Nature reserves the right to inflict upon her children the most terrifying jests. — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
Man is not an end but a beginning. We are at the beginning of the second week. We are children of the… — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
“Many who have spent a lifetime can tell us less of love than the child that lost a dog yesterday.” — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
I am convinced that, except in a few extraordinary cases, one form or another of an unhappy childhood is essential to the… — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
The planting of trees is the least self-centered of all that we can do. It is a purer act of faith than… — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
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 Image
“Her religious beliefs went first, for all she could ask of a god, or of immortality, was the gift of a place… — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
“Camila had intended to be perfunctory and if possible impudent, but now she was struck for the first time with the dignity… — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
Winning children (who appear so guileless) are children who have discovered how effective charm and modesty and a delicately calculated spontaneity are… — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
I didn't marry you because you were perfect. I didn't even marry you because I loved you. I married you because you… — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
“The type of the Inevitable is death. I remember well that in my youth I believed that I was certainly exempt from… — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
Without your wounds where would your power be? It is your melancholy that makes your low voice tremble into the hearts of… — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
“The knowledge that she would never be loved in return acted upon her ideas as a tide acts upon cliffs. Her religious… — 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
“Many who have dedicated their life to love, can tell us less about this subject than a child who lost his dog… — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
She had never realized any love save love as passion. Such love, though it expends itself in generosity and thoughtfulness, though it… — 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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
The knowledge that she would never be loved in return acted upon her ideas as a tide acts upon cliffs. — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
“But while they continued staring into one another’s face waiting for the miracle of science the pain grew worse.” — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
Every person who has ever lived has lived an unbroken succession of unique occasions. — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
