July 2011
“la tristesse durera toujours”
– the sadness will endure forever
remembered by Theo van Gogh as the last words spoken by his brother, Vincent. 29 July 1889: Auvers-sur-Oise.
[E.H. du Quesne-Van Gogh, Vincent van Gogh. Herinneringen aan haar broeder (1923).]
(via snow-fox)
“Write hard and clear about what hurts.”
– Ernest Hemingway (via thatquote)
“However distasteful is the bitterness of patience, it will eventually taste...”
– Rumi (via myfaithmyfreedom)
c / e: thirst for love →
Saying life is hard is nothing to brag about. The power we have to find all difficulties in life helps to make life easy for the majority of men. If we didn’t have that power, life would be something without simplicity or or difficulty - a slippery, empty sphere without a foothold.
This power…
“You will need a bottle of cloud
for anesthesia.
Like the flight of a crane...”
– Carolyn Forché, from The Ghost of Heaven (thank you, orioninacobweb, secretfragileskies & puddlenotes)
