1. Any man who preaches real love is bound to beget hate. It is as true of democratic fraternity as a divine love; sham love ends in compromise and common philosophy; but real love has always ended in bloodshed.
    — G.K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy (via larien-vardamir-arcamonel)

    (Source: closertothelost, via larien-vardamir-arcamonel)

     

  2. queen-yetta-rosenberg:

    Reliquary Pendant, Scottish, ca. 1200

     

  3. thuja:

    Kris Kuksi The Guardian

     

  4. foxesinbreeches:

    Untitled, Providence, Rhode Island by Francesca Woodman, 1975–1978

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  5. venusmilk:

    Odilon Redon
    Woman with Serpent

    (source)

     

  6. biomedicalephemera:

    cabbagingcove:

    Sainte Valérie, by Jaques Laudin II

    (via bones-and-things)

     

  7. neviria:

    Samuel Colman - “The Rock of Salvation” (1837)

    (via jayalalita)

     


  8. ‘But what of the poor Ghosts who never get into the omnibus at all?’
    ‘Everyone who wishes it does. Never fear. There are only two kinds of people in the end: those who say to God, “Thy will be done,” and those to whom God says, in the end, “Thy will be done.” All that are in Hell, choose it. Without that self-choice there could be no Hell . No soul that seriously and constantly desires joy will ever miss it. Those who seek find. To those who knock it is opened.’
    — C.S. Lewis, (The Great Divorce p. 72)
     

  9. indigodreams:


    Green Hillside,
    Eyvind Earle

    (via madamescherzo)

     

  10. colourthysoul:

    Nikolai Kalmakov - Seraphim (1916)

    (via barnsburntdownnow)

     

  11. by David Terry

     

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  13. ferenc-liszt:

    Niccolò Paganini drawing by Ingres(1819)

     

  14. pisseralhammer:

    Gustave Dore’s gate of hell.

    (via nataliakoptseva)

     


  15. Here
    I’m here-
    the snow falling.
    — Kobayashi Issa (via wuthering-heights)

    (Source: moontravelers, via largerloves)