🙫 words for the sleepy and curious 🙫

• whenever he looks at art or nature with friends, he feels obliged to express feelings on it even when he has none, and this discrepancy between feelings spoken and feelings felt gives him the sensation of not existing at all - oisín mckenna,evenings and weekends
• you like to act like you care about nothing and if you carry on like that then you're going to drown in the abyss you've imagined for yourself - alice oseman,solitaire
• alexithymia - also called emotional blindness, is a neuropsychological phenomenon characterized by significant challenges in recognizing, sourcing, and describing one's emotions
• i only know that i feel tired, antiqued; i feel as though i have been living a long, long time - ivan turgeney, fathers and sons
• hiraeth - n. (welsh) a spiritual longing for a home which maybe never was. nostalgia for ancient places to which we can not return. it is the echo of the lost places of our soul's past and our grief for them. it is the wind, and the rocks, and the waves. it is nowhere and it is everywhere
• my brain hums with scraps of poetry and madness - virginia woolf, selected letters