You did not fear death. You stepped in its path, but without really desiring it: how can one desire something one doesn’t know? You didn’t deny life but affirmed your taste for the unknown, betting that if something existed on the other side, it would be better than here. ― Edouard Levé, Suicide (P.O.L. March… Continue reading Edouard Levé
You used to believe that with age you would become less unhappy, because you then would have reasons to be sad. When you were still young, your suffering was inconsolable because you believed it to be unfounded. Your suicide was scandalously beautiful… You died because you searched for happiness at the risk of finding the… Continue reading Edouard Levé
When the soul suffers too much, it develops a taste for misfortune. — Albert Camus
(You will proclaim through your work that you hold the universe at a distance.) — Jean-Paul Sartre, “The Poetry of Suicide,” Between Existentialism and Marxism. (Verso, January 17, 2008) Originally published 1960.
For you, the past would be forever improving, the future would draw you forward, but the present would weigh you down. — Édouard Levé, Suicide. (POL; POL edition, March 6, 2008)
I’m full of love, and nobody wants it. — Dylan Klebold
Sometimes you have to cross the boundaries of Death in order to discover the meaning of Life. ― B. G. Bowers, Death and Life. (PaperFields Press; Revised edition, December 21, 2014)
Your life was a hypothesis. Those who die old are made of the past. Thinking of them, one thinks of what they have done. Thinking of you, one thinks of what you could have become. You were, and you will remain, made up of possibilities. ― Édouard Levé, Suicide. (P.O.L. (�DITIONS); POL edition, April 15,… Continue reading Édouard Levé
You were said to have died of suffering. But you died because you searched for happiness at the risk of finding the void. — Édouard Levé, Suicide. (P.O.L. (�DITIONS); POL edition, April 15, 2008)
It is not worth the bother of killing yourself, since you always kill yourself too late. ― Emil M. Cioran, The Trouble With Being Born. (Arcade Publishing September 15, 1998) Originally published 1973.
The Vale of Soul-Making 