1523rd.

"Every New Year is the direct descendant, isn't it, of a long line of proven criminals?" - Ogden Nash


Photo is "New Year's Eve" - from RitterRunkel.

1522nd.

"In the end there doesn't have to be anyone who understands you. There just has to be someone who wants to." - Robert Brault


Photo is "Try to understand 3.0" - from Orooo.

1521st.

"People need to be encouraged. People need to be reminded of how wonderful they are. People need to be believed in - told that they are brave and smart and capable of accomplishing all the dreams they dream and more. Remind each other of this." - Stacey Jean Speer


Photo is "I believed" - from Onyria.

1520th.

"I closed my mouth and spoke to you in a hundred silent ways." - Rumi


Photo is "Speak silent chaos" - from pt-photo-inc.

1519th.

"You'll get to an age where all you can think about is having your shaking body clasped beneath someone else's and however many years of longing will leak out of your hands until you're trying to hold yourself together with the hope that maybe someday you're going to be wanted with a fire that burns out entire forests. All I can tell you is that you should hold out for that hope, one day you're going to be touched with so much intention you'll forget any other time someone held your hand." - Azra T.


Photo is "Passion" - from zhuzhu.

1518th.

"Almost. It's a big word for me. I feel it everywhere. Almost home. Almost happy. Almost changed. Almost, but not quite. Not yet. Soon, maybe. I'm hoping hard for that." - Joan Bauer


Photo is "Almost" - from NikitaGirl.

1517th.

"The main reason Santa is so jolly is because he knows where all the bad girls live." - George Carlin


Photo is "Christmas" - from Abakum.

1516th.

"The sharpest memory of our old-fashioned Christmas eve is my mother's hand making sure I was settled in bed." - Paul Engle


Photo is "Christmas Eve" - from WilliamSnape.

1515th.

"I just miss you, in a quite simple, desperate, human way." - Vita Sackville-West


Photo is "I miss you" - from Icecubed17.

1514th.

"Recognise that you are not the centre of the universe. Figure out how the idea of winning and losing fits into your relationships. Be as vulnerable as you possible can. Recognize vulnerability and empathy as strengths. Don't allow the fact that other people have been assholes to make you into a bitter, abusive person. Commit to the revolution as a method of psychological and physical survival." - Kathleen Hanna


Photo is "Humble, we are" - from Nurk91.

1513th.

"Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand and for a talk beside the fire: it is the time for home." - Edit Sitwell


Photo is "Winter" - from 1g4.

1512th.

"Promise me you'll always remember: you're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think." - A.A. Milne


Photo is "Believe" - from LovelyBPhotography.

1511th.

"It took us a long time to realize that a purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved." - Kurt Vonnegut


Photo is "Punk Love" - from 2dforever.

1510th.

"I hate this feeling. Like I'm here, but I'm not. Like someone cares. But they don't. Like I belong somewhere else, anywhere but here, and escape lies just past that snowy window, cool and crisp as the February air." - Ellen Hopkins


Photo is "Apathy" - from Maaria.

1509th.

"Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic." - Oscar Wilde


Photo is "There's beauty in the breakdown" - from ohsostarryeyed.

1508th.

"Instead of killing yourself, wait until a year from now where you say, 'Holy fuck, I can't believe I was going to kill myself before I etcetera'd ... before I went skinny dipping in Tennessee, made my own IPA, tried out for a game show, rode a camel drunk, skydived alone, learned to waltz with clumsy old people, photographed electric jellyfish, built a sailboat from trash, taught someone how to read, etc. etc. etc.' The red washing down the bathtub can't change the color of the sea at all." - Derrick C. Brown


Photo is "Stop Suicide" - from zombieslavedisco.

1507th.

"Maybe the older you grow and the less easy it is to put thought into action, maybe that's why it gets all locked up in your head and becomes a burden." - Truman Capote


Photo is "Aging Nightmare" - from Fatalysm.

1506th.

