Thomas Wolfe Quotes

In Sleep we lie all naked and alone, in Sleep we are united at the heart of night and darkness, and ...

America - it is a fabulous country, the only fabulous country; it is the only place where miracles n...

You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money compliments o...

Is not this the true romantic feeling - not to desire to escape life but to prevent life from escap...

Publishing is a very mysterious business. It is hard to predict what kind of sale or reception a boo...

The reason a writer writes a book is to forget a book and the reason a reader reads one is to rememb...

I believe that we are lost here in America, but I believe we shall be found. And this belief, which ...

Culture is the arts elevated to a set of beliefs.

What I had to face, the very bitter lesson that everyone who wants to write has got to learn, was th...

Lost. He understood that men were forever strangers to one another, that no one ever comes really to...

Loneliness is and always has been the central and inevitable experience of every man.

You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments, o...

There is no spectacle on earth more appealing than that of a beautiful woman in the act of cooking d...

That enfabled rock that ship of life that swarming million-footed tower-masted sky-soaring cita...

All things on earth point home in old October; sailors to sea, travellers to walls and fences, hunte...

You can't go back home to your family, back home to your childhood, back home to romantic love, back...

Come up into the hills, O my young love. Return! O lost, and by the wind grieved, ghost, come back a...

His life coiled back into the brown murk of the past like a twined filament of electric wire; he gav...

By God, I shall spend the rest of my life getting my heart back, healing and forgetting every scar y...

We do not want to be told what we know. We do not want to call things by their names, although we're...

And his soul plunged downward, drowning in that deep pit: he felt that could never again escape from...

The thought of these vast stacks of books would drive him mad: the more he read, the less he seemed ...

It was a cruel city, but it was a lovely one; a savage city, yet it had such tenderness; a bitter, h...

He had learned some of the things that every man must find out for himself, and he had found out abo...

From p. 40 of Signet Edition of Thomas Wolfe's _You Can't Go Home Again_ (1940):Some things will nev...

There came to him an image of man’s whole life upon the earth. It seemed to him that all man’s life ...

Something has spoken to me in the night...and told me that I shall die, I know not where. Saying: "[...

If a man has a talent and cannot use it he has failed. If he has a talent and uses only half of it ...

Is this not the true romantic feeling; not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escapi...

Death - the last voyage the longest the best.

Most of the time we think we're sick it's all in the mind.

You can't go home again

If a man has talent and can't use it, he's failed. If he uses only half of it, he has partly failed....