Thornton Wilder

We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures. ↗

— Thornton Wilder

#conscious #hearts #moments #only #our

The highest tribute to the dead is not grief but gratitude. ↗

— Thornton Wilder

#gratitude #grief

The knowledge that she would never be loved in return acted upon her ideas as a tide acts upon cliffs. ↗

— Thornton Wilder

#love #unrequited-love #family

Only it seems to me that once in your life before you die you ought to see a country where they don't talk in English and don't even want to. ↗

— Thornton Wilder

#life

People are meant to go through life two by two. ’Tain’t natural to be lonesome. ↗

— Thornton Wilder

#marriage #relationships #life

Money is like manure; it's not worth a thing unless it's spread around encouraging young things to grow. ↗

— Thornton Wilder

#money #money

you have to love life to have life, and you need to have life to love life ↗

— Thornton Wilder

#love #life

Emily: Do any human beings ever realise life while they live it?--every, every minute? Stage Manager: No. The saints and poets, maybe--they do some. ↗

— Thornton Wilder

#life #our-town #play #death

Either we live by accident and die by accident, or we live by plan and die by plan. ↗

— Thornton Wilder

#existence #life #death

[Camila] was quite incapable of establishing any harmony between the claims of her art, of her appetites, or her dreams, and of her crowded daily routine. Each of these was a world in itself. ↗

— Thornton Wilder

#life #art