Quote by Emile Durkheim
Man could not live if he were entirely impervious to sadness. Many

Man could not live if he were entirely impervious to sadness. Many sorrows can be endured only by being embraced, and the pleasure taken in them naturally has a somewhat melancholy character. – Emile Durkheim

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Too cheerful a morality is a loose morality; it is appropriate only to decadent peoples and is found only among them. – Emile Durkheim

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Each victim of suicide gives his act a personal stamp which expresses his temperament, the special conditions in which he is involved, and which, consequently, cannot be explained by the social and general causes of the phenomenon. – Emile Durkheim

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Suicide
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From top to bottom of the ladder, greed is aroused without knowing where to find ultimate foothold. Nothing can calm it, since its goal is far beyond all it can attain. Reality seems valueless by comparison with the dreams of fevered imaginations; reality is therefore abandoned. – Emile Durkheim

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And almost everyone when age, disease, or sorrows strike him, inclines to think there is a God, or something very like him. – Arthur H. Clough

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The busy have no time for tears. – Lord (George Gordon) Byron

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Joys impregnate. Sorrows bring forth. – William Blake

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Never believe straight off in a mans unhappiness. Ask him if he can still sleep. If the answers yes, alls well. That is enough. – Louis-Ferdinand Celine

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Its something I want to overcome. And my kids are scared to death to fly. I want them to witness me overcome it. – Travis Barker

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We die daily. Happy those who daily come to life as well. – George MacDonald

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