Edward Dahlberg Quotes

Ambition is a Dead Sea fruit, and the greatest peril to the soul is that one is likely to get precisely what he is seeking.
Edward Dahlberg

Greatest, Soul, Ambition

A strong foe is better than a weak friend.
Edward Dahlberg

Strong, Friend, Weak

When one realizes that his life is worthless he either commits suicide or travels.
Edward Dahlberg

Life, Either, Worthless

Always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter. Walt Disney Every decision you make is a mistake.
Edward Dahlberg

Life, Decision, Enough

Genius, like truth, has a shabby and neglected mien.
Edward Dahlberg

Truth, Genius, Neglected

It takes a long time to understand nothing.
Edward Dahlberg

Time, Long, Nothing

Every decision you make is a mistake.
Edward Dahlberg

Decision, Mistake

Herman Melville was as separated from a civilized literature as the lost Atlantis was said to have been from the great peoples of the earth.
Edward Dahlberg

Great, Lost, Said

Man hoards himself when he has nothing to give away.
Edward Dahlberg

Nothing, Give, Away

Men are mad most of their lives; few live sane, fewer die so. The acts of people are baffling unless we realize that their wits are disordered. Man is driven to justice by his lunacy.
Edward Dahlberg

Men, Live, Justice

Nothing in our times has become so unattractive as virtue.
Edward Dahlberg

Nothing, Become, Times

So much of our lives is given over to the consideration of our imperfections that there is no time to improve our imaginary virtues. The truth is we only perfect our vices, and man is a worse creature when he dies than he was when he was born.
Edward Dahlberg

Time, Truth, Perfect

The Americans have always been food, sex, and spirit revivalists.
Edward Dahlberg

Food, Sex, Spirit

The ancients understood the regulation of power better than the regulation of liberty.
Edward Dahlberg

Power, Liberty, Understood

The bad poet is a toady mimicking nature.
Edward Dahlberg

Nature, Bad, Poet

The machine has had a pernicious effect upon virtue, pity, and love, and young men used to machines which induce inertia, and fear, are near impotent.
Edward Dahlberg

Love, Men, Fear

To write is a humiliation.
Edward Dahlberg

We can only write well about our sins because it is too difficult to recall a virtuous act or even whether it was the result of good or evil motives.
Edward Dahlberg

Good, Evil, Difficult

We cannot live, suffer or die for somebody else, for suffering is too precious to be shared.
Edward Dahlberg

Live, Die, Cannot

Writing is conscience, scruple, and the farming of our ancestors.
Edward Dahlberg

Writing, Conscience, Farming

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Biography

Nationality: American

Born: July 22, 1900

Died: February 27, 1977

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