SO GOOD QUOTES

But when despondency settled into him, and revealed its power in devouring, exhausting, and consuming him with its teeth, becoming unbearable to him, then what he formerly considered to be the heaviest burden of all [i.e. death], he now considers to be lighter than this [i.e. despondency]. So, too, Jonah, in fleeing from despair, sought refuge in death, saying, “Take my life from me, for it is better for me to die than to live.”

—Saint John Chrysostom, Letters to Saint Olympia