# Quote — Clarence Darrow, The Story Of My Life

> One cannot live through a long stretch of years without forming some philosophy of life. As one journeys along he gains experiences and even some ideas. Accumulated opinions and philosophy may be more important to others than the bare facts about how he lived, so my ambition is not so much to relate the occurrences as to record the ideas that life has forced me to accept; and, after all, thoughts, impressions and feelings are really life itself. I should like to think that these reflections might make existence a trifle easier for some of those who may chance to read this story.

- Author: [Clarence Darrow](https://www.leafyquotes.com/clarence-darrow.md)
- Book: [The Story Of My Life](https://www.leafyquotes.com/clarence-darrow/the-story-of-my-life.md)
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Clarence_Darrow#The_Story_of_My_Life_(1932)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Topics: [life](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/life.md)
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/clarence-darrow/the-story-of-my-life/one-cannot-live

## More from this book

> I have always felt that doubt was the beginning of wisdom, and the fear of God was the end of wisdom.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/clarence-darrow/the-story-of-my-life/i-have-always.md)

Topics: [wisdom](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/wisdom.md), [doubt](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/doubt.md)

> I was truly sorry for Mr. Bryan. But I consoled myself by thinking of the years through which he had busied himself tormenting intelligent professors with impudent questions about their faith, and seeking to arouse the ignoramuses and bigots to drive them out of their positions.

p. 267 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/clarence-darrow/the-story-of-my-life/i-was-truly.md)

Topics: [religion](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/religion.md), [faith](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/faith.md)

> Every instinct that is found in any man is in all men. The strength of the emotion may not be so overpowering, the barriers against possession not so insurmountable, the urge to accomplish the desire less keen. With some, inhibitions and urges may be neutralized by other tendencies. But with every being the primal emotions are there. All men have an emotion to kill; when they strongly dislike some one they involuntarily wish he was dead. I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/clarence-darrow/the-story-of-my-life/every-instinct-that.md)

Topics: [human nature](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/human-nature.md), [hatred](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/hatred.md)