“The way to despair is to refuse to have any kind of experience.”

“Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself.”

“Never refuse to do a kindness unless the act would work great injury to yourself, and never refuse to take a drink— — under any circumstances.”

“The second element in absolute faith is the dependence of the experience of nonbeing on the experience on being and the dependence of the experience of meaninglessness on the experience of meaning. even in the state of despair one has enough being to make despair possible.”

“Faith which refuses to face indisputable facts is but little faith. Truth is always gain, however hard it is to accommodate ourselves to it. To linger in any kind of untruth proves to be a departure from the straight way of faith.”

“You can approach the act of writing with nervousness, excitement, hopefulness, or despair… Come to it any way but lightly.”

“A hardness such as this is taught by rough experience and despair alone.”

“I refuse to be beaten in any way shape or form, so I'm gonna beat this too.”

“I have been trying all my life to like Scotchmen, and am obliged to desist from the experiment 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.”