Sherwood Anderson Quotes

I may stay here in this town another day or I may go on to another town. No one knows where I am. I ...

The machines men are so intent on making have carried them very far from the old sweet things.

The girl and Doctor Reefy began their courtship on a summer afternoon. He was forty-five then and al...

The death of her father and mother and the rich acres of and that had come down to her had set a tra...

Most boys have seasons of wishing they could die gloriously instead of just being grocery clerks and...

There was nothing particularly striking about them except that they were artists of the kind that ta...

Dare to be strong and courageous. That is the road. Venture anything. Be brave enough to dare to be ...

I don't know what I shall do. I just want to go away and look at people and think.

Love is like a wind stirring the grass beneath trees on a black night,' he had said. 'You must not t...

He wanted most of all the people of his own mind, people with whom he could really talk, people he c...

Here and there a man respected the operator. Instinctively the man felt in him a glowing resentment ...

The beginning of the most materialistic age in the history of the world, when wars would be fought w...

You must try to forget all you have learned,' said the old man. 'You must begin to dream. From this ...

The fruition of the year had come and the night should have been fine with a moon in the sky and the...

In that high place in the darkness the two oddly sensitive human atoms held each other tightly and w...

There is a time in the life of every boy when he for the first time takes the backward view of life....

If a man doesn't delight in himself and the force in him and feel that he and it are wonders how is...

I go about looking at horses and cattle. They eat grass make love work when they have to bear the...

It may be life is only worthwhile at moments. Perhaps that is all we ought to expect.

Interest in the lives of others the high evaluation of these lives what are they but the overflow ...

What is to be got at to make the air sweet the ground good under the feet can only be got at by fa...

To be civilized, really, is to be aware of the others, their hopes, their gladnesses, their illusion...

Work accomplished means little. It is in the past. What we all want is the glorious and living prese...

General Grant had a simple childlike recipe for meeting life ... "I am terribly afraid but the oth...

If our family was poor, of what did our poverty consist? If our clothes were torn the torn places on...

Dreams then were to be expressed in building railroads and factories, in boring gas wells, stringing...

I have always been one who wanted a great of love, admiration and respect from others without having...

But these notes make no pretense of being a record of fact. That isn't their object. They are merely...

I wanted, as all men do, to belong. To what? To an America alive, an America that was no longer a de...

To the young man a kind of worship of some power outside himself is essential. one has strength and ...

I looked at mother with adoration in my own eyes, and when she had taken the kerosene lamp and had g...

One does so hate to admit that the average woman is kinder, finer, more quick of sympathy and on the...

Questions invaded my mind and I was young and skeptical, wanting to believe in the power of the mind...

We poor tellers of tales have our moments too, it seems. Like great generals sitting upon horses upo...

You see it is likely that, when my brother told the story, that night when we got home and my mother...

Wait and wait. Most people's lives are spent waiting.

Most of us live our lives like toads, sitting perfectly still, under a plantain leaf. We are waiting...

She is always pretending she loves me, but look at her now. Am I in her thoughts? Is there a tender ...

People keep on getting married. Evidently hope is eternal in the human breast.

All men lead their lives behind a wall of misunderstanding they have themselves built and most men d...