And like the moon, we must go through
phases of emptiness to feel full again.

Solitude can be a moody companion.

— Jonathan Carroll

Voyage in Time; dir. by Tonino Guerra, 1983

sqq. *

Am I in love? — Yes, since I'm waiting.

— Roland Barthes

sqq. *

True contact between beings is established only by mute presence, by apparent non-communication, by that mysterious and wordless exchange which resembles inward prayer.

— E. M. Cioran

Letzter Zug (Lok 364 863-1) am 23.12.1999 auf der Strecke Mülheim-Heißen - Essen-Rüttenscheid - Hattingen; seit November 2004 Radweg Grugatrasse.

[Why are you so sad?] Because you speak to me in words and I look at you with feelings.

— Leo Tolstoy

Andy, take my picture.

The essence of Richard Nixon is loneliness.

— Henry Kissinger

Romy Schneider

La Piscine; dir. by Jacques Deray in 1969

Her fingers are eloquent.

— Andreas Empirikos

Portrait of a Young Girl at the End of the 60's in Brussels;
dir. by Chantal Akerman, 1994

Nature doesn't really care about your beliefs.

— Richard Feynman

Damaged people always find each other, the attraction is irresistible.

— Michael Boiano

Ich kann mit den ganzen Worten nichts anfangen. Ich weiß auch gar nicht, was ich darauf antworten soll.

— Klaus Kinski

sqq. *

The more simple we are, the more complete we become.

— Auguste Rodin

I made landscapes out of what I feel.

— Fernando Pessoa

Ballet Master of the Opéra de Paris and his students, Paris.

Ph. by Alfred Eisenstaedt, 1930

She was fragile, gentle, wide awake in a sleeping world.

— Jeanette Winterson

Just move, you'll discover. The strength you don't know.

— Susan Sontag

sqq. *

She lives in dreams, alone.

— Virginia Woolf

Those who really love, love in silence, with deeds and not in words.

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

[Heavy rotation.]

Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering.

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

sqq. *

I find some comfort in things that aren't easy to define.

— Chelsea Wolfe

Aral-Pokal, Galopprennbahn, Gelsenkirchen-Horst, 1976

sqq. *

Do not be bewildered by the surfaces; in the depths all becomes law.

— Rainer Maria Rilke

There are things you can't get anywhere, but we dream they can be found in other people.

— David Lynch

All the answers are within you.

The sea is a mirror, not only to the clouds, the sun, the moon, and the stars, but to all one’s dreams, to all one's speculations. The sea tells us that everything is changing and that nothing ever changes, that tides go out and return, that all existence is a rhythm, only hastens or holds it back for a moment.

— Arthur Symons

Marcello Mastroianni

8½; dir. by Federico Fellini in 1963

Ours are untidy souls. Both are covered with scars.

— Marina Tsvetaeva

My poetry does not exist to answer, but rather to continue asking.

— Emily Jungmin Yoon