The public for which masterpieces are intended is not of this earth. — 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
“Henceforth letter-writing had to take the place of all the affection that could not be lived.” — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
Favors cease to be favors when there are conditions attached to them. — 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
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 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
“He had lost that privilege of simple nature, the dissociation of love and pleasure. Pleasure was no longer as simple as eating;… — 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
You swore you loved me, and laughed and warned me that you would not love me forever. I did not hear you.… — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
“All of us have failed. One wishes to be punished. One is willing to assume all kinds of penance, but do you… — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
“Now he discovered that secret from which one never quite recovers, that even in the most perfect love one person loves less… — 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… — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
“We ourselves shall be loved for awhile and forgotten. But the love will have been enough; all those impulses of love return… — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
I want you to try and remember what it was like to have been very young. And particularly the days when you… — 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
“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
Even in the most perfect love one person loves less profoundly than the other. — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
But soon we shall die and all memory of those five will have left the earth, and we ourselves shall be loved… — Thornton Wilder Copy Share Image
“And oh, Claudia, Claudilla, ask me to do something -something that I can do. Do not ask me to forget you or… — 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
“This assumption that she need look for no more devotion now that her beauty had passed proceeded from the fact that she… — 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
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
