
“Hope deferred is sickness to the heart — and she was now suffering that sickness, at its worst.”
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“Hope deferred is sickness to the heart — and she was now suffering that sickness, at its worst.”
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“A fine world in which man reproaches woman with fulfilling his heart's desire!”
Half-Truths and One-And-A-Half Truths (1976)
“There is said to be hope for a sick man, as long as there is life.”
Aegroto dum anima est, spes esse dicitur.
Epistulae ad Atticum (Letters to Atticus) Book IX, Letter X, section 3
Often paraphrased as: Dum anima est, spes est ("While there is life there is hope")
Compare: "While there's life there’s hope, and only the dead have none." Theocritus, Idyll 4, line 42; as translated A. S. F. Gow
Quoted in "Nazi conspiracy and aggression, Vol. 2" - Page 919 - 1946.
1940s
“So long as there is life in the sick man, it is said that there is hope.”
Epistulae ad Atticum (Letters to Atticus) Book IX, Letter X, section 3
Often paraphrased as: Dum anima est, spes est ("While there is life there is hope")
Compare: "While there's life there's hope, and only the dead have none." Theocritus, Idyll 4, line 42; as translated A. S. F. Gow
Original: (la) Aegroto dum anima est, spes esse dicitur.
Lecture XXX, Atheism alone a Positive View
Lectures on the Essence of Religion http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/feuerbach/works/lectures/index.htm (1851)
St. 3
The Tower (1928), Sailing to Byzantium http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1575/
“If any organism fails to fulfill its potentialities, it becomes sick.”
“O pray the earth enfold
Our life-sick hearts and turn them into dust.”
A Last Word (1899).
“I have so much of desire that desire itself is my fulfillment.”
The Secrets of Ishbar (1996)