#oscarwildequotes
Oscar Wilde was profoundly affected by the loss of his sister Isola and wrote the now famous poem “Requiescat” in her memory. He carried a lock of her hair in a decorated envelope until the end of his life. According to Oscar, Isola lit up their lives like “a golden ray of sunshine dancing about our home.” ☀️ #oscarwilde #oscarwildequotes #ireland #cemetery #grave #gravestone #isolawilde #irishwriter #literary #literature #poem #poetry #inmemory #Requiesvat #graveyard #sister (at Edgeworthstown)
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“Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.”
— Oscar Wilde
“The great thing about this life of ours is that you can be someone different to anybody.”
—Jennifer Niven, All The Bright Places
“A self that goes on changing is a self that goes on living.”
—Virginia Woolf
“A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language.”
— W.H Auden
“Wanting to be someone else is a waste of who you are.”
—Kurt Cobain
“What is belonging?” we ask. She says, “Where loneliness ends.”
Rivers Solomon, The deep.
I don’t know how many times you’ve heard this but ”be so completely yourself that everyone else feels safe to be themselves too"
“There is still one difference left between us. You have a tenderness grown weary and I have a weariness grown tender.”
—Dulce Maria Loynaz, Absolute Solitude
