All Theodore Dreiser Quotes
- I will kneel and strike my breast, then touch the dust with my forehead; I will, I will. Only do not forsake me, oh god… Beauty
- We are to have no pictures which the puritan and the narrow, animated by an obsolete dogma, cannot approve of. We are to have no… Animated
- The strong man wants to be allowed to DO; the little man wants to stop him. Allowed
- Morality and ethics are nothing but footballs, wherewith people, strong people play to win points. Ethics
- We who feel that justice is not being done have but one thing to do: that is fight, by argument, by example, by insistence on… Apparently
- Nature, machine-like, works definitely and heartlessly, if in the main beautifully. Hence, if we, as individuals, do not make this dream of a god or… Beautifully
- Your writer, your scientist, your chief official, all have lost the power to revive the early illusion concerning fame and high place. Their beauty and… All
- I have seen youths bright eyed and fair groping after bubbles in rapture, and conceiving them diamonds and the glitter of fine jewels, until their… Achievement
- If I were personally to define religion, I would say that it is a bandage that man has invented to protect a soul made bloody… Atheism
- Shakespeare, I come ! Funny
- A thought will color a world for us. Color
- Life is made for the strong. There is no mercy in it for the weak– none...Such is the tragedy of desire. Desire
- In order to have wisdom we must have ignorance. Ignorance
- The mystery of life--its inexplicability, beauty, cruelty, tenderness, folly . . . has occupied the greater part of my waking thoughts; and in reverence or… Beauty
- Innate sensuousness rarely has any desire for accuracy, no desire for precise information. It basks in sunshine, bathes in color, dwells in a sense of… Accuracy
- It isn't myself that's important in this transaction apparently; the individual doesn't count much in the situation...all of us are more or less pawns. We're… All
- You walk into a room, see a woman, and something happens. It's chemical. What are you going to do about it? Chemical
- Why must women torment me so? Inspirational
- I believe in the compelling power of love. Believe
- Life is a God-damned, stinking, treacherous game and nine hundred and ninety-nine men out of a thousand are bastards. Bastards
- If we are to extract any joy out of our span, we must think and plan and make things better not only for ourselves but… Any
- The true meaning of money yet remains to be popularly explained and comprehended. Comprehended
- 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… All
- Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail. Art
- 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,… Afterward