When you’re smiling, the whole world smiles with you. Joker: Folie À Deux – only in theaters and IMAX, October 4. #JokerMovie #FilmedForIMAX

Still hits me even tho I made it years ago. That’s why winners win. It’s inside of you.

osamu dazai - the setting sun

Amazing how your twenties will take away the youthful chub of your cheeks, leaving you hollowed by experience, starved of affection and hankering after cigarettes, love, little treats and time, so much time.

I can not stop it; I am losing my grip on reality and witnessing the day disintegrate into dreadful, agonizing memories as the hours tick by.

The heart breaks when it has swelled too much in the warm breath of hope, then finds itself enclosed in cold reality.

The beautiful intimacy of being handed the thing you need most - a tissue, a spoon, a pen, paper - no words, just the thing you need from hands that understand you, at the perfect moment. That's it.

This has me choked up. I went to visit my parents, who are not "literary" people, and this is what I saw. The "book" on the left is apparently something I wrote when I was 10. The rest are what I've done with my life.

I am not "taking too long to respond." I am studying your message. Annotating it. Eking out meaning. Living by it, dying by it.

I wish I could look after you. In any case, we both need a rest ; what would be more natural than that we, who both have the same need, should go to the same place? Franz Kafka, 1913.

Friends and followers, this platform has doubled down on boosting divisiveness and burying communities. Can you still see the posts of the Daily Poety Thread (or even this post)? I'd like to continue with our community, if so.

me too kafka

i really like writing. i really enjoy that part of being a writer. even when it's difficult, or especially when it's difficult. i don't get why you would try to avoid all the exploring, experimenting, and just fooling around. it includes failure, yes, and also a whole lot of fun

It's time to lock out. Fade into the mist. Haunt the moors. Become something ethereal, intangible, terrifying.

Starting my day correctly with my daily affirmations that go a little like "please, please, please let me get what I want"

All the best for you and for everything relating to your life. Franz Kafka, 1924.

Virginia Woolf perfectly describes the strange misery of lying in bed alone on certain nights

While I have always attempted to maintain my composure in the face of adversity, it is true that sometimes things can throw me for a loop.

the earth is littered with the ruins of empires that believed they were eternal

His anguish and annoyance had grown by then. Rather than sobbing or cocooning himself, his only desire was to stomp across the ocean and ruthlessly split his heart in two.