“Cesar is not a philosophical man. His life has been one long flight from reflection. At least he is clever enough not… — 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
But there comes a moment in everybody's life when he must decide whether he'll live among the human beings or not -… — 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
“If there were any plan in the universe at all, if there were any pattern in human life, surely it could be… — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures. — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
He regarded love as a sort of cruel malady through which the elect are required to pass in their late youth and… — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
“Emily: Oh, Mama, look at me one minute as though you really saw me. Mama, fourteen years have gone by. I'm dead.… — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the… — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
“He divided the inhabitants of this world into two groups, into those who had loved and those who had not. It was… — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
That’s what it was like to be alive. To move about in a cloud of ignorance; to go up and down trampling… — 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
People are meant to go through life two by two. ’Tain’t natural to be lonesome. — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
We live in what is, but we find a thousand ways not to face it. Great theater strengthens our faculty to face… — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
“The first and last schoolmaster of life is living and committing oneself unreservedly and dangerously to living; to men who know this… — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
When you're at war, you think about a better life; when you're at peace you think about a more comfortable one. — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I've never forgotten for long at a time that living is struggle. I know that every good and excellent thing in the… — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
“Does anybody realize what life is while they're living it- every, every minute?” — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
How terrifying and glorious the role of man if, indeed, without guidance and without consolation he must create from his own vitals… — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
But there comes a time in everybody's life when he must decide whether he'll live among human beings or nota fool among… — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
“Let's really look at one another!...It goes so fast. We don't have time to look at one another. I didn't realize. So… — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
The best part of married life is the fights. The rest is merely so-so. — 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
