Nor dread nor hope attend a dying animal; a man awaits his end dreading and hoping all.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.
I look forward without dogmatic optimism but without dread.
Everyone wishes that the man whom he fears would perish.
Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.
The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.
There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.
Blessed is he that expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.
Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.
Lucky that man whose children make his happiness in life and not his grief, the anguished disappointment of his hopes.
Death, only, renders hope futile.