Theodore Dreiser Quotes

"Words are but the vague shadows of the volumes we mean. Little audible links, they are, chaining together great inaudible feelings and purposes."
- Theodore Dreiser
(Related: Feelings, Shadows, Words)

"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."
- Theodore Dreiser
(Related: Civilization, Instinct, Reason)

"Let no one underestimate the need of pity. We live in a stony universe whose hard, brilliant forces rage fiercely."
- Theodore Dreiser
(Related: Pity, Universe)

"In order to have wisdom we must have ignorance."
- Theodore Dreiser
(Related: Wisdom, Ignorance, Order)

"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."
- Theodore Dreiser
(Related: Power, Love, Existence)

"Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail."
- Theodore Dreiser
(Related: Art, Soul, Misery)

"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."
- Theodore Dreiser
(Related: Soul, Fish, Man, Old, Wives)