Irrecuperable

And thus, as a closer and still closer intimacy  admitted me more unreservedly into the recesses of his spirit, the more bitterly did I perceived the futility of all atempt at cheering a mind from which darkness, as if  an inherent  positive quality, poured forth upon all objects of the moral  and physical universe in one unceasing radiation of gloom.

                                                                                   

  The Fall of the  House  of Usher

  Edgar Allan Poe