#pressing

No - no - no!" someone was shouting. "No! Fred! No!" And Percy was shaking his brother, and Ron was kneeling beside them, and Fred's eyes stared without seeing, the ghost of his last laugh still etched upon his face. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#death #depressing #fred #harry-potter #j-k-rowling

why don't we go back out there and tell them what happened? because nothing happened except that everybody has been driven insane and stupid by life. in this society there are only two things that count: don't be caught without money and don't get caught high on any kind of high. (Night Streets of Madness) ↗

— Charles Bukowski

#life #life

...don't act like I didn't for you. I did. Hard. And for a long time. So please, forgive me if now that we're over, I'm exhausted. ↗

— Cecily von Ziegesar

#gossip-girl #sad #forgiveness

Because whipping an atlas at Jackson's head while he was flirt-touching that Frankie girl in geography would have been very satisfying. And beating him with the Eiffel Tower snowglobe while he kissed Cleo in French would have been tres cathartic. But she hadn't. Instead she'd been egg-like: a hard shell on the outside, and a runny mess on the inside. ↗

— Lisi Harrison

#crush #jealousy #repressing-emotions #school #jealousy

Every person has something meaningful to say in the conversation of life. ↗

— Bryant McGill

#expressing-yourself #life-lessons #life

From the moment we are born, we begin to die. ↗

— Janne Teller

#janne-teller #nothing #sadness #depression

I suppose for me as an artist it wasn't always just about expressing my work; I really wanted, more than anything else, to contribute in some way to the culture that I was living in. It just seemed like a challenge to move it a little bit towards the way I thought it might be interesting to go. ↗

— David Bowie

#always #anything #artist #bit #challenge

They place great stress on the clarity of our language for expressing nuances and showing subtleties. ↗

— Bernard Pivot

#expressing #great #language #nuances #our

The impact of the black audience is expressing itself. They look to films to be more expressive of their needs, their lives. Hollywood has gotten that message - finally. ↗

— Sidney Poitier

#black #expressing #expressive #films #finally

I never was very capable of expressing my feelings or emotions in words. I don't know whether this is the cause why I did it in music and also why I did it in painting. Or vice versa: That I had this way as an outlet. I could renounce expressing something in words. ↗

— Arnold Schoenberg

#capable #cause #could #did #emotions