Theodore Dreiser's Quotes
Born: 1970-01-01
Profession: Novelist
Nation: American
Biography of Theodore Dreiser
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.
Tags: Love, Power, UnderstandArt is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail.
Tags: Art, Human, SoulAssure 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.
Tags: Him, Old, SoulLet no one underestimate the need of pity. We live in a stony universe whose hard, brilliant forces rage fiercely.
Tags: Hard, Universe, WhoseNothing is proved, all is permitted.
Tags: ProvedWords are but the vague shadows of the volumes we mean. Little audible links, they are, chaining together great inaudible feelings and purposes.
Tags: Feelings, Great, MeanOur 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.
Tags: Human, Reason, Stage