Thornton Wilder

A play visibly represents pure existing.

— Thornton Wilder

Look at that moon. Potato weather for sure.

— Thornton Wilder

People are meant to go through life two by two. ’Tain’t natural to be lonesome.

— Thornton Wilder

The greatest tribute to the dead is not grief but gratitude.

— Thornton Wilder

Either we live by accident and die by accident, or we live by plan and die by plan.

— Thornton Wilder

Choose the least important day in your life. It will be important enough.

— Thornton Wilder

I hold we cannot be said to be aware of our minds save under responsibility.

— Thornton Wilder

“The art of biography is more difficult than is generally supposed.”

— Thornton Wilder

Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.

— Thornton Wilder

A convention is an agreed-upon falsehood, a permitted lie.

— Thornton Wilder

Only it seems to me that once in your life before you die you ought to see a country where they don't…

— Thornton Wilder

Faith is a never-ending pool of clarity, reaching far beyond the margins of consciousness. We all know more than we know we…

— Thornton Wilder

The knowledge that she would never be loved in return acted upon her ideas as a tide acts upon cliffs.

— Thornton Wilder

“Style is but the faintly contemptible vessel in which the bitter liquid is recommended to the world.”

— Thornton Wilder

It is very necessary to have markers of beauty left in a world seemingly bent on making the most evil ugliness.

— Thornton Wilder

My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate.

— Thornton Wilder

There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the…

— Thornton Wilder

My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy the ice cream while it's on your plate.

— Thornton Wilder

There are the stars--doing their old, old crisscross journeys in the sky. Scholars haven't settled the matter yet, but they seem to…

— Thornton Wilder

“Camila had intended to be perfunctory and if possible impudent, but now she was struck for the first time with the dignity…

— Thornton Wilder

“There is not a single untruth, no -but after ten lines Truth shrieks, she runs distraught and disheveled through her temple's corridors;…

— Thornton Wilder

People a thousand years from now - this is the way we were in the provinces north of New York at the…

— Thornton Wilder

“Let us at least say of religion that it means that every part of the body is infused with mind, not that…

— Thornton Wilder

“The Marquesa would even have been astonished to learn that her letters were very good, for such authors live always in the…

— Thornton Wilder

When God loves a creature he wants the creature to know the highest happiness and the deepest misery He wants him to…

— Thornton Wilder

“Without your wounds where would your power be? It is your melancholy that makes your low voice tremble into the hearts of…

— Thornton Wilder

“The mind of Caesar. It is the reverse of most men's. It rejoices in committing itself. To us arrive each day a…

— Thornton Wilder

“Yes, now you know. Now you know! That's what it was to be alive. To move about in a cloud of ignorance;…

— Thornton Wilder

“Most of all, however, these observances attack and undermine the very spirit of life within the minds of men. They afford to…

— Thornton Wilder

“She had never brought courage to either life or love. Her eyes ransacked her heart. She thought of the amulets and of…

— Thornton Wilder

“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

“He divided the inhabitants of this world into two groups, into those who had loved and those who had not. It was…

— Thornton Wilder

“Esteban fell face downward upon the floor. "I am alone, alone, alone," he cried. The Captain stood above him, his great plain…

— Thornton Wilder

“It required all his delicate Epicurean education to prevent his doing something about it; he had to repeat over to himself his…

— Thornton Wilder

“Does anybody realize what life is while they're living it- every, every minute?”

— Thornton Wilder

The best part of married life is the fights. The rest is merely so-so.

— Thornton Wilder

Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.

— Thornton Wilder

The public for which masterpieces are intended is not of this earth.

— Thornton Wilder

Oh, earth, you're too wonderful for anybody to realize you.

— Thornton Wilder

The highest tribute to the dead is not grief but gratitude.

— Thornton Wilder