“the habit of despair is worse than despair itself.”

“There is not love of life without despair about life.”

“It is almost impossible to watch a clockwise direction - it gets extremely boring and causes despair.”

“He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool.”

“It is necessary to fall in love – the better to provide an alibi for all the despair we are going to feel anyway.”

“For if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.”

“To think the way you do, you have to be a man who lives either on a tremendous despair, or on a tremendous hope.On both perhaps.”