“I never lost hope, and never did I despair of coming back alive.”
James Robinson Risner (1925–2013) Recipient of the Purple Heart medal
Source: "Nine Feet Tall" in Air Force Magazine https://www.airforcemag.com/article/0212tall/ (1 February 2012)
Aldo Leopold book A Sand County Almanac
“April: Draba”, p. 26.
A Sand County Almanac, 1949, "April: Come High Water," "April: Draba," "April: Bur Oak," & "April:Sky Dance"
“Who can hope for nothing should despair of nothing.”
Original: (la) Qui nil potest sperare, desperate nihil.
Source: Tragedies, Medea (c. 50 CE), Line 163 (trans. A. J. Boyle)
“Hope was an instinct only the reasoning human mind could kill. An animal never knew despair.”
Graham Greene book The Power and the Glory
Source: The Power and the Glory
“It's not the despair, Laura, I can stand the despair. It's the hope.”
Michael Frayn (1933) British writer
Clockwise (1986), cited from Malcolm Page File on Frayn (London: Methuen, 1994) p. 65.
