If we openly declare what is wrong with us, what is our deepest need, then perhaps the death and despair will by degrees disappear.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
You know one of the causes of modern despair is the fact that we have had proposed to us, from various quarters, an impossible perfection.
If nothing else, there's comfort in recognising that no matter how much we fail and sin, death will limit our suffering.
When we have lost everything, including hope, life becomes a disgrace, and death a duty.
As citizens of a free society, we have a duty to look critically at our world. But if we think we know what is wrong, we must act upon that knowledge.
Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.
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.
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.
We cannot despair of humanity, since we ourselves are human beings.
We define only out of despair, we must have a formula... to give a facade tot he void.