Edward DahlbergWe can only write well about our sins because it is too difficult to recall a virtuous act or even whether it was the result of good or evil motives.372Philosophy
Edward DahlbergOne cat in a house is a sign of loneliness. ✨ Edward Dahlberg (1967). Alms for Oblivion, p.141, U of Minnesota Press374Reflection
Edward DahlbergWhat has a writer to be bombastic about? Whatever good a man may write is the consequence of accident, luck, or surprise, and nobody is more surprised than an honest writer when h… ▶352Truth
Edward DahlbergMan is at the nadir of his stregth when the Earth, the seas, the mountains are not in him, for without them his soul is unsourced, and he has no images by which to abide. ✨ … ▶331Sadness
Edward DahlbergUtility is our national shibboleth: the savior of the American businessman is fact and his uterine half-brother, statistics. ✨ Edward Dahlberg (1968). The Carnal Myth: A Sea… ▶343HopeTruth
Edward DahlbergHardly a book of human worth, be it heaven's own secret, is honestly placed before the reader; it is either shunned, given a Periclean funeral oration in a hundred and fifty words… ▶365HumanityReadingTruth
Edward DahlbergSo 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 ma… ▶332DeathReflectionTime
Edward DahlbergThe ruin of the human heart is self-interest, which the American merchant calls self-service. We have become a self-service populace, and all our specious comforts -the automatic … ▶355HumanityLove
Edward DahlbergIt takes a long time to understand nothing. ✨ Edward Dahlberg (1965). Reasons of the heart322LoveTime
Edward DahlbergThe ancients understood the regulation of power better than the regulation of liberty.356Politics
Edward DahlbergEvery decision you make is a mistake.312Humanity
Edward DahlbergRecognize the cunning man not by the corpses he pays homage to but by the living writers he conspires against with the most shameful weapon, Silence, or the briefest review.368Life
Edward DahlbergOne of the weaknesses in the cooperative is that it has never been sufficiently leavened by the imagination. This is a quick-silver faculty, and likely to be a cause of worry to a… ▶291Love
Edward DahlbergIt is very perplexing how an intrepid frontier people, who fought a wilderness, floods, tornadoes, and the Rockies, cower before criticism, which is regarded as a malignant tumor … ▶252Humanity
Edward DahlbergWe are uneasy with an affectionate man, for we are positive he wants something of us, particularly our love. ✨ Edward Dahlberg (1965). Reasons of the heart3310Love
Edward DahlbergThere is a strange and mighty race of people called the Americans who are rapidly becoming the coldest in the world because of this cruel, man-eating idol, lucre. ✨ Edward D… ▶308Humanity
Edward DahlbergWe cannot live, suffer or die for somebody else, for suffering is too precious to be shared.253Death
Edward DahlbergAmbition is a Dead Sea fruit, and the greatest peril to the soul is that one is likely to get precisely what he is seeking. ✨ Edward Dahlberg (1967). Alms for Oblivion, U of… ▶231Death
Edward DahlbergMen 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 lun… ▶309DeathHopeHumanity
Edward DahlbergIntellectual sodomy, which comes from the refusal to be simple about plain matters, is as gross and abundant today as sexual perversion and they are nowise different from one anot… ▶2910Philosophy
Edward DahlbergWe are a most solitary people, and we live, repelled by one another, in the gray, outcast cities of Cain. ✨ Edward Dahlberg (1967). Alms for Oblivion, U of Minnesota Press2910Humanity
Edward DahlbergEvil, which is our companion all our days, is not to be treated as a foe. It is wrong to cocker vice, but we grow narrow and pithless if we are furtive about it, for this is at be… ▶257Sadness
Edward DahlbergEverything ultimately fails, for we die, and that is either the penultimate failure or our most enigmatical achievement. ✨ Edward Dahlberg (1967). Alms for Oblivion, p.101, … ▶191Death
Edward DahlbergA strong foe is better than a weak friend. ✨ Edward Dahlberg, Paul Vincent Carroll (1967). The Edward Dahlberg Reader, W W Norton & Company Incorporated247Reading
Edward DahlbergWriting is conscience, scruple, and the farming of our ancestors. ✨ Edward Dahlberg (1964). Alms for oblivion: essays193Love
Edward DahlbergMan hoards himself when he has nothing to give away. ✨ Edward Dahlberg (1965). Reasons of the heart237Love
Edward DahlbergI would rather take hellebore than spend a conversation with a good, little man. ✨ Edward Dahlberg (1964). Alms for oblivion, essays: With a foreword by Sir Herbert Read2610Reading
Edward DahlbergAlways 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.237Life
Edward DahlbergWe are always talking about being together, and yet whatever we invent destroys the family, and makes us wild, touchless beasts feeding on technicolor prairies and rivers. ✨… ▶238Humor
Edward DahlbergGenius, like truth, has a shabby and neglected mien. ✨ Edward Dahlberg (1964). Alms for oblivion: essays205Truth
