“Do any human beings ever realize life while they live it?”

“EMILY: "Does anyone ever realize life while they live it...every, every minute?"STAGE MANAGER: "No. Saints and poets maybe...they do some.”

“If there were any plan in the universe at all, if there were any pattern in human life, surely it could be discovered mysteriously latent in those lives so suddenly cut off. Either we live by accident and die by accident, or we live by plan and die by plan.”

“We all know that something is eternal. And it ain’t houses and it ain’t names, and it ain’t earth, and it ain’t even the stars . . . everybody knows in their bones that something is eternal, and that something has to do with human beings. All the greatest people ever lived have been telling us that for five thousand years and yet you’d be surprised how people are always losing hold of it. There’s something way down deep that’s eternal about every human being.”

“Does anybody realize what life iswhile they're living it- every, every minute?”

“A dramatist is one who believes that the pure event, an action involving human beings, is more arresting than any comment that can be made upon it.”

“The very angels themselves cannot persuade the wretched and blundering children on earth as can one human being broken on the wheels of living.”