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Vladimir Mayakovsky, from a letter featured in "Love in the Heart of Everything; The Correspondence between Vladimir Mayakovsky & Lili Brik, 1915-1930,"

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Fernando Pessoa, A Little Larger Than the Entire Universe: Selected Poems

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Caterina Chistiakova

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Nicole W. Lee, from "Even the Dust"

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“Life is such a strange thing… Even after certain things have happened to them, no matter how awful the experience, people still go on eating and drinking, going to the toilet and washing themselves — living, in other words. And sometimes they even laugh out loud. And they probably have these same thoughts, too, and when they do it must make them cheerlessly recall all the sadness they’d briefly managed to forget.”

— Han Kang, The Vegetarian

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“Behind the depressing silence of the sea, the silence of God…. the feeling that while men raise their voices in anguish God remains with folded arms, silent.”

— Shūsaku Endō, Silence

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“You hold an absence at your center, as if it were a life.”

— Richard Brostoff, from “Grief,” A Few Forms of Love (Finishing LIne Press, 2012)(via soracities)

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don't forget to wake up sick to your stomach tomorrow

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The End of  the Ball (detail), Rogelio de Egusquiza

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Simone de Beauvoir, from a letter to Jean-Paul Sartre (Paris, 21 February 1941)

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Nanna Susi (Finnish, 1967), It has always been, 2010. Oil on canvas, 60 x 60 cm.

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Leila Chatti, from "Postcard from Gone"