“No one other than yourself could have given you a greater taste for life than for death.” — Édouard Levé Copy Share Image
“This selfishness of your suicide displeased you. But, all things considered, the lull of death won out over life’s painful commotion.” — Édouard Levé Copy Share Image
“Only once can I say “I’m dying” without telling a lie. The best day of my life may already be behind me.” — Edouard Leve Copy Share Image
“Fifteen years old is the middle of my life, regardless of when I die.” — Édouard Levé Copy Share Image
“Listening to music in the car is a way of passing the time, thus shortening my life.” — Édouard Levé Copy Share Image
“The homeless embodied the final stage in a decline your life could have tended toward. You did not take them for victims,… — Édouard Levé Copy Share Image
“Only the living seem incoherent. Death closes the series of events that constitutes their lives. So we resign ourselves to finding a… — Édouard Levé Copy Share Image
“Since you seldom spoke, you were rarely wrong. You seldom spoke because you seldom went out. If you did go out, you… — Edouard Levé Copy Share Image
“You did not fear death. You stepped in its path, but without really desiring it: how can one desire something one doesn’t… — Edouard Levé Copy Share Image
“Your suicide makes the lives of those who outlive you more intense. Should they be threatened by boredom, or tshould the absurdity… — Édouard Levé Copy Share Image
“Once you confessed to someone that you had been very depressed when dining with her several months earlier. She was stunned, discovering her blindness… — Édouard Levé Copy Share Image
“You couldn’t have been said to dance, exactly. Despite the music sounding around you, bodies being carried away by the whirling bass, it didn’t… — Edouard Levé Copy Share Image
“Only the living seem incoherent. Death closes the series of events that constitutes their lives. So we resign ourselves to finding a meaning for… — Édouard Levé Copy Share Image
“I am slow to notice when someone mistreats me, it’s always so surprising: evil is somehow unreal.” — Édouard Levé Copy Share Image
“You directed toward yourself a violence that you did not feel toward others. For them you reserved all your patience and tolerance.” — Édouard Levé Copy Share Image
“You didn’t identify with happy people, and in your excessiveness you projected onto those who had failed in everything, or succeeded in nothing.” — Édouard Levé Copy Share Image
“You had felt idle in this city through which you had paced only to kill time. But the emptiness that you believed yourself confronted… — Édouard Levé Copy Share Image
“In their beginnings, events preserve the potential that they lose in their completion. Desire prolongs itself so long as it is not achieved.” — Édouard Levé Copy Share Image
“You were said to have died of suffering. But there was not as much sadness in you as there is now in those who… — Édouard Levé Copy Share Image
