Thornton Wilder Quotes About Time

Quotes about: Time

• 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

  Time, Moving, Eye

  "The Eighth Day". Book by Thornton Wilder, 1967.

• But there comes a time in everybody's life when he must decide whether he'll live among human beings or nota fool among fools or a fool alone.

  Thornton Wilder

  Time, Fool, Humans

  1954 The Matchmaker, act 4.

• A living is made, Mr Kemper, by selling something that everybody needs at least once a year.Yes, sir! And a million ismade by producing something that everybody needs every day.You artists produce something that nobody needs at any time.

  Thornton Wilder

  Time, Artist, Years

  1954 The Matchmaker, act 1.

• That’s what it was like to be alive. To move about in a cloud of ignorance; to go up and down trampling on the feelings of those...of those about you. To spend and waste time as though you had a million years. To be always at the mercy of one self-centered passion, or another. Now you know- that’s the happy existence you wanted to go back to. Ignorance and blindness. -Simon Stimson, OUR TOWN

  Thornton Wilder

  Time, Moving, Passion

  Thornton Wilder (1966). “Three Plays: Our Town, The Skin of Our Teeth, The Matchmaker”

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