Just as a slow series of clicks when speeded up will lose the definition of each individual click and gradually take on the quality of a sustained and rising tone, so a series of individual impressions here took on the quality of a sustained emotion - and yet not an emotion. If it was an emotion, it was a totally emotionless one. It was hatred, implacable hatred. It was cold, not like ice is cold, but like a wall is cold. It was impersonal, not as a randomly flung fist in a crowd is impersonal, but like a computer-issued parking summons is impersonal. And it was deadly - again, not like a bullet or a knife is deadly, but like a brick wall across a motorway is deadly.
And just as a rising tone will change in character and take on harmonics as it rises, so again, this emotionless emotion seemed to rise to an unbearable if unheard scream and suddenly seemed to be a scream of guilt and failure.
And suddenly it stopped.
They were left standing on a quiet hilltop on a tranquil evening.
Douglas Adams, Life, the Universe and Everything (via litreferential)
And just as a rising tone will change in character and take on harmonics as it rises, so again, this emotionless emotion seemed to rise to an unbearable if unheard scream and suddenly seemed to be a scream of guilt and failure.
And suddenly it stopped.
They were left standing on a quiet hilltop on a tranquil evening.
Douglas Adams, Life, the Universe and Everything (via litreferential)
via litreferential
Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.
Oscar Wilde (via su3dehead)
Oscar Wilde (via su3dehead)
via be4con-deactivated20120812
Auschwitz begins whenever one looks at a slaughterhouse and thinks: they’re ONLY animals.
Vegan Theodore Adorno (via embraceentropy)
Vegan Theodore Adorno (via embraceentropy)
via embraceentropy
I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year’s fashion.
— Lillian Hellman (via yepimvegan)
What the fuck is this supposed to mean?
via granola-punk-deactivated2012071
And then I found how to be what you want
when I was out looking for something new Marilyn Manson (Breaking The Same Old Ground)
when I was out looking for something new
Marilyn Manson (Breaking The Same Old Ground)
via braininthelunchbox
The telling of jokes is an art of its own, and it always rises from some emotional threat. The best jokes are dangerous, and dangerous because they are in some way truthful.
Kurt Vonnegut (via hellomrdemocracy)
Kurt Vonnegut (via hellomrdemocracy)
via hellomrdemocracy
May the merciful gods, if indeed there be such, guard those hours when no power of the will, or drug that the cunning of man devises, can keep me from the chasm of sleep…
H.P. Lovecraft (via agriff11)
H.P. Lovecraft (via agriff11)
via agriff11
“We live in a society of victimization, where people are much more comfortable being victimized than actually standing up for themselves.” - Marilyn Manson
via starkstarskey
Plato says that the unexamined life is not worth living. But what if the examined life turns out to be a clunker as well?
Kurt Vonnegut, Wampeters, Foma and Granfalloons (via thethingsicantsayoutloud)
Kurt Vonnegut, Wampeters, Foma and Granfalloons (via thethingsicantsayoutloud)
via asmythoughtsunfold-deactivated2
There are no facts, only interpretations
Nietzsche (via dinanipedro)
Nietzsche (via dinanipedro)
via dinanipedro
A grapefruit is a lemon that saw a chance and took advantage of it.
Oscar Wilde (via warriors-of-the-wilderness)
Oscar Wilde (via warriors-of-the-wilderness)
via words-swim
So never refuse an invitation, never resist the unfamiliar, never fail to be polite and never outstay the welcome. Just keep your mind open and suck in the experience. And if it hurts, you know what? It’s probably worth it.
Jack Kerouac (via virgineunuchother)
Jack Kerouac (via virgineunuchother)
via virgineunuchother
The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don’t
Douglas Adams The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (via zombietimelord)
Douglas Adams The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (via zombietimelord)
via zombietimelord
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