Sherwood Anderson Quotes

The quality of life is more important than life itself.

Human life-everybody lives it, but only to a few is it known.

Life is richly worth living, with its continual revelations of mighty woe, yet infinite hope; and I take it to my breast.

Life is bigger than processes and overflows and dwarfs them.

It was not a life, if lived without love.

The world was more than a place. Life was more than an event. It was all one thing, and that thing was: story.

Life is a creation, not a discovery.

No man ever threw away life while it was worth keeping.

Happiness and the absurd are two sons of the same earth. They are inseparable.

Life may as properly be called an art as any other.

Life is our greatest possession and love its greatest affirmation.

It is only life and love that give love and life.

Eroticism, it may be said, is assenting to life up to the point of death

What is the meaning of life? It is too great a phenomenon to fit into any meaning.

What is life but a series of inspired follies.

If you know what life is worth, you will look for yours on earth.

You ask me what life is. That's like asking what a carrot is. A carrot is a carrot, and there's nothing more to know.

Is death that which gives meaning to life? And I said, no, life is that which gives meaning to life.

But you will admit that it's a good thing to be alive.

Despite the amount of suffering, pain, misery, sorrow and travail which can exist in life, the reason for existence is the same reason as one has to play a game-interest, contest, activity and possession. The truth of this assertion is established by an observation of the elements of games and then applying these elements to life itself.

The meaning of life is to get meaning for life.

Just being born makes you worthy enough to be here

Some fleeting good, that mocks me with the view.

Life is more important than art; that's what makes art important.