despair

Soren Kierkegaard

radicalism

struggle

is a narcotic. It lulls the mind into indifference.

Despair is a narcotic. It lulls the mind into indifference. Charlie Chaplin

is a negativity... ignorance of it, a new negativity, and like a legend about breaking a magic spell, it has to be played through backwards or the spell is not broken.

Despair itself is a negativity... ignorance of it, a new negativity. However, to reach the truth, one must go through every negativity, for the old legend about breaking a certain magic spell is true: the piece has to be played through backwards or the spell is not broken.

is a shrewd and sympathetic counselor which allows a person to erase himself from the number of the living.

It takes courage not to surrender to the shrewd or sympathetic counsel of despair that allows a person to erase himself from the number of the living... but this does not necessarily mean that every sausage peddler, fed and fattened on self-confidence, has more courage than the person who succumbed to despair.

is a state in which one is not acknowledged by eternity, to never have been known by it, or still more terrible, to have been known by eternity as one is known, binding oneself to oneself in despair.

[I]f you have lived in despair, then, regardless of what else you won or lost, everything is lost for you, eternity does not acknowledge you, it never knew you'or, still more terrible, it knows you as you are known and it binds you to yourself in despair.

is any life-view that has a condition outside itself.

But every life-view that has a condition outside itself is despair.

is like froward children, who, when you take away one of their playthings, throw the rest into the fire for madness.

Despair is like froward children, who, when you take away one of their playthings, throw the rest into the fire for madness

is personality's doubt, just as doubt is thought's despair.

Doubt is thought's despair... despair is personality's doubt.

is reserved only for those who have hoped.

He who has never hoped can never despair George Bernard Shaw

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despair