Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

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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's Popular Quotes

The stuff of which masterpieces are made drifts about the world waiting to be clothed in words.

- Thornton Wilder

Every good thing in the world stands on the razor-edge of danger.

- Thornton Wilder

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

I am convinced that, except in a few extraordinary cases, one form or another of an unhappy childhood is essential to the formation of exceptional gi…

- Thornton Wilder

My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate.

- Thornton Wilder

Art is not only the desire to tell one's secret; it is the desire to tell it and hide it at the same time.

- Thornton Wilder

We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.

- Thornton Wilder

Ninety-nine percent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion.

- Thornton Wilder

If you write to impress it will always be bad, but if you write to express it will be good

- Thornton Wilder