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21441324 No.21441324 [Reply] [Original]

Is there any piece of literature that was depressing to the point it made you contemplate suicide?

>> No.21441333

>>21441324
No. I am not weak nor a woman.

>> No.21441334

>>21441333
basado

>> No.21441337
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>>21441324
Chekhov's Ward No. 6

>> No.21441340

>>21441333
>>21441334
I just want something to read while depressed so it can make me even more depressed
>>21441337
I will check it out

>> No.21441342
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>>21441324
This is like the 3rd thread we have right now about depressing/suicide literature.
Didn't have a good Christmas anons?

>> No.21441360

>>21441342
I didn't have a good life

>> No.21441364

Denial of Death

>> No.21441422

>>21441360
Boo hoo. Get a ticket to a third world country then or an island nation. Your dollars go far there. Then you can get a WFH job that pays in US dollars. Cry some more you lazy nigger.

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>Boo hoo. Get a ticket to a third world country then or an island nation. Your dollars go far there. Then you can get a WFH job that pays in US dollars. Cry some more you lazy nigger.

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>>21441422
>improved material conditions will not make you happy so long as you don't overcome desire
WOW! so wise!
>I feel miserable despite having material comforts
Uhhhh chuddy, did you forget that there are poor people?

>> No.21441732

>>21441457
>>21441430
Your life suck because you have a shitty attitude. Starving niggers in Africa are happy and don't wish death upon themselves.

>> No.21441778

>>21441732
that's because their iq is lower by at least and entire standard deviation

>> No.21441906

The loser, Bernhard
A gentle creature, Dostoevsky
A man asleep, Perec
Suicide, Levé
The moon and the bonfires, Pavese
The death of Ivan Ilyich, Tolstoy
The desert of the tartars, Buzatti
Journey to the End of the Night, Céline

>> No.21442210

>>21441324
My diary desu

>> No.21442216

>>21441906
None of those books are depressing, you mentally weak loser.

>> No.21442314

>>21441732
How did you even finish on this board, and site for that matter

>> No.21442331

>>21441324
>OH NOOOOO I FEEL BAD AHHHHHH ALL THE SUFFERING OF ORGANIC LIFE NOT COMPARE TO THIS

>> No.21442375

>>21442331
>ALL THE SUFFERING OF ORGANIC LIFE NOT COMPARE TO THIS

What about inorganic life you fucking bigot?

>> No.21442397

>>21441324
Seize the Day by Saul Bellow fucking destroyed me.

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Is pretty sad but not enough to make you suicide or something. It's just a sad tale

>> No.21443467

>>21441324
Capitalist realism.
I don't even agree with everything fisher says, but the book has caused me a lasting demotivation and malaise which i always had to some extent.

Also i no longer enjoy some types of media now that some of it seems rehashed. How do i unironically cope bros. Any actually life affirming or sort of positive books you guys can recommend?

>> No.21443706

I thought Requiem for a Dream was a little bit depresso. I actually cried a little bit after finishing it, I've never done that before in my life

>> No.21444634

>>21442331
>>21441422
>>21441333
>>21441342
OP asked for depressing literature to read, not deal autistic optimists. Why is it such a big deal to get recommendations what books to read?

>> No.21444673

>>21444634
I'm >>21441342 not an autistic "optimist" there were literally 5 other threads that dealt with this topic when he decided to create a new one for no reason

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21444713

>>21444673
ah apologies then, I don't really browse here as much as I should. i've been too busy getting drunk all the time sadly.

>> No.21444724

>>21441324
I fucking hate depressed people

>> No.21444757

>>21444724
Why do you hate depressed people anon? What bothers you so?

>> No.21445400

I don't much like Dostoevski, but one paragraph of his really hits home. In fact, I feel like he's written the entire Karamazov brothers just to express this sentiment in this way.
Dmitri is fucking dismayed at mankind. For him, "man is too broad", and "ought to have been made narrower." He can't reason with how one man can start out from the principle of the Madonna, and end up with the principle of Sodom.
Even at my first reading, this passage pierced me. It is more penetrating now.
This man, not exactly my best friend, but a "brother" nonetheless, was one of the best people you could meet. I don't mean he was good company, but he was a force of good. My mother liked him because he would help her with carrying her groceries, he often lent me his electronics for a very, very long time, he would always lend you his last dime and ruin his plans if you so much as asked. Kek, he has recently caught a rape case.
It's really mystifying how one man can start out so gentle and end up so wicked.
I myself can't reason with it, neither can his mother, or mine, or our friends.
I find it "depressing", if you want.

>> No.21445404

>>21441324
No. But The Book of Disquiet did knock me out for a few weeks.