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You may look back on your life and accept it as good or evil. But it is far, far harder to admit that you have been completely unimportant; that in the great sum of things, all a man's endless grapplings are no more significant than the scuttlings of a cockroach.

— Sebastian Horsley

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

I have lived eighty years of life and know nothing for it, but to be resigned and tell myself that flies are born to be eaten by spiders and man to be devoured by sorrow.

— Voltaire

I'm not a pitiable creature. It's just that I suffer very eloquently.

— Joni Mitchell

Every minute you are thinking of evil, you might have been thinking of good instead. Refuse to pander to a morbid interest in your own misdeeds. Pick yourself up, be sorry, shake yourself, and go on again.

— Evelyn Underhill

There's a certain grace in accepting what your life is and embracing all the good things that have been - but there's still an expectation of good things to come. Not necessarily what you expected.

— Emmylou Harris

There is just no getting around that turning bad things into good things is up to you.

— Deepak Chopra

I can look back on my life, where there have been moments where things might have gone the other way. Everything is like stepping stones, and I've seen people I admire falter. We're all vulnerable.

— Hugh Jackman

I'm an accumulation of every single thing I've done, good and bad.

— David Millar

I've done some pretty bad things in my life.

— Tiger Woods

I have an awfully good life.

— Ann Richards

✗Opposing Perspectives

My success and my misfortunes, the bright and the dark days I have gone through, everything has proved to me that in this world, either physical or moral, good comes out of evil just as well as evil comes out of good.

— Giacomo Casanova