“How unhappy does one have to be before living seems worse than dying?”
Source: Touching from a Distance: Ian Curtis and Joy Division
Quotes from book
Touching from a Distance
Touching from a Distance is a biography written by Deborah Curtis. It details her life and marriage with Ian Curtis, lead singer of the 1970s British post-punk rock band Joy Division. In the book, Deborah Curtis speaks of Ian's infidelity, their troubled marriage, Ian's volatile and sometimes troubled personality, and his health problems that likely led to his suicide in 1980, on the eve of Joy Division's first United States tour.
