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Thornton Wilder Quotes

Thornton Wilder quotes about humanity

American Novelist, Writer April 17, 1897 – December 7, 1975

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But there comes a moment in everybody's life when he must decide whether he'll live among the human beings or not - a fool among fools or a fool alone. Thornton Wilder
If there were any plan in the universe at all, if there were any pattern in human life, surely it could be discovered mysteriously latent in those lives so suddenly cut off. Either we live by accident and die by accident, or we live by plan and die by plan. Thornton Wilder
Emily: Do any human beings ever realise life while they live it?--every, every minute? Stage Manager: No. The saints and poets, maybe--they do some. Thornton Wilder
Thornton Wilder quote: "Do any human beings ever realize life while they live it?"
Do any human beings ever realize life while they live it? Thornton Wilder
We all know that something is eternal. And it ain’t houses and it ain’t names, and it ain’t earth, and it ain’t even the stars . . . everybody knows in their bones that something is eternal, and that something has to do with human beings. All the greatest people ever lived have been telling us that for five thousand years and yet you’d be surprised how people are always losing hold of it. There’s something way down deep that’s eternal about every human being. -stage manager, in the play OUR... Thornton Wilder
The very angels themselves cannot persuade the wretched and blundering children on earth as can one human being broken on the wheels of living. 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
Thornton Wilder quote: "For what human ill does not dawn seem to be an alleviation?"
For what human ill does not dawn seem to be an alleviation? Thornton Wilder
Thornton Wilder quote: "Wherever you come near the human race there’s layers and..."
Wherever you come near the human race there’s layers and layers of nonsense. Thornton Wilder

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