visual representations of how intense heartbreak and loneliness feel

Philip Glass

Unknown photographer / Fox Photos. Misty Thames. London. 1931

A letter from schizophrenic patient Emmy Hauck to her husband. It consists only phrase “Herzensschatzi komm” (darling please come) and “komm komm komm” (come, come, come ) repeated over and over.

Amsterdam airport “Schiphol” 1978

Gustav Klimt, Death and Life, 1915

“We are not so badly off that we have to be as badly off as Stoics.”

— The Gay Science, §326 (excerpt).

Sirius

Hunter S. Thompson in Puerto Rico 1960

“A young boy who had just stolen his father’s car and crashed it, takes one final puff on his cigarette before facing the consequences. (1974).”