The Picture Of Dorian Gray - Tumblr Posts
red wine drips from lips
like blood and
god knows it’ll never
be enough and
each hit burns like
it’s the first
you think you just might
die of thirst and
dorian, you’re gonna die
but pretty darling,
so am I
so you and I,
we’ll go down together
you’ll destroy yourself
and I’ll haunt you forever
nothing left to say but
beauty does not stay and
paint it fades and dries and
time it always flies
The Picture of Dorian Grey - a book review
this book felt like a giant fever dream. i truly liked this book. it was quite intriguing and it kept its mysterious undertone, i suppose i could call it, all through-out the book. the idea of dorian selling his soul to a painting is what captured my attention and made me want to read it. 'what would he do with this mask of youth' was my first thought before reading the book, and, to be quite honest, what happened did not disappoint. dorian as a person was quite fascinating, although he was not that great of a person, but that was the whole point of the story, was it not? what i think that wilde was trying to inform people of, or not even inform, simply talk about, was that he thinks that regardless of how kind a person is, if they're given the chance to preserve what they care about most, and in dorian's case it was his youth, they would do it, not caring about how many people they hurt in the process. aside from the intriguing plot-line, i quite liked wilde's writing style. he uses a lot of metaphors and many literary devices and i found that to be quite amiable. (spoiler) i find the way that dorian died truly interesting and i think that, if you've read the book, you'd understand why overall, i truly liked this book and it was an enjoyable read.
Sebastian: When were growing up we didn't have Lil Nas X we just had Gerard Way moaning in Destroya.
Kurt: And The Picture of Dorian Gray.
Santana : And Freddie Mercury in drag.
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself, with desire for what its monstrous laws have made monstrous and unlawful.
Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
Designs for the Retro au!! I had way too much designing outfits for them all :)
A lil comic from the Spirit of ‘76 cause the quote was very ✨them✨
The scene in question:
Here ye, Here ye I have a DTIYS for you all featuring nothing but the Retro gang!
So here’s what’s up:
-You do not have to draw EVERYBODY (unless you want to, it is a lot of characters after all). The fun part of this DTIYS is you are free to pick whatever window you want to draw.
-You are free to pick whatever window to draw, you are also free the detail their rooms or change their poses, as long as you stick with the roommates from what window you’ve chosen.
- The deadline for this is September 14th. I will draw waist up drawings as prizes for the top three winners. (Will be divvying these up between Insta and Tumblr)
-Don’t forget to @ me so I can find your entries!! If you aren’t comfortable posting your drawing feel free to DM me :)
Well happy drawing! Can’t wait to see what you all come up with!
i finished the picture of dorian gray yesterday
everyone only ever talks about the picture, and yet nobody talks about dorian's soul and the consequences, or his morals
is it so wrong to feel the yearning desire to live our life to what we consider is the fullest? i can't blame dorian, he was willing to sacrifice his soul to live like he wanted and i would too
he was an awful human being, a hypocrite, and he never actually regretted his actions
but do we have the rights to judge him?
The Picture of Dorian Grey but Ford is Basil, and Bill is Dorian. IDK who Henry is, but I don't like him.
“The reason we all like to think so well of others is that we are all afraid for ourselves. The basis of optimism is sheer terror. We think that we are generous because we credit our neighbour with the possession of those virtues that are likely to be a benefit to us. We praise the banker that we may overdraw our account, and find good qualities in the highwayman in the hope that he may spare our pockets. I mean everything that I have said. I have the greatest contempt for optimism.”
The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde.
"What of art?" she asked.
"It is a malady."
"Love?"
"An illusion."
"Religion?"
"The fashionable substitute for belief."
"You are a sceptic."
"Never! Scepticism is the beginning of faith."
"What are you?"
"To define is to limit."
— Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
"What of art?" she asked.
"It is a malady."
"Love?"
"An illusion."
"Religion?"
"The fashionable substitute for belief."
"You are a sceptic."
"Never! Scepticism is the beginning of faith."
"What are you?"
"To define is to limit."
— Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
"What of art?" she asked.
"It is a malady."
"Love?"
"An illusion."
"Religion?"
"The fashionable substitute for belief."
"You are a sceptic."
"Never! Scepticism is the beginning of faith."
"What are you?"
"To define is to limit."
— Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
August 18, 2021
My current read.✨ I must say I’m impressed with how fast I’ve been reading this book because I’m typically a slow reader! If you guys have read it, what would you rate it as? {mine}
Cover art: Stephen Alcorn
(...why don’t most bookblrs credit the cover illustrator/designers when the reason for most of the likes & reblogs are because people like the look of the cover?)
Modern Library editions from Oscar Wilde, Willa Cather, and Isak Dinesen
“Take a lover who looks at you like maybe you are magic.”
— Frida Kahlo
Artwork: Le Printemps (Springtime), Pierre-Auguste Cot.
“What if I slept a little more and forgot about all this nonsense.”
— Franz Kafka
Books like Dorian Gray?
I am looking for good Horror/ Mystery Literature like the Picture of Dorian Gray, Frankenstein or the stories by Edgar Allan Poe. Do you guys have any recommendations for me? Am not as familiar with that genre as i would like to be.
