arms wrapped around you to shelter you from the cold. 

Two souls kept warm by each other's company. 

Two hearts dancing in the rain playfully. 

Two minds with the same thing in mind. 

You want me to be yours and 

I want you to be mine. 

I don't know, maybe I'm crazy. 

Maybe time has finally outplayed me. 

Maybe I've stopped seeing beauty in the little things.

Maybe I've stopped appreciating the gift life brings. 

Maybe I'm in over my head. 

Or maybe I just miss the familiar contours of your body under the chalk white sheets of my bed. 

I don't know, maybe this is normal? 

Maybe I stopped being myself after you left. 

Maybe this is all a test. 

Maybe I failed and I couldn't clean up the mess. 

Maybe that's why the rain suddenly feels colder on my skin. 

Maybe that's why whenever I try to apologize I don't know where to begin or where to end. All these things I've typed up in my mind and I wanna tell you but I just can't bring myself to hit send. 

Maybe I fucked up and I won't admit it. 

Maybe I'm a coward. 

Seems like I've got all the time in the world, maybe I should do something about it. I mean, every minute without you feels like an hour. 

Maybe I'm a fool for distancing myself from you. 

Maybe that's why I couldn't admit that I loved you, 

because for some reason, 

I couldn't except that maybe, 

just maybe, 

you might have loved me too.

(first found here)

(Original YouTube  Video)

(also: Vimeo version)

"Letter to Fanny Browne" by John Keats, 8 July 1819

I have so much of you in my heart.

Paul Henri Spaak

Für verlorene Gelegenheiten gibt es kein Fundbüro.

Andrea Gibson

You are not weak just because your heart feels so heavy.

You are human, 

you are not weak for feeling things. 

So get angry, 

make people regret ever wronging you. 

Be happy: 

smile so bright that the sun is jealous. 

Be sad: 

crack, crumble, cry until your heart is no longer heavy.
Never let this cruel world 

steal your  s p a r k.

"Ocarina" by TV Blonde

"Delicate Dream" by Shana Halligan

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dByHpI0fF9Y

City of Stars, La La Land (2016)

 

Jon Stewart

I’m not going to censor myself to comfort your ignorance.

Brooklyn Life and Activities of Long Island Society, New York, May 23, 1925

   Costumer—"Do you serve lobsters
here?"
   Waiter—"We serve anybody; sit down."
                         —Public Service Magazine

"Lovely" by Ryoga

"Enough" by Mariët Mons

https://vimeo.com/193874255

"The Laughing Heart" by Charles Bukowski

your life is your life
don't let it be clubbed into dank submission.
be on the watch.
there are ways out.
there is a light somewhere.
it may not be much light but
it beats the darkness.
be on the watch.
the gods will offer you chances.
know them.
take them.
you can't beat death but
you can beat death in life, sometimes.
and the more often you learn to do it,
the more light there will be.
your life is your life.
know it while you have it.
you are marvelous
the gods wait to delight
in you.

"Veronika Decides to Die" by Paulo Coelho

Stop thinking all the time that you’re in the way, that you’re bothering the person next to you. If people don't like it, they can complain. And if they don’t have courage to complain, that’s their problem.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

For what it's worth... it's never too late, or in my case too early, to be whoever you want to be. There's no time limit. Start whenever you want. You can change or stay the same. There are no rules to this thing. We can make the best or the worst of it. I hope you make the best of it. I hope you see things that startle you. I hope you feel things you've never felt before. I hope you meet people who have a different point of view. I hope you live a life you're proud of, and if you're not, I hope you have the courage to start over again.

"Sein Name sei Peng" von Käptn Peng

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HgYNFH6QDSI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CboAukhfhQo

"Birth" by Thirty Seconds To Mars

I will save you from yourself
Time will change everything about this hell
Are you lost? Can't find yourself?
You're north of heaven

Maybe somewhere west of hell

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJ8uspgf7vs

"Parachute" by Jaymes Young

Sweetness
I can read your mind.
I see your skin turn red
When you lie.
If you don't wanna tell me nothing
Then you can go straight to hell.
Now I'm gonna tell you something
you fucked this up yourself.

I'm pullin' out my parachute
And I'm jumping from the plane we flew.
First I'm gonna tell the truth
But then I'm burning my bridge to you.

[...]

