Thomas Wolfe Quotes & Sayings

“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, or publicity.”

“Is this not the true romantic feeling; not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you.”

“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.”

“A young man is so strong, so mad, so certain, and so lost. He has everything and he is able to use nothing.”

“In Sleep we lie all naked and alone, in Sleep we are united at the heart of night and darkness, and we are strange and beautiful asleep; for we are dying the darkness and we know no death.”

“Culture is the arts elevated to a set of beliefs.”

“If a man has talent and can't use it, he's failed. If he uses only half of it, he has partly failed. If he uses the whole of it, he has succeeded, and won a satisfaction and triumph few men ever know.”

“The reason a writer writes a book is to forget a book and the reason a reader reads one is to remember it.”

“America - it is a fabulous country, the only fabulous country; it is the only place where miracles not only happen, but where they happen all the time.”