"Melancholy suicide. —This is connected with a general state of extreme depression and exaggerated sadness, causing the patient no longer to realize sanely the bonds which connect him with people and things about him. Pleasures no longer attract."Emile Durkheim (via wwspreading)12
Life is not like Gloomy Sunday With a second ending When the people are disturbed Well they should be disturbed Because there’s a story That ought to be heard
"Under the arches of moonlight and sky
Suddenly easy to contemplate why, why
Why live a life
That’s painted with pity and sadness and strife
Why dream a dream
That’s tainted with trouble and less than it seems
Why bother bothering
Just for a poem or another sad song to sing" Emilie Autumn (via this-celluloid-dreamer)28
"In a sense, and as in melodrama, killing yourself amounts to confessing. It is confessing that life is too much for you or that you do not understand it."Albert Camus - “An Absurd Reasoning,” The Myth of Sisyphus (via sisyphean-revolt)
"The so-called ‘psychotically depressed’ person who tries to kill herself doesn’t do so out of quote ‘hopelessness’ or any abstract conviction that life’s assets and debits do not square. And surely not because death seems suddenly appealing. The person in whom Its invisible agony reaches a certain unendurable level will kill herself the same way a trapped person will eventually jump from the window of a burning high-rise. Make no mistake about people who leap from burning windows. Their terror of falling from a great height is still just as great as it would be for you or me standing speculatively at the same window just checking out the view; i.e. the fear of falling remains a constant. The variable here is the other terror, the fire’s flames: when the flames get close enough, falling to death becomes the slightly less terrible of two terrors. It’s not desiring the fall; it’s terror of the flames. And yet nobody down on the sidewalk, looking up and yelling ‘Don’t!’ and ‘Hang on!’, can understand the jump. Not really. You’d have to have personally been trapped and felt flames to really understand a terror way beyond falling"David Foster Wallace91
"People are never convinced of your reasons, of your sincerity, of the seriousness of your sufferings, except by your death. So long as you are alive, your case is doubtful; you have a right only to their skepticism. So if there were the least certainty that one could enjoy the show, it would be worth proving to them what they are unwilling to believe and thus amazing them. But you kill yourself and what does it matter whether or not they believe you? You are not there to see their amazement and their contrition (fleeting at best), to witness, according to every one’s dream, your own funeral. In order to cease being a doubtful case, one has to cease being, that’s all. Besides, isn’t it better thus? We’d suffer too much from their indifference."Albert Camus, The Fall74
"I feel as if things are falling apart within me, like so many glass partitions shattering. I walk from place to place in the grip of a fury, needing to act, yet can do nothing about it because any attempt seems doomed in advance. Failure, everywhere failure. Only suicide hovers above me, gleaming and inaccessible."Michel Houellebecq, Whatever14
"Of the demonstrably wise there are but two: those who commit suicide, and those who keep their reasoning faculties atrophied with drink."Mark Twain (via blackestdespondency)16
"Dobro je biti cinik — bolje je biti zadovoljan — a najbolje je uopće ne postojati. Opće samoubojstvo najlogičnija je stvar na svijetu — odbijamo ju radi zbog našeg primitivnog kukavičluka i djetinjastog straha od mraka. Kada bismo bili razumni, tražili bismo smrt — jednaku blaženu prazninu u kojoj smo uživali prije no što smo postali."Howard Phillips Lovecraft (via unknownskeleton)5