“Sometimes it is harder to deprive oneself of a pain than of a pleasure.”— F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night, 1934Share
“The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays young.”— F. Scott FitzgeraldShare
“The idea that to make a man work you've got to hold gold in front of his eyes is a growth, not an axiom.”— F. Scott FitzgeraldShare
“Have I not found a happy earth? I least should breathe a thought of pain.”— Alfred, Lord TennysonShare
“In every part and corner of our life, to lose oneself is to be a gainer; to forget oneself is to be happy.”— Robert Louis StevensonShare
“Self-knowledge is no guarantee of happiness, but it is on the side of happiness and can supply the courage to fight for it.”— Simone de BeauvoirShare
“I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth — and truth rewarded me.”— Simone de BeauvoirShare
“The best laid schemes o' mice and men Gang aft a-gley; And leave us naught but grief and pain For promised joy.”— Robert BurnsShare
