Nature reserves the right to inflict upon her children the most terrifying jests. — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
“The public for which masterpieces are intended is not on this earth.” — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
The public for which masterpieces are intended is not of this earth. — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
“The very angels themselves cannot persuade the wretched and blundering children on earth as can one human being broken on the wheels… — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
Oh, earth, you're too wonderful for anybody to realize you. Do any human beings ever realize life while they live it --… — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
“He had lost that privilege of simple nature, the dissociation of love and pleasure. Pleasure was no longer as simple as eating;… — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
The dead don't stay interested in us living people for very long. Gradually, gradually, they let go hold of the earth .… — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
“We all know that something is eternal. And it ain’t houses and it ain’t names, and it ain’t earth, and it ain’t… — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
But soon we shall die and all memory of those five will have left the earth, and we ourselves shall be loved… — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
“Now there are some things we all know, but we don't take'm out and look at'm very often. We all know that… — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
We all know that something is eternal. And it ain’t houses and it ain’t names, and it ain’t earth, and it ain’t… — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
“He respected the slight nervous shadow that crossed her face when he came too near her. But there arose out of this denial itself… — Thornton Wilder Copy Share
When you're safe at home you wish you were having an adventure; when you're having an adventure you wish you were safe at home. — Thornton Wilder Copy Share
“Simon Stimson: "...That's what it was to be alive. To move about in a cloud of ignorance; to go up and down trampling on… — Thornton Wilder Copy Share
“Love as education is one of the great powers of the world, but it hangs in a delicate suspension; it achieves its harmony as… — Thornton Wilder Copy Share
Many great writers have been extraordinarily awkward in daily exchange, but the greatest give the impression that their style was nursed by the closest… — Thornton Wilder Copy Share
A man looks pretty small at a wedding, George. All those good women standing shoulder to shoulder, making sure that the knot's tied in… — Thornton Wilder Copy Share
The knowledge that she would never be loved in return acted upon her ideas as a tide acts upon cliffs. — Thornton Wilder Copy Share
“But while they continued staring into one another’s face waiting for the miracle of science the pain grew worse.” — Thornton Wilder Copy Share
I am convinced that, except in a few extraordinary cases, one form or another of an unhappy childhood is essential to the formation of… — Thornton Wilder Copy Share
Many who have spent a lifetime in it can tell us less of love than the child that lost a dog yesterday. — Thornton Wilder Copy Share
“Cesar is not a philosophical man. His life has been one long flight from reflection. At least he is clever enough not to expose… — Thornton Wilder Copy Share
Every person who has ever lived has lived an unbroken succession of unique occasions. — Thornton Wilder Copy Share
“Without your wounds where would your power be? It is your melancholy that makes your low voice tremble into the hearts of men and… — Thornton Wilder Copy Share
Ninety-nine per cent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion. — Thornton Wilder Copy Share
There's nothing like mixing with woman to bring out all the foolishness in a man of sense. — Thornton Wilder Copy Share