Don't lie
You're lying through your teeth.
And don't try to touch me
I'm afraid of your disease.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rfut_-POtGM

https://soundcloud.com/jaymes-young/parachute 

"One Last Time" by Jaymes Young

Could I feel your skin on mine
Before I have to say goodbye
Could I breathe, please, one last time
You in my lungs before I curl up
And die
All my world is losin' light

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHVBdutqSao

https://soundcloud.com/jaymes-young/one-last-time

"I'll be good" by Jaymes Young

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=scd-uNNxgrU
https://soundcloud.com/jaymes-young/ill-be-good

"I Found" by Amber Run

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yj6V_a1-EUA

Nietzsche

Man muss das Leben tanzen.

Manny, Swiss Army Man (2016)

But maybe everyone's a little bit ugly. Maybe we're all just dying sacks of shit, and maybe all it'll take is one person to just be okay with that, and then the whole world will be dancing and singing and farting, and everyone will feel a little bit less alone.

"Island" by Aldous Huxley

It's dark because you are trying too hard. Lightly child, lightly. Learn to do everything lightly. Yes, feel lightly even though you're feeling deeply. Just lightly let things happen and lightly cope with them. I was so preposterously serious in those days…Lightly, lightly – it's the best advice ever given me…to throw away your baggage and go forward. There are quicksands all about you, sucking at your feet, trying to suck you down into fear and self-pity and despair. That's why you must walk so lightly. Lightly my darling...

"The Fall" by Albert Camus

You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer 'yes' without having asked any clear question.

I am constantly torn between wanting to improve myself and wanting to destroy myself.

Nora Roberts

If you don't go after what you want, you'll never have it. If you don't ask, the answer is always no. If you don't step forward, you're always in the same place.

"Shields" by Jack Hawitt

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lqyrR1EywCg

https://soundcloud.com/jackhawitt/shields-from-credence

Sherlock Holmes, BBC Sherlock

Taking your own life. Interesting expression - taking it from who?
Once it's over, it's not you who'll miss it. Your own death is something that happens to everybody else.
Your life is not your own. Keep your hands off it.

Shakespeare

Though she
be but
little,
she is
fierce.

Emily Dickinson

Wenn dein Mut sich dir verweigert, dann übertriff deinen Mut.

Cheryl Strayed

Gott ist eine rücksichtslose Schlampe.

Stand up, warrior; you are not yet finished.
Beaten you may be, but broken?
Angels have fallen from greater heights
and survived, so why shouldn't you?
Never mind what you are made of;
you are more than this flesh that binds you.
There is nothing you have to fear
that should you not fear a thousand times more.
Your heart is a galaxy, and your soul is lined in stars.

You are something extraordinary, my dear.


(found on tumblr)

"The Song of the Lark" by Willa Cather

There are some things you learn best in
calm, and some in storm.

Tom Hiddleston

I suppose I'm fascinated by the private vulnerability and the exterior of people. I think that's an essential truth. I sort of quite like trying to find what makes people tick behind the construction of their identity.

Henry Miller

Every day we slaughter our finest impulses. That is why we get a heartache when we read those lines written by the hand of a master and recognize them as our own, as the tender shoots which we stifled because we lacked the faith to believe in our own powers, our own criterion of truth and beauty. Every man, when he gets quiet, when he becomes desperately honest with himself, is capable of uttering profound truths. We all derive from the same source. there is no mystery about the origin of things. We are all part of creation, all kings, all poets, all musicians; we have only to open up, only to discover what is already there.

Sometimes I tell myself I'm okay. I repeat it, like a mantra.

I'm okay, I'm okay, I'm okay, I'm okay.

Because I'm afraid if I stop, even for a moment, I will drown in all the reasons I am not.

(found on tumblr)

"Hi, I'm a virgin" by Izzy Inkpen

I'm taught chastity, not diversity.
Taught no, not possibility.
[...]
You're damn right my body is a temple,
And that won't change if I unlock the door.

(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6q_7YljktTE)

"Hi, I'm a slut" by Savannah Brown

You're damn right my body is a temple,
I am the god it was built for. I am the landlord
and I can let whoever I want live inside it.

(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6CCePrJlaU)

Jon Stewart

I'm not going to censor myself to comfort your ignorance.

Richey Edwards

I have a very childlike rage, and a very childlike loneliness.

Charles Orlando

Dear Strong Women:
You aren't intimidating,
he is intimidated.
There's a difference.

Mark Ryden

I find it so much easier to be creatively free at night. Daytime is for sleeping. Nighttime is the best time for making art. The later at night it gets the further into antoher world you go.

"The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern

I would have written you, myself, if I could put down in words everything I want to say to you. A sea of ink would not be enough. But you built me dreams instead.

"We are hard" by Margaret Atwood

A truth should exist,
it should not be used
like this. If I love you
is that a fact or a weapon?

"Until We Go Down" by Ruelle

they told you you're a nobody
so you became the queen/king
now everyone knows your name