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 Fitzgerald
I'm a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won't.F. Scott Fitzgerald
All of us feel, I think, that our experiences can be the worst possible thing you can go through and that we're alone in it, which is isolating and intense and insurmountable. But we can get over it.Michel de Montaigne
A man's delight in looking forward to and hoping for some particular satisfaction is a part of the pleasure flowing out of it, enjoyed in advance. But this is afterward deducted, for the more we look forward to anything the less we enjoy it when it comes.Arthur Schopenhauer
Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself.Cicero
A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune.Horace