“I can endure my own despair, but not another's hope”
“Of all the plagues a lover bears,Sure rivals are the worstI can endure my own despair, But not another’s hope.”
“Hindley, with apparently the stronger head, has shown himself sadly the worse and weaker man ... One hoped, the other despaired: they chose their own lots, and were righteously doomed to endure them.”
“With the need for the self in the time of another / I left my seaport grim and dear / knowing good work could be made / in the state governed by both Hope and Despair.”
“No matter how much bullying they inflict on my body, as long as I have this hope, I can endure any pain.”
“It's not the despair, Laura. I can take the despair. It's the hope I can't stand. ~ Brian Stimpson, Clockwise ”