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Thomas Wolfe Quotes

Total quotes: 11
“It seems to me that in the orbit of our world you are the North Pole, I the South--so much in balance, in agreement--and yet... the whole world lies between.”
— Thomas Wolfe, You Can't Go Home Again
Tagged: Balance, World, Love, agreement
“Peace fell upon her spirit. Strong comfort and assurance bathed her whole being. Life was so solid and splendid, and so good.”
— Thomas Wolfe, You Can't Go Home Again
Tagged: Peace, Spirit, Comfort, Life
“Make your mistakes, take your chances, look silly, but keep on going. Don’t freeze up.”
— Thomas Wolfe, You Can't Go Home Again
Tagged: Mistakes, chances, Keep Going
“All things on earth point home in old October; sailors to sea, travellers to walls and fences, hunters to field and hollow and the long voice of the hounds, the lover to the love he has forsaken.”
— Thomas Wolfe, Of Time and the River: A Legend of Man's Hunger in His Youth
Tagged: Lover, Love, travel, Reminisce
“Fiction is not fact, but fiction is fact selected and understood, fiction is fact arranged and charged with purpose.”
— Thomas Wolfe, Look Homeward, Angel
Tagged: fiction, fact, purpose
“His enemy was time. Or perhaps it was his friend. One never knows for sure.”
— Thomas Wolfe, You Can't Go Home Again
Tagged: Time, Enemy, Friend, Uncertainty
“We do not want to be told what we know. We do not want to call things by their names, although we're willing to call one another bad ones. We call meanness nobility and hatred honor. The way to make yourself a hero is to make me out a scoundrel. You won't admit that either, but it's true.”
— Thomas Wolfe, Look Homeward, Angel
Tagged: Hypocrisy, Pride, Hatred, mean, Truth
“It was like a dream of hell, when a man finds his own name staring at him from the Devil's ledger; like a dream of death, when he who comes as mourner finds himself in the coffin, or as witness to a hanging, the condemned upon the scaffold.”
— Thomas Wolfe, Look Homeward, Angel
Tagged: Hell, Dream, Death
“Through Chance, we are each a ghost to all the others, and our only reality; through Chance, the huge hinge of the world, and a grain of dust; the stone that starts an avalanche, the pebble whose concentric circles widen across the seas.”
— Thomas Wolfe, Look Homeward, Angel
Tagged: Chance, Reality, impact
“He knew he would always be the sad one: caged in that little round of skull, imprisoned in that beating and most secret heart, his life must always walk down lonely passages. Lost. He understood that men were forever strangers to one another, that no one ever comes really to know any one.”
— Thomas Wolfe, Look Homeward, Angel
Tagged: Sadness, lost, Loneliness, Stranger
“When we examine the moments, acts, and statements of all kinds of people- not only the grief and ecstasy of the greatest poets, but also the huge unhappiness of the average soul, as evidenced by the innumerable strident words of abuse, hatred, contempt, mistrust, and scorn that forever grate upon our ears as the manswarm passes us in the streets -- we find, I think, that they are all suffering from the same thing. The final cause of their complaint is loneliness.”
— Thomas Wolfe, The Anatomy of Loneliness
Tagged: Moments, Unhappiness, Abuse, Hatred, contempt, Mistrust, Suffering, Loneliness
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