Of Human Bondage Quotes

“He did not care if she was heartless, vicious and vulgar, stupid and grasping, he loved her. He would rather have misery with the one than happiness with the other.”

― W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage

topic:love happiness misery

“the important thing was to love rather than to be loved”

― W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage

topic:love importance

“This love was a torment, and he resented bitterly the subjugation in which it held him; he was a prisoner and he longed for freedom.”

― W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage

topic:love

“She had no mercy. He looked at her neck and thought how he would like to jab it with the knife he had for his muffin. He knew enough anatomy to make pretty certain of getting the carotid artery. And at the same time he wanted to cover her pale,...”

― W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage

topic:love hate

“There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.”

― W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage

topic:love relationship

“Life was not so horrible if it was meaningless, and he faced it with a strange sense of power.”

― W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage

topic:life pain meaning

“Life is there to be lived rather than to be written about.”

― W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage

topic:life writing living

“Men seek but one thing in life—their pleasure.”

― W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage

topic:life men pleasure

“It might be that to surrender to happiness was to accept defeat, but it was a defeat better than many victories.”

― W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage

topic:happiness

“It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it”

― W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage

topic:happiness youth

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