Thornton Wilder Quotes

Let it endure forever

Every moment is, in some ways, eternal. Once you put something into the world, it stays there.

On great fields something stays.

Reason is immortal, all else mortal.

My music will go on forever. Maybe it's a fool say that, but when me know facts me can say facts. My music will go on forever.

A record is a message, timeless.

If your subjects are eternal... they'll survive.

I propose to build for eternity.

The leaders come and go, but the people remain. Only the people are immortal

Nothing is forever, but history is forever.

Eternity forbids thee to forget.

Truth alone will endure, all the rest will be swept away before the tide of time.

I do not think seventy years is the time of a man or woman, Nor that seventy millions of years is the time of a man or woman, Nor that years will ever stop the existence of me, or any one else.

Its name-what passes not away.

Write only of what is important and eternal.

The sage has one advantage: he is immortal. If this is not his century, many others will be.

Live as if you were eternal.

... nothing ever dies that's worth remembering.

Words are the only things that last for ever.

Use life to provide something that outlasts it.

Character survives; goodness lives; love is immortal.

There is a kind of immortality in every garden.

Something there is more immortal even than the stars.

The enduring is something which must be accounted for. One cannot simply shrug it off.