"Of Human Bondage" Quotes
A young man struggles to find meaning and fulfillment in his life while dealing with unrequited love and personal challenges.
classics | 579 pages | Published in 2019
Quotes
The simplest pattern is the clearest.
He did not know how wide a country, arid and precipitous, must be crossed before the traveler through life comes to an acceptance of reality.
The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.
We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love.
It is not the facts which are of importance, but the light thrown on them, the meaning, the sense.
Life was not so horrible if it was meaningless, and he faced it with a strange sense of power.
It is one of the defects of my character that I cannot altogether dislike anyone who makes me laugh.
The love of a bayonet is a peculiarly enduring passion.
It is cruel to discover one’s mediocrity only when it is too late.
Life is difficult, and we are all breakable.
