#hip

I like solitude. It is when you truly hear and speak your natural, unadulterated mind, and out comes your most stupid self as well as your most intelligent self. It is when you realize who you are and the extents of the good and the evils which you are capable of. ↗

— Criss Jami

#censorship #evil #extensive #extremes #good

Better guilt than the terrible burden of freedom and responsibility. ↗

— Ernest Becker

#guilt #relationships #death

Colin believed that the world contained exactly two kinds of people: Dumpers and Dumpees. A lot of people will claim to be both, but those people miss the point entirely: You are predisposed to either one fate or the other. Dumpers may not always be the heartbreakers, and the Dumpees may not always be the heartbroken." (1) breakup, (2) divorce, or (3) death. ↗

— John Green

#death

It avoids a self-conscious relationship to the act. We live in the most self-conscious society in the history of mankind. There are good things in that, but there are also terrible things. The worst of it is, that we find it hard to give ourselves to the cultural process. ↗

— Larry Harvey

#also #avoids #cultural #find #give

Most of us wander in and out of one another's lives until not death, but distance, does us part--time and space and the heart's weariness are the blander executioners of human connection. ↗

— Gail Caldwell

#death

My relationship to reality has been so utterly skewed for so long that I don't even notice it any more. It's just my reality. ↗

— Ethan Hawke

#been #even #i #just #long

A sailing ship is no democracy; you don't caucus a crew as to where you'll go anymore than you inquire when they'd like to shorten sail. ↗

— Sterling Hayden

#caucus #crew #democracy #go #inquire

I don't know, I feel like as time has gone on, hip-hop has become really redundant and repetitive. ↗

— Angel Haze

#feel #gone #hip-hop #i #i feel

The dupe of friendship, and the fool of love; have I not reason to hate and to despise myself? Indeed I do; and chiefly for not having hated and despised the world enough. ↗

— William Hazlitt

#despise #despised #dupe #enough #fool

For me to stay healthy in a relationship, the individuals have to nurture themselves. ↗

— Anne Heche

#individuals #me #nurture #relationship #stay