Quotes by Thornton Wilder

A dramatist is one who believes that the pure event, an action involving human beings, is more arresting than any comment that can be made upon it. (Thornton Wilder)

An incinerator is a writers best friend. (Thornton Wilder)

And we ourselves shall be loved for a while and forgotten. But the love will have been enough; all those impulses of love return to the love that made them. Even memory is not necessary for love. 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)

Every good and excellent thing in the world stands moment to moment on the razor edge of danger and must be fought for. (Thornton Wilder)

For what human ill does not dawn seem to be an alleviation. (Thornton Wilder)

Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous. (Thornton Wilder)

I would love to be the poet laureate of Coney Island. (Thornton Wilder)

If I wasn't an actor, Id be a secret agent. (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)

Life is an unbroken succession of false situations. (Thornton Wilder)