“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
“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
“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
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
Even in the most perfect love one person loves less profoundly than the other. — 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
“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
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
“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
“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
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
“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
Choose the least important day in your life. It will be important enough. — 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