"She wants to know if I love her. That's all anyone wants from anyone else. Not love itself but the knowledge that love is there, like new batteries in the flashlight in the emergency kit in the hall closet." - Jonathan Safran Foer


Photo is "Love exists in another place" - from lazylemon23.

1505th.

"Everybody has a secret world inside of them. All of the people of the world, I mean everybody. No matter how dull and boring they are on the outside, inside them they've all got unimaginable, magnificent, wonderful, stupid, amazing worlds. Not just one world. Hundreds of them. Thousands maybe." - Neil Gaiman


Photo is "Inside the Inside" - from artpenalization.

1504th.

"Thinking something does not make it true. Wanting something does not make it real." - Michelle Hodkin


Photo is "Thinking" - from kawako198.

1503rd.

"What really knocks me out is a book that, when you're all done reading it, you wish the author that wrote it was a terrific friend of yours and you could him up on the phone whenever you felt like it. That doesn't happen much, though." - J.D. Salinger


Photo is "Addicted to Books II" - from alexandrajitariuc.

1502nd.

"I am so clever sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying." - Oscar Wilde


Photo is "Clever" - from vibrantcolors.

1501st.

"I lie to myself all the time. But I never believe me." - S.E. Hinton


Photo is "The Black Lie" - from Zindy.

1500th.

"I've been making a list of the things they don't teach you at school. They don't teach you how to love somebody. They don't teach you how to be famous. They don't teach you how to be rich or how to be poor. They don't teach you how to walk away from someone you don't love any longer. They don't teach you how to know what's going on in someone else's mind. They don't teach you what to say to someone who's dying. They don't teach you anything worth knowing." - Neil Gaiman


Photo is "Strange Lessons" - from Foxtrot44.

1499th.

"Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living." - Jonathan Safran Foer


Photo is "Skeleton" - from SkylineGT.

1498th.

"'Just kidding' was exactly what people wrote when they meant every word." - David Nicholls


Photo is "Dishonest Heart" - from suoik.

1497th.

"I didn't know that someone could be the love of your life and then fade from your heart. I didn't know your heart could feel liek a used-up eraser, rubbed down, grimy from neglect and overuse. It's an unbearable thought. Unbearable." - Kristan Higgins


Photo is "I Was a Heavy Heart to Carry" - from manuelestheim.

1496th.

"It was clear enough - one person waiting for another was like an arithmetical sum, and just as empty of emotion. Waiting. Simply one person doing nothing, over time, while another approached. Waiting was a heavy word. He felt it pressing down, heavy as a greatcoat." - Ian McEwan


Photo is "Waiting" - from MartaSyrko.

1495th.

"I lived in books more than I live anywhere else." - Neil Gaiman


Photo is "To Live Amidst the Unreal" - from galaxiesanddust.

1494th.

"We're too much ourselves. Afraid of letting go of what we are in case we're nothing, and holding on so tight we lost everything else." - Clive Barker


Photo is "Locked Away and Buried Deep" - from JodaCast.

1493rd.

"Hope. It's like a drop of honey, a field of tulips blooming in the springtime. It's fresh rain, a whispered promise, a cloudless sky, the perfect punctuation mark at the end of a sentence. And it's the only thing in the world keeping me afloat." - Tahereh Mafi


Photo is "Hope" - from ryky.

1492nd.

"The hungry feeling and the lonely feeling merged until it was hard to tell them apart." - Rob Sheffield


Photo is "Lonely Sparrow" - from rockmylife.

1491st.

"Sometimes you couldn't face the sadness of being forgotten until you felt the comfort of being remembered again." - Ann Brashares


Photo is "Friendships Remembered" - from TeaPhotography.

1490th.

"When you rise in the morning, give thanks for the light, for your life, for your strength. Give thanks for your food and for the joy of living. If you see no reason to give thanks, the fault lies in yourself." - Tecumseh


Photo is "Tecumseh" - from PaulJohnLittle.

