Quotes by Playwrights - Page 119

Itdoes not need much wisdom to utter words of reproof; but much wisdomis needed to find such words as do not embitter a man's misfortune, butencourage him, restore to him his spirit, put spurs to the horse of hissoul, refreshed by water.
Nikolai Gogol
The nicest thing about creating ideas is that even when you finish your travelling, they continue their journey!
Mehmet Murat ildan
We made love, and then she threw up.
Sarah Kane
When an extraordinary place meets with an extraordinary light, extraordinary shadows suddenly pop out from nowhere and create the most extraordinary moments of life!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Words are easy, like the wind; Faithful friends are hard to find.
William Shakespeare
When describing nature, a writer should seize upon small details, arranging them so that the reader will see an image in his mind after he closes his eyes. For instance: you will capture the truth of a moonlit night if you'll write that a gleam like starlight shone from the pieces of a broken bottle, and then the dark, plump shadow of a dog or wolf appeared. You will bring life to nature only if you don't shrink from similes that liken its activities to those of humankind.", May 10, 1886)
Anton Chekhov
We die to each other daily. What we know of other people is only our memory of the moments during which we knew them. And they have changed since then. To pretend that they and we are the same is a useful and convenient social convention which must sometimes be broken. We must also remember that at every meeting we are meeting a stranger.
T.S Eliot
Proper deformity shows not in the fiendSo horrid as in woman.
William Shakespeare
A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation.
Molière
When you look at a piece of delicately spun glass you think of two things: how beautiful it is and how easily it can be broken.
Tennessee Williams
Your body is always wherever it is; but your mind, often somewhere else! Thus, when a person talks to you, he often talks to your body, not to your mind!
Mehmet Murat ildan
If you are a hope for someone, that’s very nice, but if you are a hope for everyone just like the Sun, that’s excellent!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Life is a tale, told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing
William Shakespeare
Nothing in his life Became him like the leaving it.
William Shakespeare
There's a divinity that shapes our ends,Rough-hew them how we will.
William Shakespeare
Really now: If you can't get me my newspaper on time, how can you expect me to refrain from killing people?
Jeff Lindsay
What have you done for science today? Stop doing things for God! He doesn't need anything. Do something for science, for God's sake!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Most people live for love and admiration. But it is by love and admiration that one should live. If any love is shown us we should recognize that we are quite unworthy of it. Nobody is worthy to be loved... or if that phrase is a bitter one to bear, let us say that everyone is worthy of love, except him who thinks he is. Love is a sacrament that should be taken kneeling..
Oscar Wilde
The Sun after the rain is much beautiful than the Sun before the rain!
Mehmet Murat ildan
That...that was how I spent the day, just waiting, waiting, waiting...but waiting like a man running amok, senselessly, like an animal, with that headlong, direct persistance.
Stefan Zweig
I think no more than a week after I started writing I ran into the first block. It's hard to describe it in a way that will be understandable to anyone who is not a neurotic. I will try. All my life I have been haunted by the obsession that to desire a thing or to love a thing intensely is to place yourself in a vulnerable position, to be a possible, if not a probable, loser of what you most want. Let's leave it like that. That block has always been there and always will be, and my chance of getting, or achieving, anything that I long for will always be gravely reduced by the interminable existence of that block.
Tennessee Williams
When the reality looks extraordinarily unreal, you must know that you are in an extraordinarily beautiful place!
Mehmet Murat ildan
He who cannot do what he wants must make do with what he can.
Terence
SNAPE: Strange, isn't it? What comes from within. You need to run. I will keep them at bay for as long as I can.SCORPIUS: Thank you for being my light in the dar
Jack Thorne
To give yourself away keep yourself still,And you must live drawn by your own sweet skill.
William Shakespeare
He thought each memory recalled must do some violence to its origins. As in a party game. Say the word and pass it on. So be sparing. What you alter in the remembering has yet a reality,known or not.
Cormac McCarthy
If somebody asks you where you are going, tell him you are going to everywhere, because future is a path going to everywhere!
Mehmet Murat ildan
When a good man is hurt, all who would be called good must suffer with him.
Euripides
Hang there like a fruit, my soul, Till the tree die!-Posthumus LeonatusAct V, Scene V
William Shakespeare
The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.
J.M. Barrie
There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
It is not easy in this world for one person to understand the next one.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
As long as he deceived himself about the truth, he could blame fortune and have confidence in the future. Now the clouds of madness were closing round his mind.
