“Hunter Thompson wrote suicide notes all his life.”
William McKeen (1954) American academic
Source: Outlaw Journalist (2008), Chapter 7, Among The Angels, p. 97
Boglárka
@Boglárka, member from Oct. 22, 2022
Peter Wessel Zapffe (1899–1990) Norwegian philosopher, mountaineer, and author
The Last Messiah [Den sidste Messias] (1933)
G. K. Chesterton book The Defendant
"Introduction"
The Defendant (1901)
Context: The pessimist is commonly spoken of as the man in revolt. He is not. Firstly, because it requires some cheerfulness to continue in revolt, and secondly, because pessimism appeals to the weaker side of everybody, and the pessimist, therefore, drives as roaring a trade as the publican. The person who is really in revolt is the optimist, who generally lives and dies in a desperate and suicidal effort to persuade all the other people how good they are. It has been proved a hundred times over that if you really wish to enrage people and make them angry, even unto death, the right way to do it is to tell them that they are all the sons of God.
“Suicide is a sudden accomplishment, a lightning-like deliverance: it is nirvana by violence.”
Emil M. Cioran (1911–1995) Romanian philosopher and essayist
The New Gods (1969)
Tiffanie DeBartolo (1970) American writer
Source: How to Kill a Rock Star
Karl Heinrich Ulrichs (1825–1895) German jurist, writer and pioneer of LGBT human rights
Quoted in: Keith Stern (2013), Queers in History: The Comprehensive Encyclopedia of Historical Gays, Lesbians and Bisexuals. p. 460
Lil Peep (1996–2017) American rapper
Song Life is Beautiful, Album: Come Over When You're Sober, Pt. 2
“Suicide is man's way of telling God, 'You can't fire me - I quit!”
Bill Maher (1956) American stand-up comedian
“The opportunity of your life, it's you.”
Prevale (1983) Italian DJ and producer
Original: (it) L'occasione della tua vita, sei tu.
Source: prevale.net
“Better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all. ”
Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892) British poet laureate
“Because I remember, I despair. Because I remember, I have the duty to reject despair.”
Elie Wiesel (1928–2016) writer, professor, political activist, Nobel Laureate, and Holocaust survivor
Hope, Despair, and Memory (1986)
Context: Because I remember, I despair. Because I remember, I have the duty to reject despair. I remember the killers, I remember the victims, even as I struggle to invent a thousand and one reasons to hope.