#so

I personally apologize to any person who felt anything less than respected and valued by myself. ↗

— Kevin Shelley

#anything #apologize #felt #i #less

But I am a blasted tree; the bolt has entered my soul; and I felt then that I should survive to exhibit what I shall soon cease to be - a miserable spectacle of wrecked humanity, pitiable to others and intolerable to myself. ↗

— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

#blasted #bolt #cease #entered #exhibit

I am very averse to bringing myself forward in print, but as my account will only appear as an appendage to a former production, and as it will be confined to such topics as have connection with my authorship alone, I can hardly accuse myself of a personal intrusion. ↗

— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

#accuse #alone #am #appear #appendage

In the past, some of the songs that were the most fun, and the most entertaining and rocking, fell by the wayside because I was concerned with what I was going to say and how I was going to say it. ↗

— Bruce Springsteen

#concerned #entertaining #fell #fun #going

In Letters to a Young Poe, Rilke says, 'The highest form of love is to be the protector of another person's solitude.' That's what I want. For other people to love each other without having to partake in them, to possess them, to allow them to be their own inside their solitude, to protect that. I wish people respected each other's aloneness. I wish I could write something very beautiful and erotic without worrying about people wanting to use me to fulfill some fantasy--which I have no control over, and often, has nothing to do with me--inside themselves. ↗

— Kristen Kosmas

#beauty

Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye. ↗

— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

#eye #fix #intellectual #may #mind

It is a farce to call any being virtuous whose virtues do not result from the exercise of it's own reason. ↗

— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

#being #call #exercise #farce #own

The same energy of character which renders a man a daring villain would have rendered him useful in society, had that society been well organized. ↗

— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

#character #daring #energy #had #him

We look before and after, And pine for what is not; Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught; Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought. ↗

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

#before #fraught #laughter #look #our

Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought. ↗

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

#saddest #songs #sweetest #tell #those