“Despair has its own calms.”
“I passed to my room and went to be, and, strange to say, slept without dreaming. despair has it's own calms.”
“Suicide is an attack on society--an attack on its omnipotence, on its denial of death, and on its own despair.”
“At its best our age is an age of searchers and discoverers, and at its worst, an age that has domesticated despair and learned to live with it happily.”
“The small seed of despair cracks open and sends experimental tendrils upward to the fragile skin of calm holding him together.”
“Everyone struggles against despair, but it always wins in the end. It has to. It's the thing that lets us say goodbye.”