W. Somerset Maugham, The Razor's Edge Quotes

A mother only does her children harm if she makes them the only concern of her life.

Well, you know when people are no good at anything else they become writers.

The dead look so terribly dead when they're dead.

When he sacrifices himself man for a moment is greater than God, for how can God, infinite and omnipotent, sacrifice himself?

I thought with melancholy how an author spends months writing a book, and maybe puts his heart’s blood into it, and then it lies about unread till the reader has nothing else in the world to do.

I only wanted to suggest to you that self-sacrifice is a passion so overwhelming that beside it even lust and hunger are trifling.