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 WilderThe difference between a little money and no money at all is enormous-and can shatter the world. And the difference between a little money and an enormous amount of money is very slight-and that, also, can shatter the world.
Thornton WilderWe all know that something is eternal. And it ainโt houses and it ainโt names, and it ainโt earth, and it ainโt even the stars . . . everybody knows in their bones that something is eternal, and that something has to do with human beings. All the greatest people ever lived have been telling us that for five thousand years and yet youโd be surprised how people are always losing hold of it. Thereโs something way down deep thatโs eternal about every human being. -stage manager, in the play OUR TOWN
Thornton Wilder