I live only because it is in my power to die when I choose to: without the idea of suicide, I'd have killed myself right away.
Emile M. CioranOnly one endowed with restless vitality is susceptible to pessimism. You become a pessimist-a demonic, elemental, bestial pessimist-only when life has been defeated many times in its fight against depression.
Emile M. Cioran