— Jean-Paul Sartre

always been kind of fascinated by the fact that so many wikipedia pages for complex emotional states/afflictions are represented by paintings, a disproportionate number of which are by edvard munch

I’ve gone down the river of sadness I’ve gone down the river of pain in the dark, under the wires I hear them call my name

Shin-ichi Sakamoto, the climber

From Akira Kurosawa’s Throne of Blood (蜘蛛巣城)

Bronze Statue of Eros Sleeping (Greek, 3rd–2nd century BCE)

lady snowblood (1973)



Ralph Brown: La Sposa (1999)

palestinian civilians pictured in 'the spirit of palestine,' taken during a full scale uprising against the israeli occupation, c. 1987.

Unknown Photographer “Eros & Psyche”

Beautiful early ‘70s editions by Simone de Beauvoir

goth girl with dragon tattoo on her back, 1980.

Anima Sola, ca. 1900