25.

"Some people break promises for the pleasure of breaking them." - William Hazlitt




Photo is "Hung Out To Dry" - from The Shadow 330.

24.

"And every occasion when a mask was torn off, an ideal broken, was preceded by this hateful vacancy and stillness, this deathly constriction and loneliness and unrelatedness, this waste and empty hell of lovelessness and despair, such as I had now." - Hermann Hesse




Photo is "Loneless at Road" - from Viand.

23.

"It is after all so easy to shatter a story. To break a chain of thought. To ruin a fragment of a dream being carried around carefully like a piece of porcelain. To let it be, to travel with it, as Velutha did, is much the harder thing to do." - Arundhati Roy




Photo is "The Universe Dreams" - from Tangled Seaweed.

22.

“Actually, in my opinion, a man didn’t have to be insane to be sensitive. There were people who could be wounded by trifles and whom a single hard word could kill.” - Knut Hamsun




Photo is "Fragile Heart" - from Ordinary Ironic.

21.

“It’s so easy to love somebody, I tell you, where there’s nothing else around.” - Edwidge Danticat




Photo is "Never Alone" - from Cool Edition.

20.

“No pain means the end of feeling; each of our joys is a bargain with the devil.” - Charles Bukowski




Photo is "The Faceless" - from of ruin.

19.

“The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.” - Maya Angelou




Photo is "The Road Home" - from Forlorn Existence.

18.

“A lot of people think having a big fantasy life is dangerous. Maybe that is why someone’s always trying to take it away from you. I think that’s why people become painters, musicians and even photographers.” - Bruce Webber




Photo is "Imagination" - from silverin87.

17.

“Soul-atoms are distributed throughout the body. Sensation is due to thin films thrown off by bodies and travelling on until they touch soul-atoms. These films may still exist when the bodies from which they originally proceeded have been dissolved; this accounts for dreams.” - Bertrand Russell




Photo is "The Atom" - from drummer4him.

16.

“Our wish to flee from the noise of the world may be a disguised wish to flee from the noise of our own internal monologues.” - Christina Feldman




Photo is "I Can't Hear You" from Kiaser.