Ezra Pound Quotes

Whether a man lives or dies in vain can be measured only by the way he faces his own problems, by the success or failure of the inner conflict within his own soul. And of this no one may know save God.

Fear reaches only to the point where the unavoidable begins; from there on, it loses its meaning. And all we have left is the hope that we are making the right decision.

If you have something to get off of your chest, there is a proper way to do it. Everybody has a bad day, and, for some people, you're under a microscope and you have to deal with the consequences of having a bad day in front of people. But everyone has them.

I am always thinking 'What am I doing here? Is this the way I am supposed to feel?'

You're in a bad way! Apparently, you have developed a soul.

Passion persuades me one way, reason another. I see the better and approve it, but I follow the worse.

Are we to assist it in gaining power in order to save our lives? Is that the paradox of our earthly situation?

If there were no way into God, I would not have lain in the grave of this body so long.

If you have the expectation that I have to be a certain way, then I feel the obligation to be that way. The truth is I am not what you want me to be.

If you were to turn into a snake tomorrow and begin devouring humans, and from the same mouth you started devouring humans, you cried out to me 'I love you,' would I still be able to say 'I love you' the same way I do today?

I'm afraid there are no replays or second chances in amateur or professional golf, and that's the way it should be.

This book is to be neither an accusation nor a confession, and least of all an adventure, for death is not an adventure to those who stand face to face with it. It will try simply to tell of a generation of men who, even though they may have escaped shells, were destroyed by the war.

The hour of departure has arrived and we go our ways; I to die, and you to live. Which is better? Only God knows.

The only way I can protect him now is to make sure he never understands how easy killing can become.

Guilt is a timorous thing ere perpetration; despair alone makes guilty men be bold.

Until we see love as the meaning of life, life seems to have no meaning at all. The sense of meaninglessness produces chaos, and the chaos produces fear. There is only one way out of this, and that is to see every moment and every situation as an invitation to love.

What in Gods name is it worth to be human, if we have to be saved from ourselves by a machine?

The way I was brought up ‘he needed killing’ is an airtight alibi.

I believe more and more that God must not be judged on this earth. It is one of His sketches that has turned out badly.

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The world is scary, and things are overwhelming, and there's a lot at stake.

There is no right life in the wrong one.

Death anxiety is the mother of all religions, which, in one way or another, attempt to temper the anguish of our finitude.

And so, irritants, it is with this that I leave you. You are spared so that you can think of what it really is to live in a world that engenders a pain for which there is no comfort. Here is your product! You have the rest of your lives to think of this. And I suggest you think quickly, for a long life is never a guarantee.

Nothing will get you into trouble so deep or as sad as faith.