Sherwood Anderson Quotes

He thought about himself and to the young that always brings sadness.

It might be that women who have beennurses should not marry physicians. They have too much respect for physicians, are taughtto have too much respect

I feel that I am writing out of a full life. I am a rich man, rich in men known, in adventures had. I am rich with living.

All of the people of my time were bound with chains. They had forgotten the long fields and the standing corn. They had forgotten the west winds.

I am a lover and have not found my thing to love. That is a big point if you know enough to realize what I mean. It makes my destruction inevitable, you see. There are few who understand that.

Most people are afraid to trust their imaginations and the artist is not.

Dare to be strong and courageous. That is the road. Venture anything. Be brave enough to dare to be loved. Be something more than man or woman. Be Tandy.

Everyone in the world is Christ and they are all crucified.

It has long been my desire to be a little worm in the fair apple of Progress.

It is no use. I find it impossible to work with security staring me in the face.

Friends you have, people you love, die and are born again.

Only the few know the sweetness of the twisted apples.

There is this thing called life. We live it, not as we intend or wish, but as we are driven on by forces outside and inside ourselves.

You can make a killing as a playwright in America, but you can't make a living.

You must try to forget all you have learned,” said the old man. “You must begin to dream. From this time on you must shut your ears to the roaring of the voices.

Here and there a man respected the operator. Instinctively the man felt in him a glowing resentment of something he had not the courage to resent.

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

One does so hate to admit that the average woman is kinder, finer, more quick of sympathy and on the whole so much more first class than the average man.

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

To be civilized, really, is to be aware of the others, their hopes, their gladnesses, their illusions about life.

I have always been one who wanted a great of love, admiration and respect from others without having to go to all the trouble of deserving it.

You must try to forget all you have learned, ' said the old man. 'You must begin to dream. From this time on you must shut your ears to the roaring of the voices.

She is always pretending she loves me, but look at her now. Am I in her thoughts? Is there a tender look in her eyes? Is she dreaming of me as she walks along the streets?

Most of us live our lives like toads, sitting perfectly still, under a plantain leaf. We are waiting for a fly to come our way. When it comes out darts the tongue. We nab it.That is all. We eat it.

Most boys have seasons of wishing they could die gloriously instead of just being grocery clerks and going on with their humdrum lives.

What is to be got at to make the air sweet the ground good under the feet can only be got at by failure trial again and again and again failure.

Interest in the lives of others the high evaluation of these lives what are they but the overflow of the interest a man finds in himself the value he attributes to his own being?

If a man doesn't delight in himself and the force in him and feel that he and it are wonders how is all life to become important to him?

I go about looking at horses and cattle. They eat grass make love work when they have to bear their young. I am sick with envy of them.

General Grant had a simple childlike recipe for meeting life ... "I am terribly afraid but the other fellow is afraid too."

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