“The difference between a non-suicide and an ex-suicide leaving the house for work, at eight o'clock on an ordinary morning: The non-suicide is a little traveling suck of care, sucking care with him from the past and being sucked toward care in the future. His breath is high in his chest. The ex-suicide opens his front door, sits down on the steps, and laughs. Since he has the option of being dead, he has nothing to lose by being alive. It is good to be alive. He goes to work because he doesn't have to.” LittlesCarePastHouseLosesDifferencesStepsMorningLaughingAliveDoorsFrontsOrdinaryBreathsSuicideLeavingEightClockChestsExesNothing To LoseFront Doors Book:Lost in the Cosmos: The Last Self-Help Book Source: Lost in the Cosmos: The Last Self-Help Book
“For some time now the impression has been growing upon me that everyone is dead. It happens when I speak to people. In the middle of a sentence it will come over me: yes, beyond a doubt this is death. There is little to do but groan and make an excuse and slip away as quickly as one can.” PeopleLittlesHas BeensHappensSpeakDoubtGrowingMiddleExcuseSentencesImpressionSlips Book:The Moviegoer Source: The Moviegoer
“If poets often commit suicide, it is not because their poems are bad but because they are good. Whoever heard of a bad poet committing suicide? The reader is only a little better off. The exhilaration of a good poem lasts twenty minutes, an hour at most. Unlike the scientist, the artist has reentry problems that are frequent and catastrophic.” IfsLittlesProblemLastsArtistHoursHeardMinutesPoetReaderScientistTwentiesSuicideCommitBetter OffExhilarationCommitting SuicideRe Entry Book:Lost in the Cosmos: The Last Self-Help Book Source: Lost in the Cosmos: The Last Self-Help Book
“It is not a bad thing to settle for the Little Way, not the big search for the big happiness but the sad little happiness of drinks and kisses, a good little car and a warm deep thigh.” WayLittlesBigsCarDrinkKissingWarmSettlingBad ThingsThighs Book:The Moviegoer Source: The Moviegoer
