"Exactly what don’t I think is beautiful? Listen, I don’t care what you say about my race, creed, or religion, but don’t tell me I’m not sensitive to beauty. To me, everything is beautiful. Show me a pink sunset and I’m limp, by God. Anything."  - J D Salinger, Franny and Zooey (1961)


aseaofquotes: F. Scott Fitzgerald, “The Sensible Thing”

aseaofquotes:

F. Scott Fitzgerald, “The Sensible Thing”


"Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live."  - Norman Cousins (via kraujas)


"Then again, that’s one of the primary messages of this show: The hard work of confronting who you actually are and dealing with your shit is not as easy as just buying into a prefabricated image. Your true self will rise up out of the depths of your subconscious from time to time, but for the most part, you’re doing your best to construct an image of yourself that the rest of the world will buy into, be that the perfect man in a perfect suit or the older, dapper rich gentleman or the first female copywriter at an advertising firm that seemed like a boys’ club just a few years ago. To give in to your feelings—even a little bit—is weakness, and to survive, those emotional moments have to be held privately. After all, Betty only left Don after she’d seen who he really was at his core. Letting anyone know too much about you is power."  - The AV Club’s review of Mad Men (“Dark Shadows”) [x] (via jonhammsome)


"I don’t believe in fate or destiny. I believe in various degrees of hatred, paranoia, and abandonment. However much of that gets heaped upon you doesn’t matter - it’s only a matter of how much you can take and what it does to you."  - Henry Rollins (via brokenmachine)



"We were together. I forget the rest."  - Walt Whitman  (via quotesforintellectuals)


"But I guess the thing that I want to say about fandom is that it’s the closest thing to religion there is that isn’t actually religion."  - Joss Whedon (x)


"If you think topping a box office record compares with someone telling you your work helped them through a rough time, you’re probably new here."  - Joss Whedon (via whedonesqued)


"Equality is not a concept. It’s not something we should be striving for. It’s a necessity. Equality is like gravity. We need it to stand on this earth as men and women, and the misogyny that is in every culture is not a true part of the human condition. It is life out of balance, and that imbalance is sucking something out of the soul of every man and woman who’s confronted with it. We need equality. Kinda now."  - Joss Whedon (via antisocial-socialist)