Colton

“I have exhausted everything in me and around me, and that is irreparable.”
― Henri Roorda, My Suicide

“In a slim collection of philosopher Charles Secrétan’s reflections, I found these words: “In the creature’s love of God, the goal of creation is attained.”4 But if God wanted only to be worshipped, he could have found less cruel means.”
― Henri Roorda, My Suicide

“How often in life he has found himself a frustrated observer of apparently impenetrable systems, watching other people participate effortlessly in structures he can find no way to enter or even understand. So often that it’s practically baseline, just normal existence for him. And this is not only due to the irrational nature of other people, and the consequent irrationality of the rules and processes they devise; it’s due to Ivan himself, his fundamental unsuitedness to life. He knows this. He feels himself to have been formed, somehow, with something other than life in mind.”
― Sally Rooney, Intermezzo

“Over the course of a day my mood often changes. There are moments I forget that I will die. So I smile and hum the tunes that I like. There is still a great store of joyfulness in me.”
― Henri Roorda, My Suicide