Just as despair can come to one only from other human beings, hope, too, can be given to one only by other human beings.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
We cannot despair of humanity, since we ourselves are human beings.
But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
We have to go into the despair and go beyond it, by working and doing for somebody else, by using it for something else.
Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.
Despair is the damp of hell, as joy is the serenity of heaven.
There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.
Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.
So long as we have failed to eliminate any of the causes of human despair, we do not have the right to try to eliminate those means by which man tries to cleanse himself of despair.
Despair is a narcotic. It lulls the mind into indifference.
Our human compassion binds us the one to the other - not in pity or patronizingly, but as human beings who have learnt how to turn our common suffering into hope for the future.
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