“We Look Up At The Same Stars, And See Such Different Things.”

“Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.”

—

Nathaniel Hawthorne

“I let it go. It’s like swimming against the current. It exhausts you. After a while, whoever you are, you just have to let go, and the river brings you home.”

— Joanne Harris (via quotemadness)

Mahmoud Darwish, tr. by Sinan Antoon, from “In The Presence of Absence,”

Kim Addonizio, from "'Round Midnight'", What Is This Thing Called Love

“Life is that which must overcome itself again and again.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“Envy is nothing else but hatred, in so far as it is disposing a man to rejoice in another’s hurt, and to grieve at another’s advantage.”

— Baruch Spinoza, Ethics

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, from a letter to Jane Williams written in February 1823, featured in The Letters of Mary Shelley

Edith Sitwell, Fire of the Mind: The Complete Anthology of Edith Sitwell

Albert Camus, The Fall Originally published: 1956

Louise Glück, From Descending Figure; “The Garden”