quotes – Page 26 – סלומה

Society, as we have constituted it, will have no place for me, has none to offer; but Nature, whose sweet rains fall on unjust and just alike, will have clefts in the rocks where I may hide, and secret valleys in whose silence I may weep undisturbed. She will hang the night with stars so that I may walk abroad in the darkness without stumbling, and send the wind over my footprints so that none may track me to my hurt: she will cleanse me in the great waters, and with bitter herbs make me whole.

Oscar Wilde

“When I am with you, we stay up all night.
When you’re not here, I can’t go to sleep.
Praise God for those two insomnias!
And the difference between them.”
― Rumi

How hard it is to sleep
in the middle of life.

Audre Lorde, from The Electric Slide Boogie

1. Rub honey into the night’s back.
2. Make sure the moon is fed.
3. Bathe the ocean.
4. Warm sing the trees.

Tend, Nayyirah Waheed

In all chaos there is a cosmos.
In all disorder a secret order.

Carl Jung

Give your daughters difficult names. Give your daughters names that command the full use of tongue. My name makes you want to tell me the truth. My name doesn’t allow me to trust anyone that cannot pronounce it right.

Warsan Shire

I stopped looking for a Dream Girl, I just wanted one that wasn’t a nightmare.

Charles Bukowski

If there is a God, He will have to beg my forgiveness.

A phrase that was carved on the walls of a concentration camp cell during WWII by a Jewish prisoner.

Have a mind that is open to everything, and attached to nothing.

Tilopa

I admire addicts. In a world where everybody is waiting for some blind, random disaster or some sudden disease, the addict had the comfort of knowing what will most likely wait for him down the road. He’s taken some control over his ultimate fate, and his addiction keeps the cause of his death from being a total surprise. In a way, being an addict is very proactive. A good addiction takes the guesswork out of death. There is such a thing as planning your getaway.

Chuck Palahniuk