random quotes

“All this buttoning and unbuttoning”

“And there's too much going on
But it's calm under the waves
In the blue of my oblivion” — Fiona Apple

"I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am. I am. I am." — Sylvia Plath

“I am constantly trying to communicate something incommunicable, to explain something inexplicable, to tell about something I only feel in my bones and which can only be experienced in those bones. Basically it is nothing other than this fear we have so often talked about, but fear spread to everything, fear of the greatest as of the smallest, fear, paralyzing fear of pronouncing a word, although this fear may not only be fear but also a longing for something greater than all that is fearful.” — Franz Kafka

"Quanto mais fundamente penso, mais profundamente me descompreendo." — Fernando Pessoa

“Human beings are funny. They long to be with the person they love but refuse to admit openly. Some are afraid to show even the slightest sign of affection because of fear. Fear that their feelings may not be recognized, or even worst, returned. But one thing about human beings puzzles me the most is their conscious effort to be connected with the object of their affection even if it kills them slowly within.” — Sigmund Freud

"Sou cada pedaço infernal de mim." — Clarice Lispector

“Talking nonsense is the sole privilege mankind possesses over the other organisms. It's by talking nonsense that one gets to the truth! I talk nonsense, therefore I'm human” ― Fyodor Dostoevsky

The cat asked, “Where do you want to go?” “I don’t know,” Alice answered. “Then,” said the cat, “it really doesn’t matter, does it?” ― Lewis Carroll

“Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.” ― Mary Shelley