June 2013
6 posts
“Suddenly you’re ripped into being alive. And life is pain, and life is suffering, and life is horror, but my god you’re alive and its spectacular.”
—Joseph Campbell (via jaimelannister)
“No one in my family, not one of my friends or classmates realized that I was going through life asleep.
It was literally true: I was going through life asleep. My body had no more feeling than a drowned corpse. My very existence, my life in the world, seemed like a hallucination. A strong wind would make me think my body was about to be blown to the end of the earth, to some land I had never seen or heard of, where my mind and body would separate forever. ‘Hold tight,’ I would tell myself, but there was nothing for me to hold on to.” —Haruki Murakami, Sleep (via jaimelannister)
It was literally true: I was going through life asleep. My body had no more feeling than a drowned corpse. My very existence, my life in the world, seemed like a hallucination. A strong wind would make me think my body was about to be blown to the end of the earth, to some land I had never seen or heard of, where my mind and body would separate forever. ‘Hold tight,’ I would tell myself, but there was nothing for me to hold on to.” —Haruki Murakami, Sleep (via jaimelannister)
May 2013
13 posts
“Take what the Lightbearer sends and be thankful.”
—Lynn Flewelling, Traitor’s moon
“[This is not the scene I dreamed of.] Like much else nowadays I leave it feeling stupid, like a man who lost his way long ago but presses on along a road that may lead nowhere.”
—J. M. Coetzee, from Waiting for the Barbarians (via the-final-sentence)
