Quotes on Human Bondage

He had heard people speak contemptuously of money: he wondered if they had ever tried to do without it.

Art is merely the refuge which the ingenious have invented, when they were supplied with food and women, to escape the tediousness of life.

The moment I have realized God sitting in the temple of every human body, the moment I stand in reverence before every human being and see God in him - that moment I am free from bondage, everything that binds vanishes, and I am free.

There are two good things in life - freedom of thought and freedom of action.

Life wouldn’t be worth living if I worried over the future as well as the present. When things are at their worst I find something always happens.

I daresay one profits more by the mistakes one makes off one's own bat than by doing the right thing on somebody's else advice.

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

The great tragedy of life is not that men perish, but that they cease to love.

Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.

You can do anything in this world if you are prepared to take the consequences.

It's no use crying over spilt milk, because all of the forces of the universe were bent on spilling it.

It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it; but the young know they are wretched for they are full of the truthless ideals which have been instilled in them, and each time they come into contact with the real, they are bruised and wounded.

It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.

One can be very much in love with a woman without wishing to spend the rest of one's life with her.

When things are at their worst, I find something always happens.

Follow your inclinations with due regard to the policeman round the corner.

The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.

Self-control might be as passionate and as active as the surrender to passion.

We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.

I do not confer praise or blame: I accept. I am the measure of all things. I am the center of the world.

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