87 Quotes by Theodore Dreiser

The true meaning of money yet remains to be popularly explained and comprehended.

Why must women torment me so?

Nature, machine-like, works definitely and heartlessly, if in the main beautifully. Hence, if we, as individuals, do not make this dream of a god or what he stands for us real in our thoughts and deeds, then he is not real or true.

You walk into a room, see a woman, and something happens. It's chemical. What are you going to do about it?

I believe in the compelling power of love.

It isn't myself that's important in this transaction apparently; the individual doesn't count much in the situation...all of us are more or less pawns. We're moved about like chessmen by circumstances over which we have no control.

Love is the only thing you can really give in all this world. When you give love, you give everything.

Life is made for the strong. There is no mercy in it for the weak– none...Such is the tragedy of desire.

People in general attach too much importance to words. They are under the illusion that talking effects great results. As a matter of fact, words are, as a rule, the shallowest portion of all the argument. They but dimly represent the great surging feelings and desires which lie behind. When the distraction of the tongue is removed, the heart listens.