Letters Quote by Thornton Wilder Download Open image ““Henceforth letter-writing had to take the place of all the affection that could not be lived.”” — Thornton Wilder ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Letters Love Old fashioned Writing
“This was a letter to be run through eagerly, to be read deliberately, to supply matter for much reflection, and to leave everything in… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“We lay aside letters never to read them again, and at last destroy them out of discretion, and so disappears the most beautiful, the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“It's not the letter she imagined she would write, but once you start, all the other letters you've ever written in your life have… — Susan Elderkin Copy Share Image
“There was only one four-lettered word having precedence over life itself and it was LOVE.” — Faraaz Kazi Copy Share Image
“People should love in the same way that they should write; insistently, fervently, forever.” — R. YS Perez Copy Share Image
“Only writing could soak up his loneliness and pain. Written words could tell him who he was.” — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
“The words of the letter had long since been whisked away by time, but the poems he kept prisoner in his heart.” — Felix Alexander Copy Share Image
“All my life I have written letters - to our mother, our relatives, a wide circle of friends and acquaintance, to my husband, to… — Delia Sherman Copy Share Image
“The Arrangement was very simple, so simple in fact that it didn’t really deserve the capital letter, which it had got for simply being… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“What would life be like without her writing? Writing filled her life with beauty and mystery, gave it life...and promise.” — Maud Hart Lovelace Copy Share Image
“Letters are, of course, quite special in my view, for when a reader has been sufficiently moved (or even perturbed) by a book to… — Chinua Achebe 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
I cannot forbid a person to marry several wives, for it does not contradict Scripture. MARTIN LUTHER, letter to Chancellor Gregory Brück, January 13,… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
It's like the query letter problem that I just mentioned, magnified a hundredfold. You might be good at telling a story, but that doesn't… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
Memory revises me. Even now a letter comes from a place I don’t know, from someone with my name and postmarked years ago, while… — Li-Young Lee Copy Share Image
You cannot ... transmute some incoherent mixture of words into sense merely by introducing the three-letter word "God" to be its grammatical subject. — Antony Flew Copy Share Image
Another success is the post-office, with its educating energy augmented by cheapness and guarded by a certain religious sentimentin mankind; so that the power… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Woe to you, my Princess, when I come. I will kiss you quite red and feed you till you are plump. And if you… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
In proportion as our inward life fails, we go more constantly and desperately to the post office. You may depend on it, that the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Dear Beloved woman, Time… so much time has passed since my love wrote his last words for me. And yet I remember it as… — Talon P.S Copy Share Image
Helvetica is the jeans, and Univers the dinner jacket. Helvetica is here to stay. — Adrian Frutiger Copy Share Image
Letter-writing on the part of a busy man or woman is the quintessence of generosity. — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image