When you're safe at home you wish you were having an adventure; when you're having an adventure you wish you were safe at home. Thornton Wilder adventurehomesafe Change image and share on social
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. Thornton Wilder alivebringcreature share on social
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 appearancebeholdereye Change image and share on social
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. Thornton Wilder birthchoicechoose Change image and share on social
Literature is the orchestration of platitudes. Thornton Wilder literatureorchestrationplatitude Change image and share on social
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 bridgedeadland Change image and share on social
Many who have spent a lifetime in it can tell us less of love than the child that lost a dog yesterday. Thornton Wilder childdoglifetime Change image and share on social
Ninety-nine percent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion. Thornton Wilder contagiondangerfool Change image and share on social