/lit/ - Literature

>>13391451
Even if you're not religious, perhaps you might consider the ways in which killing yourself (let's not coat this with vague Latinate words or roundabout neutral phrases like "ending my life") is just as much about lashing out at the world around you to harm them as it is about punishing yourself, or ending your suffering.

>Not only is suicide a sin, it is the sin. It is the ultimate and absolute evil, the refusal to take an interest in existence; the refusal to take the oath of loyalty to life. The man who kills a man, kills a man. The man who kills himself, kills all men; as far as he is concerned he wipes out the world. His act is worse (symbolically considered) than any rape or dynamite outrage. For it destroys all buildings: it insults all women. The thief is satisfied with diamonds; but the suicide is not: that is his crime. He cannot be bribed, even by the blazing stones of the Celestial City. The thief compliments the things he steals, if not the owner of them. But the suicide insults everything on earth by not stealing it. He defiles every flower by refusing to live for its sake. There is not a tiny creature in the cosmos at whom his death is not a sneer. When a man hangs himself on a tree, the leaves might fall off in anger and the birds fly away in fury: for each has received a personal affront. Of course there may be pathetic emotional excuses for the act. There often are for rape, and there almost always are for dynamite. But if it comes to clear ideas and the intelligent meaning of things, then there is much more rational and philosophic truth in the burial at the cross-roads and the stake driven through the body, than in Mr. Archer's suicidal automatic machines. There is a meaning in burying the suicide apart. The man's crime is different from other crimes -- for it makes even crimes impossible.

Please reconsider dude, even if you're in a really shitty place, there's still every opportunity to turn it around until you get to the point where you choose to settle for the way things are, and declare that's how they always will be.

>>12943280
Thanks, now I want to kill myself again.

>feel depressed
>do productive manual labour
>it disappears

Really makes you think...

>>9979117
What Men Live By and Other Tales by Leo Tolstoy

http://www.online-literature.com/tolstoy/2738/

Because i work 12 hours a day at a desk-job, i got time for books. But they have to be bite sized. I finished pic related yesterday, what else do you lads recommend me?

http://www.online-literature.com/tolstoy/2738/


What do you believe is the moral behind this story?

>Late in life, James Joyce wrote to his daughter that it is "the greatest story that the literature of the world knows";[1] Ludwig Wittgenstein was another well-known admirer.[2]