On the Causes of Frequent Suicide: A Psychological Treatise

indeed even fought at the risk of his life. But just as a region often seems more beautiful and charming to us from a distance than it actually appears to the eye when viewed up close, so it is also for humans regarding the future, which shines toward them so gloriously and joyfully; so they are often deceived in their expectation and hope for better times, for happy days, for a more carefree and sorrowless life as a replacement for the hard burdens of a gloomy past. It is true that it is not possible for the wishes of all, which often run directly contrary to one another, to be satisfied; nevertheless, the hopes of many, upon which they built, have remained unfulfilled. They find themselves disappointed in their expectations; they do not come into possession of the good for which they