Ambientmusc/Poetry/Literature/Psychology/Philosopy

Brian Oldham | Saatchi Art

Artwork by pqhaus

Harald Slott-Møller | “Længsel” (1913) | MutualArt

"Your worst sin is that you have destroyed and betrayed yourself for nothing."

- Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

Art : Feminine stereotypes by Romina Bassu

It takes no effort to miss the friends we didn't make and the work we didn't do the people we didn't do and the people we didn't marry and the children we didn't have. It is not difficult to see yourself through the lens of other people, and to wish you were all the different kaleidoscopic versions of you they wanted you to be. It is easy to regret, and keep regretting, ad infinitum, until our time runs out.

But it is not lives we regret not living that are the real problem. It is the regret itself. It's the regret that makes us shrivel and wither and feel like our own and other people's worst enemy.

We can't tell if any of those other versions would of been better or worse. Those lives are happening, it is true, but you are happening as well, and that is the happening we have to focus on.”

― Matt Haig, The Midnight Library

Art: Everybody's Body by Richard Solomon Artists Rep on behance

"The nihilist" original art 11 x 14 acrylic on canvas painted by Jack Larson.

We want people to tell us apart.... yet we don't want them to be able to.

We want people to get to know us... but we also want them to keep their distance.

We've always longed for someone to accept us... But we never believed there'd be anyone who would accept our twisted ways. That's why we'll stay locked up tight... in our own little private world.. and throw away the key, so that no one can ever hurt us.”

― Bisco Hatori, Ouran High School Host Club, Vol. 9

- Notes from Wanderer

— *J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

Notes to myself, August 15, 2024

Art: Nocturnal Studies, Michael Handt - Oil on canvas

Book: Peter Camenzind

Poul Friis Nybo (Danish, 1869–1929). Oil on canvas.