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Theodore Dreiser Quotes
Page 1 of 1Theodore Dreiser
August 27, 1871 - December 28, 1945
Nationality: American
Category: Novelist
Subcategory: American Novelist
|  I believe in the compelling power of love. I do not understand it. I believe it to be the most fragrant blossom of all this thorny existence. | | Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail. | | Our civilization is still in a middle stage, scarcely beast, in that it is no longer wholly guided by instinct; scarcely human, in that it is not yet wholly guided by reason. | | In order to have wisdom we must have ignorance. | | Assure a man that he has a soul and then frighten him with old wives' tales as to what is to become of him afterward, and you have hooked a fish, a mental slave. | | Nothing is proved, all is permitted. | | Words are but the vague shadows of the volumes we mean. Little audible links, they are, chaining together great inaudible feelings and purposes. | | Let no one underestimate the need of pity. We live in a stony universe whose hard, brilliant forces rage fiercely. |
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