eleven minutes

There’s a loneliness that only exists in one’s mind. The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.

—F. Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby  (via fridasexual)

(Source: han-solo-dolo, via lavueltaaldiaenochentamundos)

This is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we have tried for something.

—Elizabeth Gilbert - Eat, Pray, Love

Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.

—Henry Rollins

And these fingertips will never run through your skin
And those bright blue eyes can only meet mine across the room
Filled with people that are less important than you

—Of Monsters And Men - Love Love Love

Es ist nicht schwer, Menschen zu finden, die mit 60 Jahren zehnmal so reich sind, als sie es mit 20 waren. Aber nicht einer von ihnen behauptet, er sei zehnmal so glücklich.

—George Bernard Shaw

Love will always and forever break your heart.

—Augustus Hill, Oz: Behind These Walls: The Journal of Augustus Hill

i don’t ask you to love me always like this,
but i ask you to remember.
somewhere inside me
there’ll always be the person
i am tonight.

—F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender is the Night

She was a genius of sadness, immersing herself in it, separating its numerous strands, appreciating its subtle nuances. She was a prism through which sadness could be divided into its infinite spectrum.

—Jonathan Safran Foer

(Source: quotewhore)

I’ve never forgotten him. Dare I say I miss him? I do. I miss him. I still see him in my dreams. They are nightmares mostly, but nightmares tinged with love. Such is the strangeness of the human heart. I still cannot understand how he could abandon me so unceremoniously, without any sort of goodbye, without looking back even once. That pain is like an axe that chops at my heart.

—Piscine Molitor Patel, Life of Pi, Yann Martel (via nubivagantmusings)

(Source: quote-book)