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Sylvia Plath, aged 17, journal entry #28, from "The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath" (c. September 1950)
#wish it would shut up#i’m jealous of the people ignorant enough to be happy with such regular things
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guys i GOT THE PHD. DOCTORRRRER
getting that end of thesis depression where nothing matters and everything is annoying
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been thinking about that apocryphal Jung quote re: haterism:
The world is full of people suffering from the effects of their own unlived life. They become bitter, critical, or rigid, not because the world is cruel to them, but because they have betrayed their own inner possibilities. The artist who never makes art becomes cynical about those who do. The lover who never risks loving mocks romance. The thinker who never commits to a philosophy sneers at belief itself. And yet, all of them suffer, because deep down they know: the life they mock is the life they were meant to live.
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i’ve been in london 3 months now, and have had 0 luck with jobs and have experienced a level of existentialism i didn’t think was possible
#if/when i leave#i’ll be failing my younger self#and i will be very depressed and confused#i don’t love it here enough to get some poorly paying pub job#my 25 year old brain says: steady pay check#paid time off#some disposable income so i can buy the fancy soap
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ok! affirmations for today AAAAAAAA HELP ME GOD PLEASEEEE AAAAAAAA
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No because pride and prejudice isn't "I changed myself for you so you would love me back." It's "your blatant rejection and disdain for me made me realize things about myself no one had ever been bold enough to tell me so I sat down and evaluated all my behavior patterns and why they came about and came to the realization myself that I had to work on myself. Also I don't expect you to love me now that I'm a work in progress, so I'm just going to do nice things for you because I don't like seeing you hurt." No wonder P&P fans refuse to settle.
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What if i'm unlucky enough to be the first person who nobody ever loved
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Simone de Beauvoir, from Diary of a Philosophy Student: Volume 1, 1926-27
Text ID: my solitude is an intoxication: I am, I'm in control, I love myself, and I scorn everything else.
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try not to unlearn all your shame in case there's something good stuff in there that you can sexualize
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"Inside, we’re ageless. And when we talk to ourselves, it’s the same person we were talking to, the same age, when we were little, and it’s the body that’s changing around that ageless center." -David Lynch
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no offence but I hate when people my age start projecting their own fears and ideas about aging and youth onto me. girl sorry but I’m young and beautiful if you think women in their late 20s onwards are worthless old hags who have run out of time that’s a personal problem
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