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.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
We have to go into the despair and go beyond it, by working and doing for somebody else, by using it for something else.
We define only out of despair, we must have a formula... to give a facade tot he void.
For me, it's not an option to despair. The question is: what can we do to make someone's life better? Take the unimaginable strides made in places like Bosnia, where I cut my teeth, and Rwanda. Their stories aren't perfect, but I wouldn't have dreamt they could happen in a million years.
Just as despair can come to one only from other human beings, hope, too, can be given to one only by other human beings.
If we openly declare what is wrong with us, what is our deepest need, then perhaps the death and despair will by degrees disappear.
Despair is a cop-out, the ultimate abdication of all responsibility, in which people feel justified in their feelings of impotence. But if, on the other hand, you feel that your work in the world does make a difference and that you do have the power to change things, the nay-sayers will turn a deaf ear.
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.
Action is the antidote to despair.
Despair is a narcotic. It lulls the mind into indifference.
We cannot despair of humanity, since we ourselves are human beings.