“Hope deferred is sickness to the heart — and she was now suffering that sickness, at its worst.”

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon, The Cabinet of Modern Art, and Literary Souvenir, 1837

About Letitia Elizabeth Landon

1802 – 1838

English poet and novelist, who wrote as "L.E.L."

“No thoroughly occupied man was ever yet very miserable.”

“Methinks adieu / Is cold, when uttered with aught else but tears.”

“Yes ; look thro' the world, and this truth you will find / That, once out of sight, you are soon out of mind.”

“A wise man will not leave the right to the mercy of chance, nor wish it to prevail through the power of the majority.”

“On our earth we can only love with suffering and through suffering.”

“Love in dreams is greedy for immediate action, rapidly performed and in the sight of all.”

“Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be.”

“Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart.”

“Yet I argue not against Heaven's hand or will, nor bate one jot of heart or hope; but still bear up and steer right onward.”