Quotes by Thomas Wolfe

Thomas Wolfe

…he was like a man who stands upon a hill above the town he had left, yet does not say ‘The town is near,’ but turns his eyes upon the distant soaring ranges.

Doe

Eye

Men

…the dark ancestral cave, the womb from which mankind emerged into the light, forever pulls one back – but…you can’t go home again…you can’t go…back home to the escapes of Time and Memory. You Can’t Go Home Again

Dark

Home

Memories

[T]he essence of belief is doubt, the essence of reality is questioning. The essence of Time is Flow, not Fix. The essence of faith is the knowledge that all flows and that everything must change. The growing man is Man Alive, and his “philosophy” must grow, must flow, with him. . . . the man too fixed today, unfixed tomorrow – and his body of beliefs is nothing but a series of fixations.

Men

Philosophy

Reality

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

Mad

Men

Strong

All things belonging to the earth will never change-the leaf, the blade, the flower, the wind that cries and sleeps and wakes again, the trees whose stiff arms clash and tremble in the dark, and the dust of lovers long since buried in the earth-all things proceeding from the earth to seasons, all things that lapse and change and come again upon the earth-these things will always be the same, for they come up from the earth that never changes, they go back into the earth that lasts forever. Only the earth endures, but it endures forever.

Dark

Flower

Sleep

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.

Home

Love

Wall

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.

America

Country

Time

And who shall say–whatever disenchantment follows–that we ever forget magic; or that we can ever betray, on this leaden earth, the apple-tree, the singing, and the gold?

Apples

Magic

Tree

But why had he always felt so strongly the magnetic pull of home, why had he thought so much about it and remembered it with such blazing accuracy, if it did not matter, and if this little town, and the immortal hills around it, was not the only home he had on earth? He did not know. All that he knew was that the years flow by like water, and that one day men come home again.

Home

Men

Years

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.

Children

Healing

Moving

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America

Apples

Army

Art

Art And Culture

Artist

Beautiful

Behinds

Being Alone

Believe

Book

Brooklyn

Children

Cities

Comfort

Country

Culture

Cutting

Dark

Doe

Done

Dream

Escaping

Eye

Facts

Fall

Finals

Firsts

Flower

Food

Forever

Genius

Ghost

Girl

Healing

Heart

Home

Hypocrisy

Inspirational

Iron

Knows

Land

Lasts

Life

Loneliness

Lonely

Looks

Loss

Lost

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Quotes by Thomas Wolfe

Thomas Wolfe

…he was like a man who stands upon a hill above the town he had left, yet does not say ‘The town is near,’ but turns his eyes upon the distant soaring ranges.

…the dark ancestral cave, the womb from which mankind emerged into the light, forever pulls one back – but…you can’t go home again…you can’t go…back home to the escapes of Time and Memory. You Can’t Go Home Again

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

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.

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.

And who shall say–whatever disenchantment follows–that we ever forget magic; or that we can ever betray, on this leaden earth, the apple-tree, the singing, and the gold?

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.

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