Sherwood Anderson Quotes

My parents said marrying was an optimistic thing to do in pessimistic times.

I never thought I'd have children; I never thought I'd be in love, I never thought I'd meet the right person. Having come from a broken home - you kind of accept that certain things feel like a fairy tale, and you just don't look for them.

I'm in no rush. One day I'll find a nice guy.

I was in a marriage, and we didn't make it. So my hope is, through my music, I can help heal some relationships that may be headed in that direction.

I'm a romantic; you have to be to marry four times.

When I look at the world I'm pessimistic, but when I look at people I am optimistic.

It's the cynics who never get married.

I think that monogamy is artificial. I do not think it's something that comes naturally to us.

I love marriage. I failed at marriage, but I'd rather go into anything with gusto and fail than go into it half-assed.

Marriage is the death of hope.

The first line in the first 'Gasland' is: 'I'm not a pessimist. I've always had a great deal of faith in people that we won't succumb to frenzy or rage or greed. That we'll figure out a solution without destroying the things that we love.' I have not lost that sense.

I think it is very natural to want to be partnered, but you never know. you read about mature love affairs in the press, and it gives you hope. You think: 'Well, it's not impossible.'

You have to have faith in people.

I am not against marriage -- I am for love. If love becomes your marriage, good; but don't hope that marriage can bring love. That is not possible. Love can become a marriage. You have to work very consciously to transform your love into a marriage. Ordinarily, people destroy their love. They do EVERYTHING to destroy it and then they suffer. And they go on saying, 'What went wrong?' They destroy -- they do everything to destroy it.

The triumph of hope over experience.

I believe in love. I believe in hard times and love winning. I believe marriage is hard. I believe people make mistakes. I believe people can want two things at once. I believe people are selfish and generous at the same time. I believe very few people want to hurt others. I believe that you can be surprised by life. I believe in happy endings.

I really thought that love would save us all.

There will never be no love at all.

Love is, and I hope it never isn't.

If they only married when they fell in love, most people would die unwed.

I’m always going to be a hopeless romantic. Always.

Let's all get married. There is nothing more beautiful than two people who love each other and commit to marriage

there were crimes and quarrels, alongside kindness and cooperation; there were people who loved each other and people who did not; it was a human world.

A gentleman who had been very unhappy in marriage, married immediately after his wife died; it was the triumph of hope over experience.

My mom's response after seeing a sign that read 'Love God, People and Life': 'Well a lot of people don't like people.'