Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.
Thornton Wilder
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Thornton Wilder
Age: 78 †
Born: 1897
Born: April 17
Died: 1975
Died: December 7
Novelist
Playwright
Screenwriter
Madison
Wisconsin
Thornton Niven Wilder
Teacher
Treasure
Food
Thanks
Alive
Inspiring
Inspirational
Gratitude
Gratefulness
Moments
Grateful
Thankfulness
Beautiful
Hearts
Treasures
Heart
Conscious
Thankful
Life
Humor
Appreciation
More quotes by Thornton Wilder
Life is a fatal adventure. It can only have one end. So why not make it as far-ranging and free as possible.
Thornton Wilder
Doctors are mostly impostors. The older a doctor is and the more venerated he is, the more he must pretend to know everything. Of course, they grow worse with time. Always look for a doctor who is hated by the best doctors. Always seek out a bright young doctor before he comes down with nonsense.
Thornton Wilder
For what human ill does dawn not seem to be alternative?
Thornton Wilder
Nature reserves the right to inflict upon her children the most terrifying jests.
Thornton Wilder
The stuff of which masterpieces are made drifts about the world waiting to be clothed in words.
Thornton Wilder
[Whenever] you get near the human race, there's layers and layers of nonsense.
Thornton Wilder
Many plays - certainly mine - are like blank checks. The actors and directors put their own signatures on them.
Thornton Wilder
Enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate.
Thornton Wilder
The best part of married life is the fights. The rest is merely so-so.
Thornton Wilder
Winning children (who appear so guileless) are children who have discovered how effective charm and modesty and a delicately calculated spontaneity are in winning what they want.
Thornton Wilder
There is nothing like eavesdropping to show you that the world outside your head is different from the world inside your head.
Thornton Wilder
A purpose is the eternal condition of success.
Thornton Wilder
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
Where there is an unknowable, there is a promise.
Thornton Wilder
All that we know about those we have loved and lost is that they would wish us to remember them with a more intensified realization of their reality. What is essential does not die but clarifies. The highest tribute to the dead is not grief but gratitude.
Thornton Wilder
How do you know what the world is like? Do you know the world is a foul sty? Do you know if you rip the fronts off houses you'd find swine? The world's a hell. What does it matter what happens in it?
Thornton Wilder
One of the dangers of the American artist is that he finds himself almost exclusively thrown in with persons more or less in the arts. He lives among them, eats among them, quarrels with them, marries them.
Thornton Wilder
you have to love life to have life, and you need to have life to love life
Thornton Wilder
the whole purport of literature...is the notation of the heart. Style is but the faintly contemptible vessel in which the bitter liquid is recommended to the world.
Thornton Wilder
Every writer is necessarily a critic - that is, each sentence is a skeleton accompanied by enormous activity of rejection and each selection is governed by general principles concerning truth, force, beauty, and so on. The critic that is in every fabulist is like the iceberg - nine-tenths of him is under water.
Thornton Wilder
