W. Somerset Maugham Quotes

Life is not always easy to live, but the opportunity to do so is a blessing beyond comprehension. In the process of living, we will face struggles, many of which will cause us to suffer and to experience pain.

What hunger is in relation to food, zest is in relation to life.

HAPPY EVER AFTER is a concept I'll never believe in. I would be content to sample some little taste of happiness today, tonight, right now. Though I know without a doubt that tomorrow will come saturated with pain. Life is like that. At least my life. And honestly, I cant think of anyone whose life is any different. The price tag for joy is misery. [...]

Life is enthusiasm, zest.

As soon as a baby enters the world, the baby is immediately introduced to pain. It is somewhat symbolic that life begins with a cry.

A crust of bread and a corner to sleep in. A minute to smile and an hour to weep in. A pint of joy to a peck of trouble, And never a laugh but the moans come double. And that is life. A crust and a corner that makes love precious, With a smile to warm and tears to refresh us, And joy seems sweeter when cares come after, And a moan is the finest of foils for laughter. And that is life.

Life is the thing--the song of life-- The eager plow, the thirsty knife!

Only to live, to live and live! Life, whatever it may be!

Joy is a very high frequency current of energy with a great deal of energy content. Somebody who is joyful has a lot of energy.

The fact of being alive compensated for what life did to one.

You're filled with so much life. Is there any reason why all of us are not full of life?

Faint is the bliss, that never past thro' pain.

Moments like this are buds on the tree of life. Flowers of darkness they are.

Energy is eternal delight.

I need to feel the excitement of life stirring around me, and I will always need to feel that.

Pain is itself a god: the taskmaster of life. Pain cracks the whip, and all that lives will move. To live is to be a slave to pain.

As for you, you are alive. But it's not the same as living.

The heat of the bread burned into my skin, but I clutched it tighter, clinging to life.

Hope is the sun. It is light. It is passion. It is the fundamental force for life's blossoming.

Life delights in life.

Love is the spirit of life, and makes all things live.

Then welcome each rebuff That turns earth's smoothness rough, Each sting that bids nor sit nor stand, but go! Be our joys three-parts pain! Strive, and hold cheap the strain; Learn, nor account the pang; dare, never grudge the throe!

This dance is the joy of existence.