non-achievement

Updated: May 23, 2025

And the path leading to it is a straight, wide thoroughfare, clearly visible for a long distance ahead. The theory of the mortal journey is simple and seldom challenged. It is a twofold theory first that the delight of achievement will compensate for the rigours and self-denials of the route, and second that the misery of non-achievement would outweigh the immediate pleasures of dallying.

Arnold Bennett - The Plain Man and His Wife