Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802–1838) English poet and novelist
The Golden Violet - The Child of the Sea
The Golden Violet (1827)
“Prayer is a bridge from despair to hope.”
Too Busy Not to Pray (2008, InterVarsity Press)
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“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.
Seneca the Younger (-4–65 BC) Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, and dramatist
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
“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.
Miguel de Unamuno (1864–1936) 19th-20th century Spanish writer and philosopher
Credo quia absurdam — I believe because it is absurd
The Tragic Sense of Life (1913), Conclusion : Don Quixote in the Contemporary European Tragi-Comedy
“The future belongs to those who can generate hope from the past rather than despair.”
Donal McKeown (1950) Roman Catholic bishop
Northern Ireland: Bloody Sunday commemorated 50 years on https://www.vaticannews.va/en/world/news/2022-01/northern-ireland-bloody-sunday-commemorated-50-years-on.html (29 January 2022)
“2542. Hope is as cheap as Despair.”
Thomas Fuller (writer) (1654–1734) British physician, preacher, and intellectual
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
“Absence from whom we love is worse than death,
And frustrate hope severer than despair.”
William Cowper (1731–1800) (1731–1800) English poet and hymnodist
"Hope, like the short-lived ray that gleams awhile", line 35.
“Despair exists only when there is hope.”
Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895–1986) Indian spiritual philosopher
11th Public Talk, London, UK (25 May 1961)
1960s
