Thornton Wilder Quote

We ourselves shall be loved for awhile and forgotten. But the love will have been enough; all those impulses of love return to the love that made them. Even memory is not necessary for love. There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning.


The Bridge of San Luis Rey (1927)


We ourselves shall be loved for awhile and forgotten. But the love will have been enough; all those impulses of love return to the love that made...

We ourselves shall be loved for awhile and forgotten. But the love will have been enough; all those impulses of love return to the love that made...

We ourselves shall be loved for awhile and forgotten. But the love will have been enough; all those impulses of love return to the love that made...

We ourselves shall be loved for awhile and forgotten. But the love will have been enough; all those impulses of love return to the love that made...