Jarod Kintz
If I had no clothes it’d be winter. If I were naked, it’d be the truth and we could lie together. ― Jarod Kintz, This Book is Not For Sale (May 18, 2011)
Category: Aphorism
Emil M. Cioran
Any and all water is the color of drowning. — Emil M. Cioran, All Gall Is Divided: Aphorisms. (Arcade Publishing August 25, 1999) Originally published 1952.
Vineet Raj Kapoor
YOU CAN NEVER DIE IN DIGNITY. KEEP LIVING. ― Vineet Raj Kapoor, UNCHESS: Untie Your Shoes and Walk on the Chessboard of Life. (Amazon, May 18, 2017)
William Leal
It’s all messy: The hair. The bed. The Words. The Heart. Life… — William Leal
Cecil Thounaojam
Only tears can understand the joy of sorrow. ― Cecil Thounaojam
Rabindranath Tagore
Fireflies My fancies are fireflies, —Specks of living lighttwinkling in the dark. The voice of wayside pansies,that do not attract the careless glance,murmurs in these desultory lines. In the drowsy dark caves of the minddreams build their nest with fragmentsdropped from day’s caravan. Spring scatters the petals of flowersthat are not for the fruits of… Continue reading Rabindranath Tagore
Franz Kafka
You can hold back from the suffering of the world, you have permission to do so, and it is in accordance with your nature. But perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering that you could have avoided. — Franz Kafka, Aphorisms (1918)
William Stafford
Maybe our needs are deeper than our appetites. — William Stafford, Sound of the Ax: Aphorisms and Poems, eds. Paul Merchant and Vincent Wixon (University of Pittsburg Press, 2014)
Unknown
There are two types of waiting. There’s the the waiting you do for something you know is coming, sooner or later—like waiting for the 6:28 train, or the school bus, or a party where a certain handsome boy might be. And then there’s the waiting for something you don’t know is coming. You don’t even… Continue reading Unknown
Antonio Porchia
We become aware of the void as we fill it. ― Antonio Porchia
The Vale of Soul-Making 