Havelock Ellis

Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive.

Education, whatever else it should or should not be, must be an inoculation against the poisons of life and an adequate equipment in knowledge and skill for meeting the chances of life.

Pain and death are part of life. To reject them is to reject life itself.

However well organized the foundations of life may be, life must always be full of risks.

It has always been difficult for Man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more difficult to conceive it so than to act it so. For that is always how he has more or less acted it.

Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is no mere translation or abstraction from life; it is life itself.

Sex lies at the root of life, and we can never learn to reverence life until we know how to understand sex.

All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.

Dreams are real as long as they last. Can we say more of life?

Thinking in its lower grades, is comparable to paper money, and in its higher forms it is a kind of poetry.

I always seem to have a vague feeling that he is a Satan among musicians, a fallen angel in the darkness who is perpetually seeking to fight his way back to happiness.

The husband - by primitive instinct partly, certainly by ancient tradition - regards himself as the active partner in matters of love and his own pleasure as legitimately the prime motive for activity.