It is tiring and unhealthy

to lose your Saturday afternoons: but to have them free because you don't matter, that is much worse.

C.S. Lewis, The inner ring

Being taken seriously

means missing out on the chance to be taken frivolously.

– a paraphrase of J. Jack Halberstam, The Queer Art of Failure

Polluted

by the imagination of money.

– Patrick Nathan, Dirt: Step inside the unusual meme machine

Everything beams with so much common sense

and leaves him dazzled.

– Joseph Roth

Tyrants conduct monologues,

above a million solitudes.

– Camus

From violence

everything originates. 

A language

for grief. 

What's the point of truth

if it destroys hope?

– AJ Daulerio

Let heaven exist, though my place be in hell.

Let me be outraged and annihilated, but for one instant, in one being, let Your enormous Library be justified.

– Luis Borges, The library of babel

I want to sift through your fingers,

to vanish, to be unseen.

– Isabel Fall, How twitter can ruin a life

Human minds

are the universe’s only instruments for reflecting on itself. 

– Peter Schjeldahl, The art of dying

We invite in

what we expect.

– Edwin Markham, "Americanitis" – the national disease

The problem

is when things are good.