SO GOOD QUOTES

Despondency: breezy love, tramper of steps, hater of love of work, fight against solitude, thunderstorm of psalmody, aversion to prayer, slackening of asceticism, ill-timed slumber, sleep, tossing and turning, burden of solitude, hatred of the cell, adversary of ascetical efforts, counter-attacking against endurance, impediment to reflection, ignorance of the Scriptures, companion of sadness, daily rhythm of hunger.

—Evagrius Ponticus

Despondency, Gabriel Bunge