Quotes by Playwrights - Page 17

You have a spark of anarchy in your spirit and that's not to be tolerated. Nothing wild or honest is tolerated her! It has to be extinguished...

Tennessee Williams

No one has ever properly understood me, I have never fully understood anyone; and no one understands anyone else

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A good mind is the mind which leaves no one on the ground when rising!

Mehmet Murat ildan

Anything that doesn't take years of your life and drive you to suicide hardly seems worth doing.

Cormac McCarthy

Don't fool yourself. Talking about writing is not the same as actually doing it.

Christy Hall

In the wild struggle for existence, we want to have something that endures, and so we fill our minds with rubbish and facts, in the silly hope of keeping our place.

Oscar Wilde

Men do not turn from God so easily. Not so easily. Deep in each man is the knowledge that something knows of his existence. Something knows, and cannot e fled nor hid from. To imagine otherwise is to imagine the unspeakable. It was never that this man ceased to believe in God. No. It was rather that he came to believe terrible things of him.

Cormac McCarthy

All drama is about lies. All drama is about something that’s hidden. A drama starts because a situation becomes imbalanced by a lie. The lie may be something we tell each other or something we think about ourselves, but the lie imbalances a situation. If you’re cheating on your wife the repression of that puts things out of balance; or if you’re someone you think you’re not, and you think you should be further ahead in your job, that neurotic vision takes over your life and you’re plagued by it until you’re cleansed. At the end of a play the lie is revealed. The better the play the more surprising and inevitable the lie is. Aristotle told us this

David Mamet

Bear no malice for the ones who leave you.

Bert V. Royal

A mind that tastes the grief obtains a good chance to travel to the Land of Wisdom!

Mehmet Murat ildan

We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never either so wretched or so happy as we say we are.

Honoré de Balzac

A peevish self-willed harlotry it is.*She’s a stubborn little brat.*

William Shakespeare

Unattached and aimless, these old men are always infatuated with little certainties and regularities such as those that ordered the life of Mr. Krupper as seen from outside. Habit is living. Anything unexpected reminds them of death.("Hard Candy")

Tennessee Williams

One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession.

Sophocles

None of us is ever satisfied with what we are.

Terence

The most important thing in life for you is your positive stance in life!

Mehmet Murat ildan

For in that sleep of death what dreams may come When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,Must give us pause

William Shakespeare

Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.

Langston Hughes

Upstairs on a bus! It’s Unbelievable

Diane Samuels

Oho, now I know what you are. You are an advocate of Useful Knowledge.... Well, allow me to introduce myself to you as an advocate of Ornamental Knowledge. You like the mind to be a neat machine, equipped to work efficiently, if narrowly, and with no extra bits or useless parts. I like the mind to be a dustbin of scraps of brilliant fabric, odd gems, worthless but fascinating curiosities, tinsel, quaint bits of carving, and a reasonable amount of healthy dirt. Shake the machine and it goes out of order; shake the dustbin and it adjusts itself beautifully to its new position.

Robertson Davies

A silver-tongued charlatan and a half-wit society are made for each other! When these two come together in an election, a great disaster happens: Charlatan comes to power!

Mehmet Murat ildan

If it is nothingness that awaits us, let us make an injustice of it, let us fight against destiny, even without hope of victory.

Miguel de Unamuno

The soul might be silent but the servant of the soul has always got a voice and it has got one for a reason.

Cormac McCarthy

Let the purity and innocence of a child be your one and only religion!

Mehmet Murat ildan

No one should let yesterday use up too much of today. Easy to say, hard to live.

Andrea Hairston

I will come back to you, I swear I will;And you will know me still.I shall be only a little tallerThan when I went.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Looking for a good book to read and a great teacher to listen to? Here is a good book and here is a great teacher: Other cultures! To read this book and to listen to this teacher, all you need is to travel!

Mehmet Murat ildan

A touch may not always be a love but love is always a touch!

Mehmet Murat ildan

plantitIt will sproutBut forget about the rustic festivitiesFor the explosive word falls harmlessly eternal throughthe compact generations

Jean Cocteau

He lay listening to the water drip in the woods. Bedrock, this. The cold and the silence. The ashes of the late world carried on the bleak and temporal winds to and fro in the void. Carried forth and scattered and carried forth again. Everything uncoupled from its shoring. Unsupported in the ashen air. Sustained by a breath, trembling and brief. If only my heart were stone.

