I see it all perfectly; there are two possible situations —... - Søren Kierkegaard, Either/Or: A Fragment of Life

"What is existence for but to be laughed at if men in their twenties have already attained the utmost?"

"If I were to wish for anything, I should not wish for wealth and power, but for the passionate sense of the potential, for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees the possible. Pleasure disappoints, possibility never. And what wine is so sparkling, what so fragrant, what so intoxicating, as possibility!"