

He was a national hero who sung for the communist regime. “I’m through with life… and should absolve from mutual hurts, afflictions and spleen.” Mayakovsky was one of the most well known figures of early 20th century Russian Futurism. Cynthia, his wife, wrote that she “cannot live without Arthur, despite certain inner resources”. In 1983, Koestler and his wife killed themselves with an overdose of barbiturates (Tuinal), taken with alcohol. This made writing difficult for him - a fact that depressed him beyond measure. Koestler was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease and terminal leukaemia. The famous author/journalist who wrote the anti-Soviet classic - Darkness at Noon. Like Conan, he wasn’t afraid of death and he died, as he had lived, by the sword. Though Howard was quite successful and his stories were in demand, he suffered from inferiority complex and thought his peers downgraded him. It might have been due to his failed relationship with Novalyne Price, or his financial troubles as the struggling Weird Tales couldn’t pay him, or his feelings for his mother who was about to die. I want to die when my time comes, quickly and suddenly, in the full tide of my strength and health.’ And young he died for Howard was just 30 years old when he shot himself in the head. It is believed that his family had a history of mental illness. Hemingway’s father, brother, and sister committed suicide too. One fine morning, he woke up and wore a gown he called “the Emperor’s robe” and shot himself with his favorite shotgun. A mighty Nobel Prize and worldwide fame couldn’t stop Hemingway from committing suicide. The master of descriptive writing, an idealist in love with the color and sensuality of Spain, a volatile drinker - that’s being Ernest. On 28 March 1941, she wrote a note to her husband and drowned herself in the river Ouse. She was sexually abused by her cousins, traumatized by World War II, which destroyed her London home and was a victim of depression all her life. But there was another side to Woolf’s life. Dalloway and To the Lighthouse - are widely regarded as masterpieces. She was one of the foremost modernist writers of the twentieth century. Here are five incredible writers who succumbed to an agonized life: And creativity claimed the life of the creator.

But they were cursed with a tortured mind.
