Theodore Dreiser Quotes

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

Love, Power, Understand

In order to have wisdom we must have ignorance.
Theodore Dreiser

Wisdom, Ignorance, Order

Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail.
Theodore Dreiser

Art, Human, Soul

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

Let no one underestimate the need of pity. We live in a stony universe whose hard, brilliant forces rage fiercely.
Theodore Dreiser

Live, Hard, Universe

Nothing is proved, all is permitted.
Theodore Dreiser

Nothing, Permitted, Proved

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

Human, Reason, Stage

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

Great, Mean, Feelings

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Biography

Nationality: American

Born: August 27, 1871

Died: December 28, 1945

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