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40 Inspiring Quotes By Sherwood Anderson, The Author Of Dark Laughter

Famous As: Writer
Born On: September 13, 1876
Died On: March 8, 1941
Born In: Ohio, United States
Died At Age: 64
Sherwood Anderson was a successful business owner in Ohio, before he had a nervous breakdown which led him to abandon his family and business to become a novelist and short story writer. Known for his self-divulging and subjective works, Anderson published ‘Winesburg, Ohio’; which was a series of interrelated short stories. Later, he went on to release ‘Puzzled America’, ‘Death in the Woods’ and ‘Kit Brandon: A Portrait’. He was one of the first essayists to establish theories from Freudian analysis and psychology in his work. Instead of focusing on storylines and plot, he emphasized on using non-complex, accurate and unsentimental style to expose inner feelings of anger, void and emptiness in the lives of the characters. His books did reasonably well but ‘Dark Laughter’ was his only bestseller. Majority of his work was released posthumously. In honor of Anderson, his final residence was designated as National Historic Landmark. He expressed his thoughts and beliefs on several issues and subjects through his writing and his characters. Read through these quotes and sayings by Sherwood Anderson on dreams, loneliness, future, ambition, regret, uncertainties, marriage, travel and life.
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Dare to be strong and courageous. That is the road. Venture anything.

Dare to be strong and courageous. That is the road. Venture anything.

Sherwood Anderson
I am a lover and have not found my thing to love.

I am a lover and have not found my thing to love.

Sherwood Anderson
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.

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.

Sherwood Anderson
Only the few know the sweetness of the twisted apples.

Only the few know the sweetness of the twisted apples.

Sherwood Anderson
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.

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.

Sherwood Anderson
There is within every human being a deep well of thinking over which a heavy iron lid is kept clamped.

There is within every human being a deep well of thinking over which a heavy iron lid is kept clamped.

Sherwood Anderson
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.

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.

Sherwood Anderson
In youth there are always two forces fighting in people. The warm unthinking little animal struggles against the thing that reflects and remembers

In youth there are always two forces fighting in people. The warm unthinking little animal struggles against the thing that reflects and remembers

Sherwood Anderson
I wanted to run away from everything but I wanted to run towards something too. Don't you see, dear, how it was?

I wanted to run away from everything but I wanted to run towards something too. Don't you see, dear, how it was?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Sherwood Anderson
Many people must live and die alone, even in Winesburg.

Many people must live and die alone, even in Winesburg.

Sherwood Anderson
If people did not want their stories told, it would be better for them to keep away from me.

If people did not want their stories told, it would be better for them to keep away from me.

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

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

Sherwood Anderson
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?

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?

Sherwood Anderson
I thought of a lot of things to do, but they wouldn't work. They all hurt some one else.

I thought of a lot of things to do, but they wouldn't work. They all hurt some one else.

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

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

Sherwood Anderson
I may stay here in this town another day or I may go on to another town. No one knows where I am. I am taking this bath in life, as you see, and when I have had enough of it I shall go home feeling refreshed.

I may stay here in this town another day or I may go on to another town. No one knows where I am. I am taking this bath in life, as you see, and when I have had enough of it I shall go home feeling refreshed.

Sherwood Anderson
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.

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.

Sherwood Anderson
It's no use. I find it impossible to work with security staring me in the face.

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

Sherwood Anderson
It did not seem to them that anything that could happen in the future could blot out the wonder and beauty of the thing that had happened.

It did not seem to them that anything that could happen in the future could blot out the wonder and beauty of the thing that had happened.

Sherwood Anderson
It is this - that everyone in the world is Christ and they are all crucified. That's what I want to say. Don't you forget that. Whatever happens, don't you dare let yourself forget.

It is this - that everyone in the world is Christ and they are all crucified. That's what I want to say. Don't you forget that. Whatever happens, don't you dare let yourself forget.

Sherwood Anderson
More absurdity in myself, endless absurdities. My own childishness sometimes amused me. Would it amuse others? Were others like myself, hopelessly childish?

More absurdity in myself, endless absurdities. My own childishness sometimes amused me. Would it amuse others? Were others like myself, hopelessly childish?

Sherwood Anderson
She was very quiet but beneath a placid exterior a continual ferment went on.

She was very quiet but beneath a placid exterior a continual ferment went on.

Sherwood Anderson
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.

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.

Sherwood Anderson