Audrey Reid

Read This When You Need To Remember You're Not Alone With Your Thoughts

"The only people awake at 3am are in love, lonely, drunk, or all three."
Marisa Donnelly
September 22, 2016
“Each of us believes, quite unconsciously of course, that he alone pursues the truth, which the rest are incapable of seeking out and unworthy of attaining. This madness is so deep-rooted and so useful that it is impossible to realize what would become of each of us if it were someday to disappear. ”
— E. M. Cioran, The Trouble with Being Born
Tagged: Consciousness, Identity
“I think the problem, to be quite honest with you, is that you've never actually known what the question is.”
— Douglas Adams, The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Tagged: Questioning
“I keep wondering, how many people do you need to be, before you can become yourself.”
— Iain Thomas, The Agony Of Being Other People
Tagged: Identity
“Identity is a prison you can never escape, but the way to redeem your past is not to run from it, but to try to understand it, and use it as a foundation to grow.”
— Jay Z, Decoded
Tagged: Identity, Understanding, Growth
“I keep telling myself that I don’t miss you and don’t love you, hoping one day I’ll believe it.”
— Anonymous
Tagged: Miss you, Heartbreak, Pain, Love, Relationships, Dating, Loneliness, Longing, separation
“My body is a projection of my consciousness.”
— Deepak Chopra, Quantum Healing: Exploring the Frontiers of Mind/Body Medicine
Tagged: Healing, Health, Wellness, Consciousness, Body, self, Identity, Image
“When it's 3am and you can't sleep, open your window or step outside your house. Feel the crisp, cold air on your skin. Take a deep breath and watch as you create clouds when you breathe out. Look at the dark blue sky that sits above your head and marvel at how beautiful it is. Try to find the moon and the stars that guard the night sky. Whisper all your uncertainties out into the universe, it's okay if you let the stars carry the weight of your worries for a while. 

