"Many who have spent a lifetime in it can tell us less of love than the child that lost a dog yesterday.
I can't look at everything hard enough!
More Thornton Wilder quotes
"People are meant to go through life two by two. ’Tain’t natural to be lonesome.
"I want you to try and remember what it was like to have been very young.And particularly the days when you were first in love; when you were like a pe...
"Yes, now you know. Now you know! That's what it was to be alive. To move about in a cloud of ignorance; to go up and down trampling on the feelings of...
"Emily: Oh, Mama, look at me one minute as though you really saw me. Mama, fourteen years have gone by. I'm dead. You're a grandmother, Mama! Wally's d...
"Her religious beliefs went first, for all she could ask of a god, or of immortality, was the gift of a place where daughters love their mothers; the o...
"All of us have failed. One wishes to be punished. One is willing to assume all kinds of penance, but do you know, my daughter, that in love -- I scarc...
"Either we live by accident and die by accident, or we live by plan and die by plan.
"The knowledge that she would never be loved in return acted upon her ideas as a tide acts upon cliffs.
"This assumption that she need look for no more devotion now that her beauty had passed proceeded from the fact that she had never realized any love sa...
"You swore you loved me, and laughed and warned me that you would not love me forever. I did not hear you. You were speaking in a language I did not un...
"The type of the Inevitable is death. I remember well that in my youth I believed that I was certainly exempt from its operation. First when my daughte...
"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 th...