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Who are you when you're not performing?

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Clarice Lispector, from a letter to Fernando Sabino featured in Why This World: A Biography of Clarice Lispector

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Sleep Token - Vore

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In the most positive way, I think I've lived for too long—seen too much, felt too deeply, and now, everything feels unbearably heavy, like I was never meant to last this long and carry all of this.

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Lidia Yuknavitch, from Reading the Waves: A Memoir published in 2025

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Bad Omens - Broken Youth

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Constantine P. Cavafy, from The Collected Poems of C. P. Cavafy; "A Love,"

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“Do you ever get to the point where the thoughts don’t bother you anymore? It’s like all the suicidal thoughts and the panic attacks are normal at this point. Like all these things have just become part of you and you’re no longer surprised when they come.”

— I’m at this point and I don’t know whether it’s better or worse

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Someone: why do u always say u feel sick

Me: because, my sweet dude, I literally cannot determine the line between my mental illness and physical unwellness anymore. I am Literally Always Ready To Die I am in a constant state of uncomfort my guy it always makes me feel like I’m gonna be ridin the queasy train to regretville

Me: haha

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— unknown (via letsbelonelytogetherr)

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— v, from “excerpt from a book i will never write” (via letsbelonelytogetherr)

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— Anaïs Nin, from The Diary of Anaïs Nin (Vol. 1: 1931-1934) (via letsbelonelytogetherr)

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i wasn't meant to live this long and that's why i don't know what to do when i feel this awful

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

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— Roland Barthes, A Lover's Discourse; Fragments [translated by Richard Howard]