I've never forgotten for long at a time that living is struggle. I know that every good and excellent thing in the world stands moment by moment on the razor-edge of danger and must be fought for -- whether it's a field, or a home, or a country.
Thornton Wilder
I am convinced that, except in a few extraordinary cases, one form or another of an unhappy childhood is essential to the formation of exceptional gifts.
Thornton Wilder
For what human ill does dawn not seem to be alternative?
Thornton Wilder
Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
Thornton Wilder
The best thing about animals is they don't talk much.
Thornton Wilder
Cool Quotes
Many plays, are like blank checks. The actors and directors put their own signatures on them.
Thornton Wilder
There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning.
Thornton Wilder
Love Quotes
A play visibly represents pure existing.
Thornton Wilder
It is only in appearance that time is a river. It is a vast landscape and it is the eye of the beholder that moves.
Thornton Wilder
It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.