Thornton Wilder Quotes

Life is a kind of struggle. Life is a sort of fight.

Life is trouble. Only death is not. To be alive is to unfasten your belt and look for a fight.

To live is to fight. We just fight in different arenas.

Life is warfare.

I had to fight all my life to survive. They were all against me... but I beat the bastards and left them in the ditch.

I'm drawn to roles where someone has to struggle or fight.

Life always has a bit of a challenge in front of you, and that's what makes you fight for it.

No one gets to their heaven without a fight...

Business is a fight, a continual struggle, just as life is

We are all fighters, every single person who walks this earth is a fighter, everything that lives. To live is to fight. And we just fight in different arenas.

You have to fight just to survive.

I'm still swimming.

Poverty is uncomfortable; but nine times out of ten the best thing that can happen to a young man is to be tossed overboard and compelled to sink or swim.

I pass my life in preventing the storm from blowing down the tent, and I drive in the pegs as fast as they are pulled up.

No matter how bad things get you got to go on living, even if it kills you.

You've got to keep fighting - you've got to risk your life every six months to stay alive.

My life is a beautiful struggle.

How can they beat me? I've been struck by lightning, had two back operations, and been divorced twice.

The way I see things, the way I see life, I see it as a struggle. And there's a great deal of reward I have gained coming to that understanding - that existence is a struggle.

We have to fight sometimes to survive.

Well, I'm wrestling alligators.

If there's no fire, there's no scream. If there's no scream, then no one hears you and no one comes to help you in the first place. The depth of my struggle has definitely determined the height of my success. To be able to teach my kids not just about success but about the struggle that comes with it.

Precious, she gets hit by life so many different ways and so many times, but she doesn't yield to it. She continues to get up and she continues to struggle for a better life.

The struggle is my life.

You should fight for every breath you have.