When it's 3am and you can't sleep, make a cup of tea, grab a pen and paper and write all the things you wish you could say in the form of a letter and address them to the people you wish you had the courage to tell. When you're done, seal them in an envelope and keep them in the drawer of your bedside table. Maybe one day you'll show them the words you wrote, but for now, it's out in the world and that's all that matters. When you start to shiver, step back inside. When your hand starts to cramp, stop writing. When you crawl back in bed and try to sleep, I hope you feel a little lighter. ”
— Unknown, via Tumblr
Tagged: When It's 3am, 3am Thoughts, Writing, Free Yourself, Let It All Out, Writing Fluidly, Power of Words, My Favorites
“Maybe everybody in the whole damn world is scared of each other.”
— John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men
Tagged: Loneliness, Solitude, Love
“My thoughts are stars I cannot fathom into constellations.”
— Augustus Waters, The Fault in Our Stars
Tagged: Thoughts, Stars, Metaphor, Lyrical Language, My Favorites
“I don’t think you can ever fill the empty space with the thing you lost.”
— John Green, An Abundance Of Katherines
Tagged: Loss, Empty Space, Filling Holes, Hole In Your Heart, Loneliness, Pain
“There is little to the concept of ‘belonging’ other than being possessed by your own haunting need to be completed. It is not being homeless but being a wanderer not searching for a home that sets you free.”
— Julia Laksa, I Lost Myself In My Passions, And We Lost Touch
Tagged: Wanting To Be Completed, Wanting To Belong, Belonging, Wanderer, Wanderlust, My Favorites, Searching For Home, Finding Home, Home
“Everyone, at some point in their lives, wakes up in the middle of the night with the feeling that they are all alone in the world, and that nobody loves them now and that nobody will ever love them...The best thing to do in these circumstances is to wake somebody else up, so that they can feel this way, too.”
— Lemony Snicket, Horseradish
Tagged: Love, True Love, Loneliness, Heartbreak
“The definition of humanness is the opportunity to marvel at the majesty of creation.”
— Hazel, The Fault in Our Stars
Tagged: humanity, Being human, Creation, Majesty Of Life, Being Alive, My Favorites
“When asked the question, 'What are you thinking about,' many times the answer returned is 'Nothing." It' a lie. Nobody every really thinks of nothing. The human mind doesn't stop. Doesn't go blank.”
— Megan Hart, Dirty
Tagged: Thoughts, Thinking, Brain
“I am the kind of empty that comes only when it’s known that I will never be filled again. The kind of empty that, well, there is no kind of empty that even begins to feel how I feel...I am empty. I am empty. I am empty.”
— Tyler Knott Gregson, Without You, I Am The Kind Of Broken That Can’t Be Fixed
Tagged: Empty, Alone, Loneliness
“Naked is being pure when we’ve all sinned. Naked is open to judgment and criticism. My 4am confession to you is what it’s like being naked. ‘This is who I am and I’m in love with you’ is being naked. No one gets this kind of naked anymore. We just take our clothes off.”
— Jennifer Machin, This Is What It’s Like To Be Naked
Tagged: Naked, Being Naked, Vulnerable, Intimacy, Layers, Sex, Initimate, My Favorites
“Thinking – the talking of the soul with itself.”
— Plato, Plato: The Complete Works (31 Books)
Tagged: Deep Insights, Thinking, Thoughts, Soul
“Chaos is being yourself.”
— E.M Cioran, A Short History of Decay
Tagged: Chaos, Deep Insights, Identity, Be yourself
“How often, you wonder, has the direction of your life been shaped by such misunderstandings? How many opportunities have you been denied—or, for that matter, awarded — because someone failed to see you properly? How many friends have you lost, how many have you gained, because they glimpsed some element of your personality that shone through for only an instant, and in circumstances you could never reproduce? An illusion of water shimmering at the far bend of a highway.”
— Kevin Brockmeier, The View From the Seventh Layer (Vintage Contemporaries)
Tagged: Life, Identity, Growing Pains, Perception, Personality, Communication
“What if this sound could bring you peace? What if, what is isn't true? What are you going to do? Digging for the feel of something new; what if, what is isn't you?”
— The Smashing Pumpkins, Appels + Oranjes
Tagged: Identitiy, Seeking, Best Lyrics
“I wonder what it's like to be in love.
To go to sleep every night and wake up every morning to nothing but a heart full of love because the first thing that’s on your mind is your significant other. To laugh and smile whenever you’re around them or just thinking about them. I want to know what that feels like.”
— xjayle, via Tumblr
Tagged: Love, 3am Thoughts, Wondering About Love
“and, here’s the thing. you might be one of those who don’t have a five year plan. and, you’re so lost. and, you don’t know what you want to do with your life. and, you feel pressured from every direction to follow a certain path. and, the thing is no one tells you it’s okay not to know. so, i will. and, i think it’s better to be honest about not knowing instead of faking your way through a life that doesn’t belong to you. and, there are worse things than being lost. because you might find the person you’ve always dreamed of becoming. and, stop worrying about time. about checking off boxes of a fulfilled life before you’re thirty. because, your dreams will still be there. waiting, along with success until they’re ready for you. so, it’s okay. just to be. where you are. right now.”
— silla berg, 03:24:05 am
Tagged: 3am Thoughts, Thinking, Thinking About Life
“and, maybe i was the music and you needed the lyrics.”
— silla berg, 03:23:05 am
Tagged: 3am Thoughts, Thinking, Up At Night, Thinking About You
“The only people awake at 3am are in love, lonely, drunk, or all three.”
— Zephirus, via Tumblr
Tagged: 3am Thoughts, 3AM, Lonely, Thinking, Up At Night
“and, it's okay to not know who you are.”
— silla berg, 03:22:05 am
Tagged: 3am Thoughts, Thinking, unknown, Discovering Yourself
“I only believe in some things;

•I believe we grow as people,the older we become.
•We grow due to our life experiences.
•Expensive things in life are temporary.
•One person can change your view of the world.”
— warriors which built this town, 3AM THOUGHTS
Tagged: 3am Thoughts, Thinking, Deep Thinking, Up At Night
“What even is sleep when you can lie here wanting someone by your side?”
— doctorstarfleet, via Tumblr
Tagged: 3AM, 3am Thoughts, Sleep, Loneliness, Missing You
“Have you ever watched the person you love slowly lose interest in you? It starts off little, you can’t quite put your finger on it, but something is different, something has changed. Everything feels slightly off, off like a monday. You can almost hear it in their voice, you can see it in their eyes. You think it’s you, you start over thinking every single little thing, wondering what you did, where it all went wrong, how you can fix it. It starts off with little things like waking up to no text, calls become fewer and farther between, the lack of effort, emotion and the excuses begin to pile up. Soon it starts tearing up apart, the feeling of not being good enough begins to make you feel physically sick. You know it’s coming, you know you can’t do anything to stop it. The aching doesn’t stop.”
— NOTHING IS AS IT SEEMS, Day 34
Tagged: 3AM, 3am Thoughts, Loneliness, Losing, Letting Go, Love & Relationships
“What if we never met?”
— kayleinlayno, via Tumblr
Tagged: 3AM, 3am Thoughts, Fate, Meeting You
“I use to think to myself. Why do I even love him? But now that i’ve stopped loving him, the my question is, Why did I ever love him? We are all so caught up with the idea of being in love that we never actually know how it feels to be in love”
— kayleinlayno, via Tumblr
Tagged: 3AM, 3am Thoughts, Fate, Meeting You, Love, What Is Love, Thinking About Love