Thornton Wilder Quotes about Love

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There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning.

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

Love, Life, Fun

Thornton Wilder (1962). “The Bridge of San Luis Rey”, New York : Limited Editions Club

Love is an energy which exists of itself. It is its own value.

Thornton Wilder

Love, Passion, Romance

Time magazine, February 03, 1958.

Many who have spent a lifetime in it can tell us less of love than the child that lost a dog yesterday.

Thornton Wilder

Love, Heartbreak, Dog

Thornton Wilder (2009). “The Bridge of San Luis Rey and Other Novels, 1926-1948”

You swore you loved me, and laughed and warned me that you would not love me forever. I did not hear you. You were speaking in a language I did not understand. Never, never, I can conceive of a love which is able to foresee its own termination. Love is its own eternity. Love is in every moment of its being: all time. It is the only glimpse we are permitted of what eternity is. So I did not hear you. The words were nonsense.

Thornton Wilder

Love, Forever, Age

Thornton Wilder (2009). “The Bridge of San Luis Rey and Other Novels, 1926-1948”