Edward Dahlberg Quotes About Literature

Quotes about: Literature

• We cannot live, suffer or die for somebody else, for suffering is too precious to be shared.

  Edward Dahlberg

  Suffering, Literature, Dies

• The machine has had a pernicious effect upon virtue, pity, and love, and young men used to machines which induce inertia, and fear, are near impotent.

  Edward Dahlberg

  Love, Men, Machines

  Edward Dahlberg (1967). “Alms for Oblivion”, p.44, U of Minnesota Press

• Men are mad most of their lives; few live sane, fewer die so. The acts of people are baffling unless we realize that their wits are disordered. Man is driven to justice by his lunacy.

  Edward Dahlberg

  Men, People, Mad

  Edward Dahlberg (1968). “The Carnal Myth: A Search Into Classical Sensuality”, New York : Weybright and Talley

• Always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter. Walt Disney Every decision you make is a mistake.

  Edward Dahlberg

  Uplifting, Mistake, Moving Forward

• The ancients understood the regulation of power better than the regulation of liberty.

  Edward Dahlberg

  Liberty, Literature, Regulation

• So much of our lives is given over to the consideration of our imperfections that there is no time to improve our imaginary virtues. The truth is we only perfect our vices, and man is a worse creature when he dies than he was when he was born.

  Edward Dahlberg

  Men, Perfect, Literature

  Edward Dahlberg (1967). “Alms for Oblivion”, p.138, U of Minnesota Press

• Herman Melville was as separated from a civilized literature as the lost Atlantis was said to have been from the great peoples of the earth.

  Edward Dahlberg

  Atlantis, Literature, Earth

  Edward Dahlberg (1967). “Alms for Oblivion”, U of Minnesota Press

• The Americans have always been food, sex, and spirit revivalists.

  Edward Dahlberg

  Sex, Literature, Spirit

  Edward Dahlberg (1967). “Alms for Oblivion”, p.98, U of Minnesota Press

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