Hopeless-romantics - Hopeless Romantics

— v, excerpts from a book i’ll never write #2 (via letsbelonelytogetherr)

— Franz Kafka

i honestly don’t have faith in finding something super special with someone else because this generation is so far detached from their own emotions as well as others. and not all are detached because of being hurt, a lot of people have acted detached and nonchalant to seem cool. they’ve settled so far into fake emotions that they’ve made a problem for themselves and others while pretending so hard they became it. it’s not cool to act detached. it’s not cool to act nonchalant. that is how you miss some of your greatest connections. as someone who has actually been hurt before, this facade put on is dreadful.

Nicholas Christopher, from a poem titled "Walt Whitman at the Reburial of Poe," featured in A Century of Poetry in the New Yorker

real sufferers don't let anyone know. even themselves.

Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy, Book 1 “Inferno,” Canto 5 [tr. James (2013)]

Be teachable. You’re not always right.

my fear of abandonment? well that comes from my experience of being abandoned

Oscar Wilde, from a letter featured in The Selected Letters of Oscar Wilde