Death in the Woods and Other Stories Quotes

“People keep on getting married. Evidently hope is eternal in the human breast.”
― Sherwood Anderson, Death in the Woods and Other Stories

“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, Death in the Woods and Other Stories

“All good New Orleanians go to look at the Mississippi at least once a day. At night it is like creeping into a dark bedroom to look at a sleeping child--something of that sort--gives you the same warm nice feeling, I mean.”
― Sherwood Anderson, Death in the Woods and Other Stories

“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, Death in the Woods and Other Stories

“How dirty she was, how thin, what a wild look she had! I have never seen a wilder-looking creature. Her eyes were bright. They were like the eyes of a wild animal.”
― Sherwood Anderson, Death in the Woods and Other Stories

“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, Death in the Woods and Other Stories

“Wait and wait. Most people's lives are spent waiting.”
― Sherwood Anderson, Death in the Woods and Other Stories

“It might be that women who have been
nurses should not marry physicians. They have too much respect for physicians, are taught
to have too much respect”
― Sherwood Anderson, Death in the Woods and Other Stories

“There are men everywhere who talk and talk, saying nothing. I am afraid I am becoming one of that kind.”
― Sherwood Anderson, Death in the Woods and Other Stories

“You see it is likely that, when my brother told the story, that night when we got home and my mother and sister sat listening, I did not think he got the point. He was too young and so was I. A thing so complete has its own beauty.”
― Sherwood Anderson, Death in the Woods and Other Stories

“Most of us live our lives like toads, sitting perfectly still, under a plantain leaf. We are waiting for a fly to come our way. When it comes out darts the tongue. We nab it.
That is all. We eat it.”
― Sherwood Anderson, Death in the Woods and Other Stories

“It hadn't shocked the old woman, not much. She had got past being shocked early in life.”
― Sherwood Anderson, Death in the Woods

“To be civilized, really, is to be aware of the others, their hopes, their gladnesses, their illusions about life”
― Sherwood Anderson, Death in the Woods and Other Stories

“You can't always be too fussy about what you say to a young boy. Really, sometimes, you should take him into your confidence, into your life, make him a part of your life.”
― Sherwood Anderson, Death in the Woods and Other Stories