“I have seen this too many times before. The unwarranted devotion. Putting up with the fear of being with the wrong person because you can’t deal with the fear of being alone. The hope tinged with doubt, and the doubt tinged with hope.”
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“Fear (in times of doubt the worst of prophets) revolves many things.”
Plurima versat,
pessimus in dubiis augur, timor.
Source: Thebaid, Book III, Line 5
“I have searched, I have indistinctly seen, I have doubted. Now, I hope.”
Light (1919), Ch. XXII - Light
Context: The eye is lost in all directions among the desolation where the multitude of men and women are hiding, as always and as everywhere.
That is what is. Who will say, "That is what must be!"
I have searched, I have indistinctly seen, I have doubted. Now, I hope.
Signs of Change (1888), How We Live And How We Might Live
Context: Fear and Hope — those are the names of the two great passions which rule the race of man, and with which revolutionists have to deal; to give hope to the many oppressed and fear to the few oppressors, that is our business; if we do the first and give hope to the many, the few must be frightened by their hope; otherwise we do not want to frighten them; it is not revenge we want for poor people, but happiness; indeed, what revenge can be taken for all the thousands of years of the sufferings of the poor?
“Will you never grow up?"
"I doubt it, and I certainly hope not.”
Source: The Seeress of Kell
Love, Hope and Beauty
The Improvisatrice (1824)
“If a person has no hope, he is truly blessed because that person has no fear of failure.”
“Ah, never fear; death could be trusted to show up. No doubt well before she wanted it.”
Source: Blue Mars (1996), Chapter 12, “It Goes So Fast” (p. 603)