Authors — Quotes

Thornton Wilder Quotes: 8

Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.
The knowledge that she would never be loved in return acted upon her ideas as a tide acts upon cliffs.
The Bridge of San Luis Rey
People are meant to go through life two by two. ’Tain’t natural to be lonesome.
Our Town
Love is an energy which exists of itself. It is its own value.
Let us at least say of religion that it means that every part of the body is infused with mind, not that the mind is overwhelmed and drowned in body. For the principal attribute of the Gods, without or within us, is mind.
The Ides of March
Love as education is one of the great powers of the world, but it hangs in a delicate suspension; it achieves its harmony as seldom as does love by the senses. Frustrated, it creates even greater havoc, for like all love it is a madness.
The Ides of March
I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being.