#los

You’ll get over it…” It’s the clichés that cause the trouble. To lose someone you love is to alter your life for ever. You don’t get over it because ‘it” is the person you loved. The pain stops, there are new people, but the gap never loses. How could it? The particularness of someone who mattered enough to grieve over is not made anodyne by death. This hole in my heart is in the shape of you and no-one else can fit it. Why would I want them to? ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

#love #death

I guess by now I should know enough about loss to realize that you never really stop missing someone-you just learn to live around the huge gaping hole of their absence. ↗

— Alyson Noel

#evermore #immortals #loss #noel #live

And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom. ↗

— Anais Nin

#blossom #bud #came #day #more

Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time. ↗

— Thomas Merton

#enables #find #lose #ourselves #same

The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious - the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#philosophy #science #art

Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people we personally dislike. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#philosophy #attitude

A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#einstein #nature #philosophy #beauty

I have often regretted my speech, never my silence. ↗

— Simonides

#philosophical

Znao sam da je sve moje dovedeno u pitanje. Sve — to je veoma neodređeno, ali i veoma stvarno. To je izgubljenost i bespuće, to je ispadanje sa životne staze a druga ne postoji, to je osjećanje užasa bez imena, zbog praznine i gluhog prostora što bi se mogao stvoriti oko tebe. ↗

— Meša Selimović

#losing-everything #change

Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisioned by the enemy, don't we consider it his duty to escape?. . .If we value the freedom of mind and soul, if we're partisans of liberty, then it's our plain duty to escape, and to take as many people with us as we can! ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

#literature #philosophy #freedom