Cormac McCarthy

I have found that sitting in a place where you have never sat before can be inspiring.

Dodie Smith

I love hearing my relations abused. It is the only thing that makes me put up with them at all. Relations are simply a tedious pack of people, who haven't got the remotest knowledge of how to live nor the smallest instinct about when to die.

Oscar Wilde

I have inherited this burden of superstition and nonsense. I govern innumerable men but must acknowledge that I am governed by birds and thunderclaps

Thornton Wilder

She was at that crucial age when a women begins to regret having stayed faithful to a husband she never really loved, when the glowing sunset colors of her beauty offer her one last, urgent choice between maternal and feminine love. At such a moment a life that seemed to have chosen its course long ago is questioned once again, for the last time the magic compass needle of the will hovers between final resignation and the hope of erotic experience.

Stefan Zweig

Pasteboard pies and paper flowers are being banished from the stage by the growth of that power of accurate observation which is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it....

George Bernard Shaw

Respect the hand stronger than your hand if and only if that hand is just and an honourable hand!

Mehmet Murat ildan

[The ruling class] sees people in the working class as being almost animals. It sees itself as being synonymous with civilization and its cultivation as coming from its natural abilities and not from its wealth and privileged opportunities. It doesn't see that the way in which it monopolizes these things distorts the culture it derives from them and that this makes its culture irrational and an enemy of civilization.

Edward Bond

You are not here to verify,instruct yourself, or inform curiosityor carry report. You are here to kneelwhere prayer has been valid. And prayer is more than an order of words, the conscious occupation of the praying mind, or the sound of the voice praying.

T.S Eliot

I think about that story a lot now. People in a boat, waiting, terrified, while implacable, unsmiling men, irresistibly strong, seize …. Maybe the person next to you, maybe you, and with no warning at all, with time only for a quick intake of air you are pitched into freezing, turbulent water and salt and darkness to drown.

Tony Kushner

Your life will be colourful if you just add colours to your life! It is your own decisions that will determine to have a miserable or a marvellous life!

Mehmet Murat ildan

I've always resented the smug statements of politicians, media commentators, corporate executives who talked of how, in America, if you worked hard you would become rich. The meaning of that was if you were poor it was because you hadn't worked hard enough. I knew this was a lie, about my father and millions of others, men and women who worked harder than anyone, harder than financiers and politicians, harder than anybody if you accept that when you work at an unpleasant job that makes it very hard work indeed.

Howard Zinn

Chater: You dare to call me that. I demand satisfaction!Septimus: Mrs Chater demanded satisfaction and now you are demanding satisfaction. I cannot spend my time day and night satisfying the demands of the Chater family.

Tom Stoppard

Only one who loves can remember so well.

Anton Chekhov

Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation.

Graham Greene

The world is your real country! Replace your local mind with the universal one!

Mehmet Murat ildan

Thousands of channels there are through which the beauty of your soul may sail even unto our thoughts. Above all is there the wonderful, central channel of love.

Maurice Maeterlinck

The word 'love,' used in connection with the reproduction of our species, is the most odious blasphemy taught in our times.

Honoré de Balzac

But thoughts the slave of life, and life, Time’s fool,And Time, that takes survey of all the world,Must have a stop.

William Shakespeare

All the doors you ignored or refused to enter represents your uncreated fates!

Mehmet Murat ildan

Happy the man who early learns the wide chasm that lies between his wishes and his powers.

Johann von Goethe

Let the ‘why not’ philosophy be your life principle!

Mehmet Murat ildan

But what is this clock, marking only so many years, that such men seem to consult in the dark of their being? We do not know. All we do know for certain is that no such clock, no such warnings, can come out of the passing time that we are told is all we have. They belong to a larger idea of Time, like all these dreams that came true.

J.B. Priestley

Our goodness is our wealth and when we close our eyes to the tragedies of the hard lives, we start losing our wealth!

Mehmet Murat ildan

Better to die on one's feet than to live on one's knees.

Jean-Paul Sartre

Courage is to take hard knocks like a man when occasion calls.

Plautus

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

Oscar Wilde

A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with.

Tennessee Williams

Here is a fact for you: Your prison is made by yourself!

Mehmet Murat ildan

When you turn your back to the truth, the truth will soon appear before you!

Mehmet Murat ildan

Remember that every man is a variation of yourself

William Saroyan

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