Theodore Dreiser

In your rocking-chair, by your window dreaming, shall you long, alone. In your rocking- chair, by your window, shall you dream such happiness as you may never feel. ↗

— Theodore Dreiser

#dreams

A half-equipped little knight she was, venturing to reconnoitre the mysterious city and dreaming wild dreams of some vague, far-off supremacy... ↗

— Theodore Dreiser

#dreams

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

— Theodore Dreiser

#gathered #honey #human #human 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

#become #fish #frighten #him #hooked

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

— Theodore Dreiser

#fiercely #forces #hard #live #need

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

#believe #blossom #compelling #existence #fragrant

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

#civilization #guided #human #instinct #longer

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

#feelings #great #inaudible #links #little

Nothing is proved, all is permitted. ↗

— Theodore Dreiser

#permitted #proved

In order to have wisdom we must have ignorance. ↗

— Theodore Dreiser

#must #order #wisdom