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Studies in Pessimism
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Patrick Rothfuss
“Some days simply lay on you like stones.”
Patrick Rothfuss, The Slow Regard of Silent Things

William Shakespeare
“The art of our necessities is strange
That can make vile things precious.”
William Shakespeare, King Lear

Alfred Tennyson
“I must lose myself in action, lest I wither in despair.”
Alfred Lord Tennyson

Sam Taylor
“But hope, I can tell you, is an exhausting emotion; perhaps, along with fear, the most exhausting of all. It is like juggling eggs: the hope is the shell, and inside is despair. A single crack and the despair might spill everywhere, stain everything.”
Sam Taylor

Gerard Manley Hopkins
“No worst, there is none. Pitched past pitch of grief,
More pangs will, schooled at forepangs, wilder wring.
Comforter, where, where is your comforting?
Mary, mother of us, where is your relief?
My cries heave, herds-long; huddle in a main, a chief-
woe, world-sorrow; on an age-old anvil wince and sing —
Then lull, then leave off. Fury had shrieked 'No ling-
ering! Let me be fell: force I must be brief'.
O the mind, mind has mountains; cliffs of fall
Frightful, sheer, no-man-fathomed. Hold them cheap
May who ne'er hung there. Nor does long our small
Durance deal with that steep or deep. Here! creep,
Wretch, under a comfort serves in a whirlwind: all
Life death does end and each day dies with sleep.”
Gerard Manley Hopkins, The Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins

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