December 2010
41 posts
Opti-Pess.
yen-yaw:
Forced optimism is still pessimism. Looking for the good in the world (as if it doesn’t already exist) is not healthy. Knowing there is good in the world and not having to physically see it on a daily basis; that’s optimism.
“Whatever happened to chivalry? Does it only exist in 80’s movies? I want John...”
– Olive Penderghast, Easy A (via jmaclikewoah)
“The real damage is done by those millions who want to ‘survive.’ The honest men...”
– Sophie Scholl: Die letzten Tage (2005). Quote from Sophie Scholl, a student leader of the peaceful anti-government resistance group the White Rose in 1940s Germany. She was a biology major at the University of Munich. She was beheaded by the National Socialists in February, 1943. (via whakahekeheke)
“That life is difficult, I have often bitterly realized. I now had further cause...”
– Excerpt from Gertrude by Herman Hesse. (via fuckyeahexistentialism)
And so I looked up, and saw that familiar dark cloud over my head. “Long time, no see” I said to the cloud, “can’t say I missed you.” And down came the rain.
“Too much love will kill you.”
