All Theodore Dreiser Quotes
- 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
- Words are but the vague shadows of the volumes we mean. Little audible links, they are, chaining together great inaudible feelings and purposes. Audible
- Let no one underestimate the need of pity. We live in a stony universe whose hard, brilliant forces rage fiercely. Brilliant
- Nothing is proved, all is permitted. All
- 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… Beast
- When a girl leaves her home at eighteen, she does one of two things. Either she falls into saving hands and becomes better, or she… Assumes
- People in general attach too much importance to words. They are under the illusion that talking effects great results. As a matter of fact, words… All
- It is a sad thing to want for happiness, but it is a terrible thing to see another groping about blindly for it, when it… Almost Within
- Remember, love is all a woman has to give, but it is the only thing which God permits us to carry beyond the grave. All
- And then he sank back and tried, as usual, not to think. He must succeed. That's what the world was made for. That's what he… Sank
- The most futile thing in this world is any attempt, perhaps, at exact definition of character. All individuals are a bundle of contradictions - none… All
- How true it is that words are but the vague shadows of the volumes we mean. Inspirational
- The thing that impressed me then as now about New York… was the sharp, and at the same time immense, contrast it showed between the… Contrast
- A real flame of love is a subtle thing. It burns as a will-o'-the-wisp, dancing onward to fairy lands of delight. It roars as a… Burns
- Love is the only thing you can really give in all this world. When you give love, you give everything. All
- When a man, however passively, becomes an obstacle to the fulfillment of a woman's desires, he becomes an odious thing in her eyes, - or… Becomes