Clarence Darrow Life Quotations

I am an agnostic; I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men are sure of.

I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure.

The first half of our lives are ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.

The purpose of life is living. Men and women should get the most they can out of their lives.

None meet life honestly and few heroically.

Life is a never-ending school, and the really important lessons all tend to teach humanity our proper relation to the environment where we must live.

You can't get to a pleasant place to be at unless you use pleasant methods to get there. When you are dealing with a human society the means is fully as important as the end.

I had a vivid imagination. Not only could I put myself in the other person's place, but I could not avoid doing so. My sympathies always went out to the weak, the suffering, and the poor. Realizing their sorrows I tried to relieve them in order that I myself might be relieved.

We know life is futile. A man who considers that his life is of very wonderful importance is awfully close to a padded cell.

The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children