“It's not the despair, Laura, I can stand the despair. It's the hope.”
Clockwise (1986), cited from Malcolm Page File on Frayn (London: Methuen, 1994) p. 65.
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“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)
“If you are wise, mingle these two elements: do not hope without despair, or despair without hope.”
Si sapis, alterum alteri misce: nec speraveris sine desperatione nec desperaveris sine spe.
Alternate translation: Hope not without despair, despair not without hope. (translated by Zachariah Rush).
Source: Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter CIV: On Care of Health and Peace of Mind, Line 12
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Context: Let us not be deceived — we are today in the midst of a cold war. Our enemies are to be found abroad and at home. Let us never forget this: Our unrest is the heart of their success. The peace of the world is the hope and the goal of our political system; it is the despair and defeat of those who stand against us.
“2542. Hope is as cheap as Despair.”
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
Credo quia absurdam — I believe because it is absurd
The Tragic Sense of Life (1913), Conclusion : Don Quixote in the Contemporary European Tragi-Comedy
“I hope that the kind reader recognises this as a despairing attempt at humour.”
“Despair exists only when there is hope.”
11th Public Talk, London, UK (25 May 1961)
1960s