"My painting is not violent, it’s life that is violent. Even within the most beautiful landscape, in the trees, under the leaves, the insects are eating each other; violence is a part of life. We are born with a scream; we come into life with a scream and maybe love is a mosquito net between the fear of living and the fear of death."
— Francis Bacon, The Last Interview (The Art Newspaper)(Source: catdress, via thisnausea-deactivated20110610)
Posted 5 months ago with 249 notes
(Source: thebestthingsinlifearethese)
Tags: #pictures #existence #fear #futilityPosted 6 months ago with 83 notes
"Do you begin to see, then, what kind of world we are creating? It is the exact opposite of the stupid hedonistic Utopias that the old reformers imagined. A world of fear and treachery and torment, a world of trampling and being trampled upon, a world which will grow not less but more merciless as it refines itself. Progress in our world will be progress toward more pain."
— Orwell, 1984
Posted 7 months ago with Notes
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— Charles Bukowski, The Crunchthere is a loneliness in this world so great
that you can see it in the slow movement of
the hands of a clock.
people so tired
mutilated
either by love or no love.
people just are not good to each other
one on one.
the rich are not good to the rich
the poor are not good to the poor.
we are afraid.
our educational system tells us
that we can all be
big-ass winners.
it hasn’t told us
about the gutters
or the suicides.
or the terror of one person
aching in one place
alone
untouched
unspoken to
watering a plant.
"(Source: estincelle)
Posted 10 months ago with 61 notes
Yevgeni Bauer, The Dying Swan (1917)
(Source: ellamorte, via narcoticalupus)
Tags: #pictures #film #death #fear #dbPosted 10 months ago with 2,244 notes
"Life is a nightmare that prevents one from sleeping."
— Oscar Wilde
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