“Love empowers us to live fully and die well. Death becomes, then, not an end to life but a part of living.”
― bell hooks, Dead at 69
Quotes
Being in Delusion
“You go home and invent a story about me, and now you can’t separate me from the person you’ve imagined me to be. You call that, I suppose, being in love; as a matter of fact, it’s being in delusion.”
― Virginia Woolf, Night and Day
Without Choosing
“We are born without choosing to, to parents we haven’t chosen, into bodies and borders we haven’t chosen, to exist in a region of spacetime we haven’t chosen for a duration we don’t choose.”
— Maria Popova, Becoming the Marginalian: After 15 Years, Brain Pickings Reborn – The Marginalian
All By Myself
“I’m beginning to know myself. I don’t exist. I’m the space between what I’d like to be and what others made of me. Just let me be at ease and all by myself in my room.”
— Fernando Pessoa
Parched and Barren
“If you keep shining the neon light of analysis and accountability on the tender tissue of your belonging, you make it parched and barren.”
— John O’Donohue, Anam Ċara (via Erica Avey)
Love and Justice
“Justice between people is perhaps the most important connection people can have.”
“There can be no love without justice.”
A Clear Definition
“Had I been given a clear definition of love earlier in my life it would not have taken me so long to become a more loving person. Had I shared with others a common understanding of what it means to love it would have been easier to create love.”
Miserable in Love
“Before you become miserable in love, remember: not every beautiful thing is meant for you. Sometimes the grown-up thing to do is ooh & ahh & walk away.”
— Claudia Dawson, “Every beautiful thing“
Above an Abyss
“The cradle rocks above an abyss, and common sense tells us that our existence is but a brief crack of light between two eternities of darkness.”
— Vladamir Nabokov (via WeCroak)
A Body
“the distance between two bodies is
itself a body too.”
— Abbas Beydoun, The Distance Between Two Boats
Lisa Marie Blair 