James Thurber Life Quotations

Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.

It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.

Don't get it right, just get it written.

There are two kinds of light - the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures.

I think that maybe if women and children were in charge we would get somewhere.

But those rare souls whose spirit gets magically into the hearts of men, leave behind them something more real and warmly personal than bodily presence, an ineffable and eternal thing. It is everlasting life touching us as something more than a vague, recondite concept. The sound of a great name dies like an echo; the splendor of fame fades into nothing; but the grace of a fine spirit pervades the places through which it has passed, like the haunting loveliness of mignonette.

Her own mother lived the latter years of her life in the horrible suspicion that electricity was dripping invisibly all over the house.

Beautiful things don't ask for attention.

The trouble with the lost generation is that it didn't get lost enough.

I do not have a psychiatrist and I do not want one, for the simple reason that if he listened to me long enough, he might become disturbed.