Man får i vanlig ordning söka stöd, ja till och med tröst, i den högre litteraturen. Det finns andra som varit missmodiga och som klarat sig ändå. Som t.ex George Orwell, Down and Out in London and Paris:

"And there is another feeling that is a great consolation in poverty. I believe everyone who has been hard up has experienced it. It is a feeling of relief, almost of pleasure, at knowing yourself at last genuinely down and out. You have talked so often of going to the dogs - and well, here are the dogs, and you have reached them, and you can stand it. It takes off a lot of anxiety."