Discouragement (n.) is a gym membership in February.
Discouragement (n.) is quitting before the decision has been made.
Discouragement (n.) is like a slow leak, you notice it once you are already riding on the rim.
Discouragement (n.) is the mood that makes the next attempt look expensive.
Hopelessness (n.) is tiring in a way that sleep does not fix.
Hopelessness (n.) is like a window painted over so long ago you forget it was a window.
Hopelessness (n.) is the peace of no longer having to imagine a later.
Hopelessness (n.) is a thing which, if you can share it, there's hope.
Pessimism (n.) in philosophy is among the comical things: the total value of the world is unevaluable — there is nothing to measure it against.
Pessimism (n.) can be the darkening before a storm: forces grow within us with no way to discharge — a doctrine that shows them a direction brings happiness by releasing them.
Pessimism (n.) can also be the darkness before a storm — the pressure of plenitude, forces that do not yet know how to discharge themselves.
Pessimism (n.) of indignation invents responsibility to give itself a pleasant feeling — revenge, "sweeter than honey."
Resignation (n.) is the insect's trick of playing dead, dressed up as a chosen virtue.
Resignation (n.) is their name for modestly embracing a small happiness — while already squinting about for the next one.
Resignation (n.) is the most comfortable position of an invalid who, tossing in torment to find it, grew tired of tossing — and thereby found it.
Resignation (n.) is not to be practised unless it is quite necessary.