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

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

“Oh, earth, you're too wonderful for anybody to realize you.”

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

“All that we know about those we have loved and lost is that they would wish us to remember them with a more intensified realization of their reality. What is essential does not die but clarifies. The highest tribute to the dead is not grief but gratitude.”

“Good-by, Good-by, world. Good-by, Grover's Corners... Mama and Papa. Good-by to clocks ticking... and Mama's sunflowers. And food and coffee. And new-ironed dresses and hot baths...and sleeping and waking up. Oh, earth, you're too wonderful for anybody to realize you.”

“the condition of leadership adds new degrees of solitariness to the basic solitude of mankind. Every order that we issue increases the extent to which we are alone, and every show of deference which is extended to us separates us from our fellows.”