185 Quotes by Sherwood Anderson

It was a cold day but the sun was out and the trees were like great bonfires against gray distant fields and hills.

...she thought that something unexpressed in herself came forth and became a part of an unexpressed something in them.

I wanted to run away from everything but I wanted to run towards something too.

The disease we all have and that we have to fight against all our lives is ... the disease of self ...

Above all avoid taking the advice of men who have no brains and do not know what they are talking about.

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

Father was made for romance. For him there was no such thing as a fact.

Would it not be better to have it understood that realism, in so far as the word means reality to life, is always bad art -- although it may possibly be very good journalism?

From being quite sure of himself and his future he becomes not at all sure. If he be an imaginative boy a door is torn open and for the first time he looks out upon the world, seeing, as though they marched in procession before him, the countless figures of men who before his time have come out of nothingness into the world, lived their lives and again disappeared into nothingness. The sadness of sophistication has come to the boy.