Hermann Bahr
Beggar that I am I am even poor in thanks.
William Shakespeare
I've never been high. Writing is my drug of choice. You don't ever have to come down from that kind of high, I tell ya. And, best part is, it's free.
Christy Hall
He was always seeking for a meaning in life, and here it seemed to him that a meaning was offered; but it was obscure and vague . . . He saw what looked like the truth as by flashes of lightening on a dark, stormy night you might see a mountain range. He seemed to see that a man need not leave his life to chance, but that his will was powerful; he seemed to see that self-control might be as passionate and as active as the surrender to passion; he seemed to see that the inward life might be as manifold, as varied, as rich with experience, as the life of one who conquered realms and explored unknown lands.
W Somerset Maugham
Slight not what is near though aiming at what is far.
Euripides
You can’t keep messing me around like this. It’s been going on too long. I can’t take it anymore. I get sick every time you come around. Then I get sick when you leave. You’re like a disease to me.
Sam Shepard
When the reality is no different than a beautiful dream, stick tightly to that reality!
Mehmet Murat ildan
A society which devastates its homelands’ nature no more has the right to live in that territories!
Mehmet Murat ildan
I’ve known people that the world has thrown everything at to discourage them...to break their spirit. And yet something about them retains a dignity. They face life and don’t ask quarters.
Horton Foote
I turn back to the Archers, who don’t look like the same species as us. Do they even sweat, these people?
Denis Markell
Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow worldLike a Colossus, and we petty menWalk under his huge legs and peep aboutTo find ourselves dishonorable graves.Men at some time are masters of their fates.The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our starsBut in ourselves, that we are underlings.
William Shakespeare
There is no moral to my song,I praise no right, I blame no wrong;I tell of things that I have seen,I show the man that I have beenAs simply as a poet canWho knows himself poet and man.
Thomas MacDonagh
Well, I've known over thirty men who've found out how to cure consumption. Why do people go on dying of it, Colly? Devilment I suppose!
George Bernard Shaw
If you cannot solve your problem, change your position and look at your problem from a different angle with a different mind! Every problem has a hole where you can enter inside and destroy it!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Let me summarise our delicate position in this universe: Our every word can be our last word; our every look can be our last look! Our every moment can be our last moment! Are we happy about this fragile situation? No! Are we going to deceive ourselves with some childish stories, in other words with religion? No! Then what are we going to do? We will change this desperate situation, we will strike this chaotic universe with human mind, with high intelligence, in short with science! Humanity’s ultimate objective is to reshape this dangerous universe so that no threat will ever remain for our existence!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Except for two or three older writers, all modern literature seems to me not literature but some sort of handicraft, which exists only so as to be encouraged, though one is reluctant to use its products.
Anton Chekhov
Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing.
Oscar Wilde
It is a long road from conception to completion.
Molière
A prose that is altogether alive demands something of the reader that the ordinary novel reader is not prepared to give.
T.S Eliot
It seemed that hell could appear day or night, at any time, at any place, simply in response to one's thoughts or wishes. It seemed that we could summon it at our pleasure and that instantly it would appear.
Yukio Mishima
Sometimes I sits and thinks, and sometimes I just sits...
A.A. Milne
It is a foible of our human nature that when we have an extremely unpleasant experience, it gives us a peculiar satisfaction if it is “the biggest” of its disagreeable kind that has happened since the world began. During a heat wave, for instance, we are very pleased if the papers announce that it is “the highest temperature reached since the year 1881,” and we feel a little resentment towards the year 1881 for having gone us one better. Or if our ears are frozen till all the skin peels off, it fills us with a certain happiness to learn that “it was the hardest frost recorded since 1786.” It is just the same with wars. The war in progress is either the most righteous or the bloodiest, or the most successful, or the longest, since such and such a time; any superlative whatever always affords us the proud satisfaction of having been through something extraordinary and record-breaking.
Karel Čapek
Something whose connection with human experience we cannot grasp is bound to be frightening.
Kōbō Abe
There is always a certain peace in being what one is in being that completely.
Ugo Betti
Master, go on, and I will follow theeTo the last gasp with truth and loyalty.
William Shakespeare
It’s only when we can work with something that brings out our strengths that we’re of any real use.
Henning Mankell
Books and all forms of writing are terror to those who wish to suppress truth.
Wole Soyinka