Books for when you've fucked your own life up beyond repair, and feel that it isn't worth living anymore?
The Anatomy of Melancholy, What it is: With all the Kinds, Causes, Symptomes, Prognostickes, and Several Cures of it. In Three Maine Partitions with their several Sections, Members, and Subsections. Philosophically, Medicinally, Historically, Opened and Cut Up
>>25005962The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle
Tartar steppe
>>25005967i love this book, but i can't imagine enjoying it unless i was already feeling pretty comfy.
>>25005984if op wants to kill himself maybe
>>25005962Reading Henry Miller made me not depressed anymore. Filled me with a vigor for life. Start with Tropic of Cancer
>>25005962The Bible if you want to fix that.
Lord Jim
>>25005962Hagakure
Basic mathematics by serge lang
>>25006455how the fuck does a math book help op?
>>25005962The consolation of philosophy in combination with Ecclesiastes, Wisdom, Gospel of John.
>>25005962Firstly, although it's not what you want to hear, I feel obliged to say that a book might well not be the answer. Going for a walk is much more likely to help.OK, so you want a book. Not sure if you want something to survive the next few days, or something a bit more long-term.If the former, these general things have worked for me:— Pure escapism. The key is to find somethig good enough to keep you engaged (if your mind is free to wander it will wander back to your problems) but also not so hard that you get tired and lose concentration (with the same result). Fantasy / sci-fi / historical are less likely to mention something that will remind you of your current existence.— Very grim non-fiction. This might seem a bit odd but more than once I have found great comfort in Kolyma Tales by Varlam Shalamov. The point is that however bad I thought things were, they were not as bad as that. It put things in perspective.— Oddball things. If you're in a distraught state, you might find weird, inexplicable books give you the comfort you need, for reasons you don't understand. So just try things at random. I remember one time at an extremely low ebb I read a semi-humorous book of scathing restaurant reviews by a famously acid-tongued London food critic. It was the only thing I could stand to read. No idea why.If the latter, then I would say, forget books of wise philosophical advice. Consolation of Philosophy and so on are just a waste of time. Read something practical that feels useful to you. Basic Mathematics wasn't a terrible idea, If you already know basic mathematics, find some area of mathematics that you don't know and learn about that. Or any practical skill. Learn how to cook. If you can cook, learn how to cook better. Again, speaking from experience, I have found that just finding some small area where I can make a little bit of quantifiable progress can be all that's needed.
>>25005962Something that always puzzles me is how my mind, my brain, my body, my soul…I don’t know what it is, can create this absurd sense of happiness while at the same time time creating this absolute voidness; it is almost as if the happier I am, the more sustained I feel by someone or something, the more I must dread being alive, as if I constantly expect to lose it all, and to fall, ever deeper, into despair the next moment. And it is as though I want to feel it. As though I want to feel pain, emptiness, suffering. It is as if my body is diseased by a sort of plague that forbids me from ever enjoying myself too much, feeling too much love or too much tenderness, and so it gets numb to the touch of others and to their smile. And do they really love me? I know there will be moments where I will be lonely again. And then I am lonely again, and that feels so much more familiar. Loneliness. It is all pervasive. My body is loneliness. The night is pure loneliness. She swallows me and the blackness underneath my eyes grows thicker, as if the skin was stained, as if no amount of sleep could ever wash it away. People can see the tiredness. But they do not see the loneliness behind the smile. I fear that I have nothing to live for. Sometimes I wish someone would just kill me.
>>25005962The courage to be disliked
>>25005962Industrial Society and its Future, absolutely ruined my life as we watch it get proven correct on the daily.
>>25005962Malaparte's core thesis, which is restated over and over again throughout, is that a successful coup d'etat is a simple technical matter; far removed from ideologies or 'dialectical materialism' nonsense. A few dozen young men, armed with automatic weapons and fortified by the will to succeed, seizing control of a few key levers of State power, has been sufficient time and time again to change the course of history.
>>25006410only answer. Start with the new testament then go back and read the OT.
>>25005962The Death of Ivan Ilyich by Tolstoy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91gT68xeDMM
>>25005962Doctrine of Awakening
>>25005962The Consolation of Philosophy is what you want. Can't fuck up your life much more than Boethius did, he wrote the work while on house arrest awaiting death by torture after getting betrayed by his monarch and losing everything he spent his life building.
>>25008156best translation(s)? was thinking about using multiple
>>25005962tell me in what way you're fucked and I give you the book that sets your path straight
I was a NEET for 5 years, had no friends and had never had a job before then so my life was truly 'fucked' but I've managed to stay employed now for 7 months The books I read the most was Zhuangzi and Essays in IdlenessHonestly I feel like after this my mind broke a little bit>>25010508Thanks, downloaded this
>>25010727Was Essays in Idleness really that good?For me, it was reading Siddhartha that helped me get through a bad period in life.
>>25007198Fag.
>>25007232Tip submitted :)
