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Despair
A level of despair is reached,where people are willing to die to punish their tormentors.
-William Kammeraad-Campbell,a retired Miami University professor of political science
When the tide of life turns against you
And the current upsets your boat,
Don't waste tears on what might have been,
Just lie on your back and float.
-Anon.
It is not hard to live through a day,if you can live through a moment. What creates despair is the imagination,which pretends there is a future,and insists on predicting millions of moments,thousands of days,and so drains you that you cannot live the moment at hand.
-André Dubus
Now the standard cure for one who is sunk is to consider those in actual destitution or physical suffering—this is an all-weather beatitude for gloom in general and fairly salutary day-time advice for everyone. But at three o’clock in the morning,a forgotten package has the same tragic importance as a death sentence,and the cure doesn’t work—and in a real dark night of the soul it is always three o’clock in the morning,day after day. At that hour the tendency is to refuse to face things as long as possible by retiring into an infantile dream - but one is continually startled out of this by various contacts with the world.
-F. Scott Fitzgerald,from "Pasting it Together" published in "The Crack-Up",March,1936
"I don't want any promises,I won't have false hopes,I won't be romantic about myself. I can't live in their world any longer,she told herself,listening to the voices back of her. Let them tell their stories to each other. Let them go on explaining how things happened. I don't care. At least I can know the truth about what happens to me,she assured herself silently,making a promise to herself,in her hopefulness,her ignorance."
-Katherine Anne Porter
Life begins on the other side of despair.
"La vie commence lautre cot du desespoir"
-Jean-Paul Sartre
"The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation. From the desperate city you go into the desperate country,and have to console yourself with the bravery of minks and muskrats. A stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed even under what are called the games and amusements of mankind. There is no play in them,for this comes after work. But it is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things."
-Henry David Thoreau.
-William Kammeraad-Campbell,a retired Miami University professor of political science
When the tide of life turns against you
And the current upsets your boat,
Don't waste tears on what might have been,
Just lie on your back and float.
-Anon.
It is not hard to live through a day,if you can live through a moment. What creates despair is the imagination,which pretends there is a future,and insists on predicting millions of moments,thousands of days,and so drains you that you cannot live the moment at hand.
-André Dubus
Now the standard cure for one who is sunk is to consider those in actual destitution or physical suffering—this is an all-weather beatitude for gloom in general and fairly salutary day-time advice for everyone. But at three o’clock in the morning,a forgotten package has the same tragic importance as a death sentence,and the cure doesn’t work—and in a real dark night of the soul it is always three o’clock in the morning,day after day. At that hour the tendency is to refuse to face things as long as possible by retiring into an infantile dream - but one is continually startled out of this by various contacts with the world.
-F. Scott Fitzgerald,from "Pasting it Together" published in "The Crack-Up",March,1936
"I don't want any promises,I won't have false hopes,I won't be romantic about myself. I can't live in their world any longer,she told herself,listening to the voices back of her. Let them tell their stories to each other. Let them go on explaining how things happened. I don't care. At least I can know the truth about what happens to me,she assured herself silently,making a promise to herself,in her hopefulness,her ignorance."
-Katherine Anne Porter
Life begins on the other side of despair.
"La vie commence lautre cot du desespoir"
-Jean-Paul Sartre
"The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation. From the desperate city you go into the desperate country,and have to console yourself with the bravery of minks and muskrats. A stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed even under what are called the games and amusements of mankind. There is no play in them,for this comes after work. But it is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things."
-Henry David Thoreau.