D04 · Despair and Nihilism
Existential despair and hopelessness
The crisis of the self when hope collapses or when one despairs of being oneself.
Cues
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“For practical life at any rate, the CHANCE of salvation is enough. No fact in human nature is more characteristic than its willingness to live on a chance. The existence of the chance makes the difference ... between a life of which the keynote is resignation and a life of which the keynote is hope.”
“For sometimes even to live is an act of courage.”