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
world razors good-things
Every good thing in the world stands on the razor-edge of danger.
two people our-town
People are meant to go through life two by two. ’Tain’t natural to be lonesome.
faith hope fear
Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.
choices mind sovereign
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.
clarity consciousness pool
Faith is a never-ending pool of clarity, reaching far beyond the margins of consciousness. We all know more than we know we know.
friendship
An incinerator is a writer's best friend.
time moving passion
That’s what it was like to be alive. To move about in a cloud of ignorance; to go up and down trampling on the feelings of those...of those about you. To spend and waste time as though you had a million years. To be always at the mercy of one self-centered passion, or another. Now you know- that’s the happy existence you wanted to go back to. Ignorance and blindness. -Simon Stimson, OUR TOWN
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.
doe saint realize-life
EMILY: "Does anyone ever realize life while they live it...every, every minute?" STAGE MANAGER: "No. Saints and poets maybe...they do some.
inspirational success doe
Providence has nothing good or high in store for one who does not resolutely aim at something high or good. A purpose is the eternal condition of success.
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.
funny ninety-nine people
Ninety-nine percent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion.
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.
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?