You can be anything you want to be

Just turn yourself into anything you think that you could ever be...

My silver lining

"Doubt thou the stars are fire...

Illustration for William Shakespeare's Hamlet, Act IV scene VII, by John Austen (1922)

...Doubt that the sun doth move;
Doubt truth to be a liar
But never doubt I love"

 - Hamlet, from a letter read by Polonius, scene II

La petite mort

"The Climax", illustration for Oscar Wilde's Salome by Aubrey Beardsley (1893)  

Tomb of Ligeia

Illustration for Edgar Allan Poe's short story Ligeia by Harry Clarke (1919)

... und one was 'assaulted'... Peanut

"Love is sharing your popcorn", from Love is Walking Hand In Hand (Peanuts)

"It's the pictures that got small"

Everybody Comes to Rick's

"The last time we met..."

"Not an easy day to forget. I remember every detail. The Germans wore gray, you wore blue."

"Of all the gin joints, in all the towns, in all the world, she walks into mine."

Casablanca (Michael Curtiz, 1942)

Einfach Träne

As the amount of cloth fluctuates gradually, I realize years and seasons go by unnoticed.
Distracted by our daily routine, nothing changes significantly.
I'm trapped in an endless spiral and it's making me sick.
Wonder how long I'll keep on holding on.
Better start composing the dirge.
Must be soon now...
Metaphores.

Battling the Pink Robots

I've come to assume that absolute happiness does not exist.

Of course, one can self-convince himself and believe for some seconds (or even minutes) that everything is fine in his life, but the next moment, it will prove it wrong.

Just wanted to tell you all.