I never met another man I’d rather be. And even if that’s a delusion, it’s a lucky one.
—Charles Bukowski (via nyx-nb)
(Source: myquotelibrary, via nyx-nb)
I mean, they say you die twice. One time when you stop breathing and a second time, a bit later on, when somebody says your name for the last time.
—Banksy (via nyx-nb)
(Source: saddest-summer, via nyx-nb)
The soul is born, he said vaguely, first in those moments I told you of. It has a slow and dark birth, more mysterious than the birth of the body. When the soul of a man is born in this country there are nets flung at it to hold it back from flight. You talk to me of nationality, language, religion. I shall try to fly by those nets.
—James Joyce (via nyx-nb)
(Source: merrycrassmas, via nyx-nb)
a killing unhappiness:
never knowing
what you might have
been.
—Charles Bukowski (via nyx-nb)
(Source: henrycharlesbukowski, via nyx-nb)
We are like roses that have never bothered to
bloom when we should have bloomed and
it is as if
the sun has become disgusted with
waiting
—Charles Bukowski (via dirtcrumbgoddess)
(Source: freyjageist, via nyx-nb)
Greater men than I have failed to agree with life.
—Charles Bukowski (via henrycharlesbukowski)
(via nyx-nb)
Anything, anything to stop drowning in this dull, trivial and cowardly existence.
—Charles Bukowski (Ham on Rye). (via nyx-nb)
(Source: laurachase, via nyx-nb)
One must be a sea, to receive a polluted river and not be defiled.
—Friedrich Nietzsche - Thus Spoke Zarathustra (via arcanereference)
(via nyx-nb)
Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
—Nietzsche (via youarenotrational)
(via nyx-nb)
To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering.
—Friedrich Nietzsche (via mafons)
(Source: marfinesse, via nyx-nb)
The Universe always strikes at your weakest point because that’s what most needs strengthening.
—Chris Prentiss (via nyx-nb)
(Source: commondense, via nyx-nb)
there are
all kinds
of
crazies
some more
talented
in their
ways
than the
overnumerous
duly
dully
sane.
—Charles Bukowski (via henrycharlesbukowski)
(via nyx-nb)
Freedom is just another word for having nothing left to lose.
—Kris Kristofferson (via human-voices)
(via nyx-nb)
we have come
so far
and gone
nowhere.
we have lived
so long
and
hardly
at all
—Charles Bukowski (via henrycharlesbukowski)
(via nyx-nb)
When did the future switch from being a promise to a threat?
—Chuck Palahniuk (via human-voices)
(Source: journalofanobody, via nyx-nb)
