Thomas Wolfe Quotes

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

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

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

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

If a man has a talent and cannot use it he has failed. If he has a talent and uses only half of it he has partly failed. If he has a talent and learns somehow to use the whole of it he has gloriously succeeded and won a satisfaction and a triumph few men ever know.

Death - the last voyage the longest the best.

By God, I shall spend the rest of my life getting my heart back, healing and forgetting every scar you put upon me when I was a child. The first move I ever made, after the cradle, was to crawl for the door, and every move I have made since has been an effort to escape.

There is no spectacle on earth more appealing than that of a beautiful woman in the act of cooking dinner for someone she loves.