"It was true that I didn’t have much ambition, but there ought to be a place for people without ambition, I mean a better place than the one usually reserved. How in the hell could a man enjoy being awakened at 6:30 a.m. by an alarm clock, leap out of bed, dress, force-feed, shit, piss, brush teeth and hair, and fight traffic to get to a place where essentially you made lots of money for somebody else and were asked to be grateful for the opportunity to do so?"
— Charles Bukowski (via ticktockdeathclock)
(Source: undeadlife, via wastedseductions)
"I exist, that is all, and I find it nauseating."
— Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea (via imfantasyparade)
(Source: quote-book, via bonedust)
"… For the price of a modest meal you can ponder the decline and fall of the Roman Empire, the origin of species, the interpretation of dreams, the nature of things. Books are like seeds. They can lie dormant for centuries and then flower in the most unpromising soil."
— Carl Sagan, on the popularization of modestly-priced paperback books (via euphoria-corpses)
(via bonedust)
"The world only exists in your eyes…You can make it as big or as small as you want."
— F. Scott Fitzgerald (via cordisre)
"I don’t understand why when we destroy something created by man we call it vandalism, but when we destroy something by nature we call it progress."
— Ed Begley Jr (via desert-dreamer)
(Source: itsthemusicpeople, via poeticaddiction)
"The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time."
— Mark Twain (via absea)
(Source: quote-book, via absea)
"The mind is sharper and keener in seclusion and uninterrupted solitude. No big laboratory is needed in which to think. Originality thrives in seclusion free of outside influences beating upon us to cripple the creative mind. Be alone, that is the secret of invention; be alone, that is when ideas are born. That is why many of the earthly miracles have had their genesis in humble surroundings."
— Tesla (via justoneoftheflies)
(via fuckyeahsolitude)
"
All the misery on the planet arises due to a personalized sense of “me” or “us.” That covers up the essence of who you are. When you are unaware of that inner essence, in the end you always create misery. It’s as simple as that. When you don’t know who you are, you create a mind-made self as a substitute for your beautiful divine being and cling to that fearful and needy self.
Protecting and enhancing that false sense of self then becomes your primary motivating force.
"— Eckhart Tolle (via illuminatedbeing)
"People fall so in love with their pain, they can’t leave it behind. The same as the stories they tell. We trap ourselves."
— Chuck Palahniuk (via chuckpalahniukquotes)
(via thinksquad)
"The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any."
— Alice Walker (via thinksquad)
