there are no beautiful suicides

[afterannabel]

Woodville, after Matilda tried to get him to join her in suicide:

Let us suppose that Socrates, or Shakespear, or Rousseau had been seized with despair and died in youth when they were as young as I am; do you think that we and all the world should not have lost incalculable improvement in our good feelings and our happiness thro' their destruction

Comments

[midsummermuse]

Thanks! That basically sums up much of my life's philosophy--hoping to make a difference in one of more lives other than my own. :-) Sounds like a good one <3