Victor Hugo Quotes

...we ask: Why suicide? We search for reasons, causes, and so on.... We follow the course of the life he has now so suddenly terminated as far back as we can. For days we are preoccupied with the question: Why suicide? We recollect details. And yet we must say that everything in the suicide's life- for now we know that all his life he was a suicide, led a suicide's existence- is part of the cause, the reason, for his suicide.

Just having the pain of being alive without anything else, whether it's good or bad. There's a lot of serious songs on the record, you know. That song is just about feeling like a fish out of water, feeling like you don't belong on the planet sometimes.

The idea of suicide is of a very set narrative, as if killing yourself is a definitive statement. But it can be just as meaningless as throwing a stone in a river.

When one realizes that his life is worthless he either commits suicide or travels.

Sometimes I wonder if suicides aren't in fact sad guardians of the meaning of life.

For boredom speaks the language of time, and it is to teach you the most valuable lesson of your life - the lesson of your utter insignificance.

When not deeply engaged in creative activities, or numbed out by the TV, I felt empty. My heart hurt. I often felt hollow or as if I were some sort of wispy ghost, barely existing.

The counterpart of the suicide is the seeker; but the difference between them is slight.

Life in a box is better than no life at all... I expect.

The greatest tragedy is not death, but life without purpose.

Im either running from life or im just waiting to die im the supplier or fire if you chasing a high.

I would feel real trapped in this life if I didn't know I could commit suicide at any time.

Sometimes the world seems like a big hole. You spend all your life shouting down it and all you hear are echoes of some idiot yelling nonsense down a hole.

People should always have something which they prefer to life.

For death is not the worst, but when one wants to die and is not able even to have that.

Death is easier than a wretched life; and better never to have born than to live and fare badly.

A lot of people want to die for a lot of reasons.

We might as well die as to go on living like this.

But he who dies in despair has lived his whole life in vain.

When you've nothing to live for, you get to thinking inside your head.

I think quite often a fate worse than death is life, for lots of people.

You know that day after day of, Oh God what am I going to do with myself feeling? The fear of the emptiness that it implies keeps me going.

Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing.

It is not worth the bother of killing yourself, since you always kill yourself too late.

Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.