Average Quote by Ezra Pound

I`ve had few dull moments [in my life] and not too many sad and defeated ones. In saying this I am by no means…

— Buster Keaton

My second year was particularly difficult because I had high expectations.

— J. J. Redick

I felt shame - I see this clearly, now - at the instinctive recognition in myself of an awful enfeebling fatalism, a sense that…

— Joseph O'Neill

During my freshman year of college, it became undeniably clear that I didn't want to be great again. I correlated greatness with misery.

— Katelyn Ohashi

The first half of life is spent in longing for the second - the second half in regretting the first.

— French Proverb

I've had good moments scattered since then, times when I thought I was better, but that was the last day I felt triumphant.

— Ned Vizzini

“Here to second lives. May we all be forgiven for the inapt missteps of our past, and presented with new opportunities to accomplish the…

— Anonymous

One bitter time of mourning, I remember, When day, and night, my sad heart did complain, My life, I said, was one cold, bleak…

— Ella Wheeler Wilcox

By recollecting the pleasures I have had formerly, I renew them, I enjoy them a second time, while I laugh at the remembrance of…

— Giacomo Casanova

“...the bittersweet reminder of life's ephemeral pleasures, of opportunities that pass...These experiences would never be repeated and for that I was sad to see…

— Kevin Revolinski

I did have my moments of despair. It was certainly not - it's not an experience I would like to have again. And then…

— Edmund Hillary

The diabolical thing about melancholy is not that it makes you ill but that it makes you conceited and shortsighted; yes almost arrogant. You…

— Hermann Hesse