Single Idea 23067

[catalogued under 25. Social Practice / F. Life Issues / 4. Suicide]

Full Idea

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

Gist of Idea

Suicide is pointless, because it always comes too late

Source

E.M. Cioran (The Trouble with Being Born [1973], 02)

Book Reference

Cioran,E.M.: 'The Trouble with Being Born', ed/tr. Richard Howard [Penguin 2012], p.27


A Reaction

A neat thought, but unlikely to be true for those who commit suicide, which presumably results from a sustained and apparently incurable situation.