Sherwood Anderson Quotes

Work accomplished means little. It is in the past. What we all want is the glorious and living present.

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

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.

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?

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?

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.

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

But these notes make no pretense of being a record of fact. That isn't their object. They are merely notes of impressions, a record of vagrant thoughts, hopes, ideas that have floated through the mind of one present-day American. It is likely that I have not, and will not, put into them one truth, measuring by the ordinary standards of truth. It is my aim to be true to the essence of things. That's what I'm after.