What characterizes despair is just this - that it is ignorant of being despair. (p. 75)

What we call worldliness simply consists of such people who, if one may so express it, pawn themselves to the world. (p. 65)

What afflicts the adult is not to much the illusion of hope as, no doubt among other things, the grotesque illusion of looking down from some supposedly higher…

If I have ventured wrongly, very well, life then helps me with its penalty. But if I haven't ventured at all, who helps me then? (pp. 64 - 65)