The Favorite Short Stories of W. Somerset Maugham Quotes

“The tragedy of love is not death or separation. How long do you think it would have been before one or other of them ceased to care? Oh, it is dreadfully bitter to look at a woman whom you have loved with all your heart and soul, so that you felt you could not bear to let her out of your sight, and realize that you would not mind if you never saw her again. The tragedy of love is indifference.”
― W. Somerset Maugham, The Favorite Short Stories of W. Somerset Maugham

“We are foolish and sentimental and melodramatic at twenty-five, but if we weren’t perhaps we should be less wise at fifty.”
― W. Somerset Maugham, The Favorite Short Stories of W. Somerset Maugham