November 2011
117 posts
“Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.”
—Carl Sagan (via kari-shma)
“Among the men of the rabble I had become a creature of a strange, unknown race, so much so that they had forgotten that I had once been part of their world.”
—Sadegh Hedayat, translated by D P Costello, The Blind Owl (via only-a-voice)
“There was complete silence everywhere. I felt that all mankind had rejected me and I took refuge with inanimate things. I was conscious of a relationship between me and the pulsation of nature, between me and the profound night which had descended upon my spirit. This silence is a language which we do not understand.”
—Sadegh Hedayat, The Blind Owl (via touba)
“Have you ever lost someone you love and wanted one more conversation, one more chance to make up for the time when you thought they would be here forever? If so, then you know you can go your whole life collecting days, and none will outweigh the one you wish you had back.”
—Mitch AlbomĀ (via black-wolves)