They bear him to his resting-place
In slow procession sweeping by;
I follow at a stranger’s space;
His kindred they, his sweetheart I.
Unchanged my gown of garish dye,
Though sable-sad is their attire;
But they stand round with griefless eye,
Whilst my regret consumes like fire!
Thomas Hardy, “She At His Funeral”
Open your mind, examine your options, and your heart will lead you through the storm.
If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning.
Watching you walk out of my life does not make me bitter or cynical about love. It makes me realize that if I wanted so much to be with the wrong person how beautiful it will be when the right one comes along.
Fog-wrapped June days spent on the coast are pretty hard to beat.
He was smart, but a bit dull and unsure of himself. She was adventurous and wanted to give love. It could have worked, had both parties made compromises, but he was too comfortable in his ways and she wanted more out of life. The reality is, it was doomed from the start.
At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.
Sometimes, when you look back on an event, you wonder how you didn’t see it coming. You’re curious as to how you could have missed the signs, why you didn’t get the hints. And then you realize that there was nothing you could have done, and it really wasn’t your fault in the first place. Some people need to make their own mistakes to learn a lesson. Take comfort in the fact that one day, down the road, people who have wronged you will look back and think “Wow, I can’t believe I let someone so amazing out of my life.”
The Black Angels - Black Grease
“Unclose your mind. You are not a prisoner. You are a bird in flight, searching the skies for dreams.”
Haruki Murakami, Hard-boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
