Alessandro Teoldi

Why are you in despair, O my soul?

And why have you become disturbed within me?

Hope in God, for I shall yet praise Him,

The help of my countenance and my God.

Psalm‬ ‭42‬:‭11‬

— Danez Smith, from "summer, somewhere" (via lunamonchtuna)

Ilya Kaminsky, from "Alfonso Stands Answerable", Deaf Republic

Simone de Beauvoir, from a diary entry featured in Diary of a Philosophy Student

“I have so much to say to you that l am afraid I shall tell you nothing.”

Fyodor Dostoevsky

— virginia woolf , carlyle's house and other sketches (via letsbelonelytogetherr)

Franz Kafka, from a letter to Milena Jesenka featured in "Letters to Milena,

Joy Sullivan, "Ghost Heart", Instructions for Traveling West

Guandalupe Nettel, from her novel titled "Stillborn," originally published in 2020

— Khalil Gibran