1489th.

"I don't know if you've ever had this feeling, but sometimes, when you get something new, you trick yourself into believing it has the power to change absolutely everything about yourself." - Siobhan Vivian


Photo is "Something Old Something New" - from Gorilla-Ink.

1488th.

"They were things for which it was impossible to prepare but which one spent a lifetime looking back at, trying to accept, interpret, comprehend. Things that should never have happened, that seemed out of place and wrong, these were what prevailed, what endured, in the end." - Jhumpa Lahiri


Photo is "Unprepared" - from 5Sheep.

1487th.

"I think it's impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves." - Orson Scott Card


Photo is "Can't Understand" - from tugbaakdag.

1486th.

"Everything in life is unusual until you get accustomed to it." - L. Frank Baum


Photo is "Unusual Things" - from Nonnetta.

1485th.

"When people don't express themselves, they die one piece at a time. You'd be shocked at how many adults are really dead inside - walking through their days with no idea who they are, just waiting for a heart attack or cancer or a Mack track to come along and finish the job. It's the saddest thing I know." - Laurie Halse Anderson


Photo is "Express Yourself" - from byluluka.

1484th.

"Life makes fools of us all sooner or later. But keep your sense of humor and you'll at least be able to take your humiliations with some measure of grace. In the end, you know, it's our own expectations that crush us." - Paul Murray


Photo is "Fools" - from MicWits101.

1483rd.

"Hearts are like stones on an ocean beach. And people are like the tides that leave permanent marks on them." - Loretta Ellsworth


Photo is "Stones" - from LaRoseDuPetitPrince.

1482nd.

"I have terrible periods of lack of confidence. I just don't believe I can do it and no evidence to the contrary will sway me from that view." - Douglas Adams


Photo is "A Lack of Confidence" - from ThoRCX.

1481st.

"I suppose it's a comfort, perhaps a sense of self-control, doing worse damage to yourself than the world will ever dare inflict." - Chuck Palahniuk


Photo is "Self Harm Emotions Montage" - from CarolineCherry.

1480th.

"I never really thought about how when I look at the moon it's the same moon Shakespeare and Marie Antoinette and George Washington and Cleopatra looked at. Not to mention all those zillions of people I've never heard of. All those Homo sapiens and Neanderthals looked at the very same moon as me. It waxed and waned in their sky, too." - Susan Beth Pfeffer


Photo is "Moon" - from S4cr4m3nt.

1479th.

"I rose too high, loved too hard, dared too much. I tried to grasp a star, overreached, and fell." - George R.R. Martin


Photo is "The Fall" - from KayleighJune.

1478th.

"It is so easy to get sucked into the if-only game, and playing it is a short and slippery slide into despair." - William Paul Young


Photo is "If Only" - from sportygirl4114.

1477th.

"Why do some memories bleed out of nowhere and others stay locked behind doors?" - Jodi Picoult


Photo is "Memories" - from thymian.

1476th.

"Time passes slowly when you're young, and quickens as you get old. Summer lasted forever when I was seven, but now it only visits. When I was seven the days had more hours than I had use for and the distance between sun up and down again was a vast and lazy sprawl; now, when I look back, things seem to have happened with the most hectic and startling speed. The weeks and months have seeped into each other and become a span without feature and detail, riddled with cavernous holes." - Sonya Hartnett


Photo is "The Mists of Time" - from DarkSilverflame.

1475th.

"The English language needs a word for that feeling you get when you badly need help, but there is no one who you can call because you're not popular enough to have friends, not rich enough to have employees, and not powerful enough to have lackeys. It's a very distinct cocktail of impotence, loneliness and a sudden stark assessment of your non-worth to society." - David Wong


Photo is "Help" - from kimded.

1474th.

"When you stand in front of me and look at me, what do you know of the griefs that are in me and what do I know of yours?" - Franz Kafka


Photo is "Angel of Grief" - from p4trycha.