L’esprit de escalier: (French) The feeling you get after leaving a conversation, when you think of all the things you should have said. Translated it means “the spirit of the staircase.”
…Waldeinsamkeit: (German) The feeling of being alone in the woods.
Meraki: (Greek) Doing something with…
Alexander Pope (via spotlessmind-)
Neil Gaiman, “The Kindly Ones” (via moronicbeauty)
Perhaps the reason we are unable to love is that we yearn to be loved, that is, we demand something (love) from our partner instead of delivering ourselves up to him demand-free and asking for nothing but his company.
— Milan Kundera