Let no one underestimate the need of pity. We live in a stony universe whose hard, brilliant forces rage fiercely.
About Theodore Dreiser
Theodore Herman Albert Dreiserwas an American novelist and journalist of the naturalist school. His novels often featured main characters who succeeded at their objectives despite a lack of a firm moral code, and literary situations that more closely resemble studies of nature than tales of choice and agency.
More quotes from Theodore Dreiser
Nothing is proved, all is permitted.
American novelist and journalist (1871-1945)
Let no one underestimate the need of pity. We live in a stony universe whose hard, brilliant forces rage fiercely.
American novelist and journalist (1871-1945)
Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail.
American novelist and journalist (1871-1945)
Words are but the vague shadows of the volumes we mean. Little audible links, they are, chaining together great inaudible feelings and purposes.
American novelist and journalist (1871-1945)
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.
American novelist and journalist (1871-1945)
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.
American novelist and journalist (1871-1945)
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.
American novelist and journalist (1871-1945)
In order to have wisdom we must have ignorance.
American novelist and journalist (1871-1945)