The best part of married life is the fights. The rest is merely so-so. — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
“Does anybody realize what life is while they're living it- every, every minute?” — 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
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
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
We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures. — 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
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
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
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
“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
“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
“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
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
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
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
“They had been brought up to think that the domestic virtues were self-evident and universal; they had been starved of the knowledge… — 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
“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
“Most of all, however, these observances attack and undermine the very spirit of life within the minds of men. They afford to… — 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… — 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
“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
Life is a fatal adventure. It can only have one end. So why not make it as far-ranging and free as possible. — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
Choose the least important day in your life. It will be important enough. — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
Even in the most perfect love one person loves less profoundly than the other. — 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
EMILY: "Does anyone ever realize life while they live it...every, every minute?" STAGE MANAGER: "No. Saints and poets maybe...they do some. — 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
A living is made, Mr Kemper, by selling something that everybody needs at least once a year.Yes, sir! And a million ismade… — 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
People a thousand years from now - this is the way we were in the provinces north of New York at the… — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
“Am I sure that there is no mind behind our existence and no mystery anywhere in the universe? I think I am.… — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“But the love will have been enough; all those impulses of love return to the love that made them. Even memory is… — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
“She had never brought courage to either life or love. Her eyes ransacked her heart. She thought of the amulets and of… — 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
