“Never despair…”
Book I, ode vii, line 27
Odes (c. 23 BC and 13 BC)
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Horace92
Roman lyric poet -65–-8 BCRelated quotes
“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)
Act I, scene ii. Compare: "To public feasts, where meet a public rout,— Where they that are without would fain go in, And they that are within would fain go out", John Davies, Contention betwixt a Wife, etc.
The White Devil (1612)
“You are never stronger… than when you land on the other side of despair.”
Zadie Smith book White Teeth
Source: White Teeth
“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
