wordsthat-speak:

“Your absence has gone through me like thread through a needle. Everything I do is stitched with its color.”

— Separation by W.S. Merwin

violentwavesofemotion:

“Too beautiful. Devastatingy beautiful.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche, from “Beyond Good and Evil,” (1886)

historyfilia:

“What do you think that Hercules would have been if there had not been such a lion, and hydra, and stag, and boar, and unjust and bestial men, whom Hercules used to drive away? And what would he have been doing? Is it not plain that he would have wrapped himself up and slept? In the first place, then, he would not have been Hercules, when he was dreaming away all his life in such luxury and ease.”

— Epictetus - Selections from Discourses
(via marcusalldaylius)

z-nogyrop:

there are only two genders: kill or be killed