Thornton Wilder
Thornton Wilder
Thornton Niven Wilderwas an American playwright and novelist. He won three Pulitzer Prizes—for the novel The Bridge of San Luis Rey and for the two plays Our Town and The Skin of Our Teeth — and a U.S. National Book Award for the novel The Eighth Day...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPlaywright
Date of Birth17 April 1897
CityMadison, WI
CountryUnited States of America
nature children scary
Nature reserves the right to inflict upon her children the most terrifying jests.
realize-life our-town realizing
Do any human beings ever realize life while they live it?
positive-thinking thinking bows
I not only bow to the inevitable; I am fortified by it.
happiness understanding alive
When God loves a creature he wants the creature to know the highest happiness and the deepest misery He wants him to know all that being alive can bring. That is his best gift. There is no happiness save in understanding the whole.
faith hope fear
Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
passion love-is energy
Love is an energy which exists of itself. It is its own value.
dream art routine
[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.
unhappy-childhood atheism essentials
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.
time fool humans
But there comes a time in everybody's life when he must decide whether he'll live among human beings or nota fool among fools or a fool alone.
two people our-town
People are meant to go through life two by two. ’Tain’t natural to be lonesome.
country travel want
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.
adventure why-not life-is
Life is a fatal adventure. It can only have one end. So why not make it as far-ranging and free as possible.
earth realize-life wonderful
Oh, earth, you're too wonderful for anybody to realize you. Do any human beings ever realize life while they live it -- every, every minute?
coffee sleep sunflower
Good-by, Good-by, world. Good-by, Grover's Corners... Mama and Papa. Good-by to clocks ticking... and Mama's sunflowers. And food and coffee. And new-ironed dresses and hot baths...and sleeping and waking up. Oh, earth, you're too wonderful for anybody to realize you.