#delirium

Life creates itself in delirium and is undone in ennui. ↗

— Emile M. Cioran

#delirium #ennui #itself #life #undone

And even though I'm standing in the middle of the biggest crowd I've ever seen in my life, I suddenly feel very alone. ↗

— Lauren Oliver

#hana #lauren-oliver #lena #life

Delirium: You use that word so much. Responsibilities. Do you ever think about what that means? I mean, what does it mean to you? In your head? Dream: Well, I use it to refer that area of existence over which I exert a certain amount of control or influence. In my case, the realm and action of dreaming. Delirium: Hump. It's more than that. The things we do make echoes. S'pose, f'rinstance, you stop on a street corner and admire a brilliant fork of lightning--ZAP! Well for ages after people and things will stop on that very same corner, stare up at the sky. They wouldn't even know what they were looking for. Some of them might see a ghost bolt of lightning in the street. Some of them might even be killed by it. Our existence deforms the universe. THAT'S responsibility. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#dream #neil-gaiman #responsibility #the-dreaming #the-endless

Mama, Mama, put me to bed I won’t make it home, I’m already half-dead I met an Invalid, and fell for his art He showed me his smile, and went straight for my heart. ↗

— Lauren Oliver

#requiem #art

Sometimes I swear that just for a second time freezes and the world pauses in its tilt. Just for a second. And if you somehow found a way to live in that second, then you would live forever. ↗

— Lauren Oliver

#delirium #infinite #beauty

I don't know. I had to be something, didn't I? ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#sandman #tattoo #dreams

Everything has taken on a strange, distant quality - the sounds of running and shouting outside get warped and weird like they're being filtered through water, and Alex looks miles away. I start to think I might be dreaming, or about to pass out. And then I decide I'm definitely dreaming, because as I'm watching, Alex starts peeling his shirt off over his head. ↗

— Lauren Oliver

#delirium #dreaming #funny #lauren-oliver #lena-holloway

His eyes are the color of honey. These are the eyes I remember from my dreams. ↗

— Lauren Oliver

#delirium #lena-haloway #requiem #dreams

Everything looks stark and vivid and frozen, as though drawn precisely and outlined in ink - parents' smiles frozen, camera flashes blinding, mouths open and white teeth glinstening, dark glossy hair and deep blue sky and unrelenting light, everyone drowning in light - everything so clear and perfect I'm sure it must already be a memory, or a dream. ↗

— Lauren Oliver

#lauren-oliver #dreams

Because I think you're right. You can make a difference." He told me experiences were kind of like fate, and fate usually came in the form of a test. He told me fate liked to be worshiped. It liked to see us fall on out knees before it offered to help us up..." ♥ ↗

— Lauren Oliver

#determination #fate #inspiration #lena-holoway #life