It is so much easier to live placidly and complacently. Of course, to live placidly and complacently is not to live at all.

Men do not knowingly drink for the effect alcohol produces on the body. What they drink for is the brain-effect; and if it must come through the body, so much the worse for the body.

He was always striving to attain it. The life that was so swiftly expanding within him, urged him continually toward the wall of light. The life that was within him knew that it was the one way out, the way he was predestined to tread.

It's better to stand by someone's side than by yourself

The aim of life was meat. Life itself was meat. Life lived on life. There were the eaters and the eaten.

Life? Bah! It has no value. Of cheap things it is the cheapest. Everywhere it goes begging. Nature spills it out with a lavish hand. Where there is room for one life, she sows a thousand lives, and it's life eats life till the strongest and most piggish life is left.

This expression of abandon and surrender, of absolute trust, he reserved for the master alone.