Thornton Wilder Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old Thornton Wilder quotes, Thornton Wilder sayings, and Thornton Wilder proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.'

The more decisions that you are forced to make alone, the more you are aware of your freedom to choose. Thornton Wilder
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. Thornton Wilder
Literature is the orchestration of platitudes. Thornton Wilder
When you're safe at home you wish you were having an adventure; when you're having an adventure you whish you were safe at home. Thornton Wilder
Where there is an unknowable, there is a promise. Thornton Wilder
Many who have spent a lifetime in it can tell us less of love than the child that lost a dog yesterday. Thornton Wilder
We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures. Thornton Wilder
My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate. That's my philosophy. Thornton Wilder
The best thing about animals is that they don't talk much. Thornton Wilder
The future author is one who discovers that language, the exploration and manipulation of the resources of language, will serve him in winning through to his way. Thornton Wilder
Many who have spent a lifetime in it can tell us less of love than the child that lost a dog yesterday. Thornton Wilder
A play visibly represents pure existing. Thornton Wilder
We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures. Thornton Wilder
The highest tribute to the dead is not grief but gratitude. Thornton Wilder
We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures. Thornton Wilder
The future is the most expensive luxury in the world. Thornton Wilder
It is only in appearance that time is a river. It is rather a vast landscape and it is the eye of the beholder that moves. Thornton Wilder
There's nothing like eavesdropping to show you that the world outside your head is different from the world inside your head. Thornton Wilder
The art of biography is more difficult than is generally supposed. 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
Marriage is a bribe to make a housekeeper think she's a householder. Thornton Wilder
We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures. Thornton Wilder
The more decisions that you are forced to make alone, the more you are aware of your freedom to choose. Thornton Wilder
My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate— that's my philosophy. Thornton Wilder
Love is an energy which exists of itself. It is its own value. Thornton Wilder
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
Oh, earth, you're too wonderful for anybody to realize you. Thornton Wilder
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
Nurse one vice in your bosom. Give it the attention it deserves and let your virtues spring up modestly around it. Then you'll have the miser who's no liar; and the drunkard who's the benefactor of the whole city. Thornton Wilder
We do not choose the day of our birth nor may we choose the day of our death, yet choice is the sovereign faculty of the mind. Thornton Wilder