Clumsy Nightingale

I’m sorry that I’m both, your umbrella and the rain.

(Source: ad-stellas, via paulogan)

Life, as we find it, is too hard for us; it brings us too many pains, disappointments and impossible tasks. In order to bear it we cannot dispense with palliative measures… There are perhaps three such measures: powerful deflections, which cause us to make light of our misery; substitutive satisfactions, which diminish it; and intoxicating substances, which make us insensible to it.

—― Sigmund Freud, Civilization and Its Discontent

But I knew that you were a truth I would rather lose than to have never lain beside at all.

(Source: lettersfromcarina)

Italian artist Anna Utopia Giordano has created a visual re-imagination of historic nude paintings, had the subjects conformed their bodies to what the 21st century considers an ideal of beauty. The results are revealing—and quite shocking in what they say about the modern attitude toward women’s bodies.

(Source: symmetrism, via edwardspoonhands)