Quotes by Playwrights - Page 135

Man will be free only when he frees both himself and all other creatures!
Mehmet Murat ildan
And yet sometimes it seems to me I am there, among the incriminated scenes, tottering under the attributes peculiar to the lords of creation ... Yes, more than once I almost took myself for the other, all but suffered after his fashion, the space of an instant.
Samuel Beckett
The world is ruled only by consideration of advantages.
Friedrich von Schiller
Thought's a luxury. Do you think the peasant sits and thinks of God and Democracy when he gets inside his mud hut at night?
Graham Greene
This is a tale of woe. This is a tale of sorrow. A love denied, a love restored, to live beyond tomorrow. Lest we think silence is the place to hide a heavy heart, remember, to love and be loved is life itself without which we are nought.
Abi Morgan
I understand that in our work - doesn't matter whether it's acting or writing - what's important isn't fame or glamour, none of the things I used to dream about, it's the ability to endure.
Anton Chekhov
This whole life is an art of knowing when to sit and when to stand up!
Mehmet Murat ildan
...and here, in this if I always lose myself.
Luigi Pirandello
Sexual abuse of children now presents society with the ultimate crisis of patriarchy, when children refuse to protect their fathers by keeping secrets.
Beatrix Campbell
And tonight Mary could taste bitterness going down like a nut, settling in her stomach. It planted itself, put down roots, and began to grow, nourished on her dark blood.
Emma Donoghue
We were born of risen apes, not fallen angels, and the apes were armed killers besides. And so what shall we wonder at? Our murders and massacres and missiles, and our irreconcilable regiments?
Robert Ardrey
Why can't I solve this problem by killing someone? she though petulantly, then comforted herself with the mantra that had kept her going in prison: "Soon all the humans will be dead," she said, droning in the time-honored fashion of gurus everywhere. "And then Opal will be loved."And even if I'm not loved, she thought, at least all the humans will be dead.
Eoin Colfer
In the corrupted currents of this worldOffence's gilded hand may shove by justice,And oft 'tis seen the wicked prize itselfBuys out the law. . . (Claudius, from Hamlet, Act 3, scene 3)
William Shakespeare
Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.
J.M. Barrie
If you suppress grief too much it can well redouble.
Molière
You're so earnest about morality that I hate to think how essentially immoral you must be underneath.
Sinclair Lewis
Sin sorpresas, aunque sean disagredables, nadie estaria dispuesto a vivir.
David Olguín
When you visualized a man or a woman carefully, you could always begin to feel pity . . . that was a quality God's image carried with it . . . when you saw the lines at the corners of the eyes, the shape of the mouth, how the hair grew, it was impossible to hate. Hate was just a failure of imagination.
Graham Greene
Ego is a drum and the drum has to make a noise to tell everyone that that it is there!
Mehmet Murat ildan
A wrong path may take you to the right wisdom!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Lucky nation is the one who has at least one great progressive revolutionary man in its history!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Don’t be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.
Bertolt Brecht
My doctor says I must not have any serious conversation after seven [o'clock]. It makes me talk in my sleep.
Oscar Wilde
The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.
Oscar Wilde
Man needs only a small patch of earth for his pleasures, and a smaller one still to rest beneath.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
If it is necessary sometimes to lie to others, it is always despicable to lie to oneself.
W Somerset Maugham
The Sun has no chance to be nobody and that is the punishment for being a sun! If you can be nobody just like a humble tree in a silent forest, you can find the happiness too!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Freedom is what we do with what is done to us.
Jean-Paul Sartre
I'll read enoughWhen I do see the very book indeedWhere all my sins are writ, and that's myself.Give me that glass and therein will I read.No deeper wrinkles yet? Hath sorrow struckSo many blows upon this face of mineAnd made no deeper wounds?O flattering glass,Like to my followers in prosperityThou dost beguile me!
William Shakespeare
There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
William Shakespeare
Man is said to be a reasoning animal. I do not know why he has not been defined as an affective or feeling animal. Perhaps that which differentiates him from other animals is feeling rather than reason. More often I have seen a cat reason than laugh or weep. Perhaps it weeps or laughs inwardly — but then perhaps, also inwardly, the crab resolves equations of the second degree.
Miguel de Unamuno
nothing that is worth knowing can be taught
Oscar Wilde
A man who sits under a tree and dreams makes more journey than a man who goes around the world without dreaming!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Hell people talk about hell, love people talk about love!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Don't be taken in when they pat you paternally on the shoulder and say that there's no inequality worth speaking of and no more reason for fighting. Because if you believe them they will be completely in charge in their marble homes and granite banks from which they rob the people of the world under the pretense of bringing them culture. Watch out, for as soon as it pleases them they'll send you out to protect their gold in wars whose weapons rapidly developed by servile scientists will become more and more deadly until they can with a flick of the finger tear a million of you into pieces.
Peter Weiss
Motormouth: So this is love? Well, love is a gift and a lot of people forget that. So you two better brace yourselves for a whole lot of ugly coming your way on a never ending train of stupid.Penny: So you met my mom?
Mark O'Donnell
Nurse Duckett found Yossarian wonderful and was already trying to change him.
Joseph Heller
Next to music, beer was best.
Carson McCullers
When I think of New York City, I think of all the girls, the Jewish girls, the Italian girls, the Irish, Polack, Chinese, German, Negro, Spanish, Russian girls, all on parade in the city. I don't know whether it's something special with me or whether every man in the city walks around with the same feeling inside him, but I feel as though I'm at a picnic in this city. I like to sit near the women in the theaters, the famous beauties who've taken six hours to get ready and look it. And the young girls at the football games, with the red cheeks, and when the warm weather comes, the girls in their summer dresses . . .
Irwin Shaw
But beauty, real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins. Intellect is in itself a mode of exaggeration, and destroys the harmony of any face. The moment one sits down to think, one becomes all nose, or all forehead, or something horrid. Look at the successful men in any of the learned professions. How perfectly hideous they are! Except, of course, in the Church. But then in the Church they don't think.
Oscar Wilde
An unfree mind is just like a windmill inside the bell jar!
Mehmet Murat ildan
When the mechanic has to mend a watch he lets the wheels run out; but the living watchworks of the state have to be repaired while they act, and a wheel has to be exchanged for another during its revolutions.
Friedrich Schiller
Love,JamieP.S. I can't believe you're dying. Please don't die.
Adam Rapp
Cherish your solitude. Take trains by yourself to places you have never been. Sleep out alone under the stars. Learn how to drive a stick shift. Go so far away that you stop being afraid of not coming back. Say no when you don’t want to do something. Say yes if your instincts are strong, even if everyone around you disagrees. Decide whether you want to be liked or admired. Decide if fitting in is more important than finding out what you’re doing here. Believe in kissing.
Eve Ensler
take your best orgasm, multiply the feeling by twenty, and you're still fuckin miles off the pace
Irvine Welsh
I asked the question for the best reason possible, for the only reason, indeed, that excuses anyone for asking any question - simple curiosity.
Oscar Wilde
Joe has sense enough to knowHe is a god.So many gods don't know.
Langston Hughes
Holy shit," somebody muttered in the dark."A virgin," sputtered another."I didn't know they still made them.""He just did.
Larry Kramer
...if He made us, He must know He is to blame when He has made us weak or evil. And He must understand why we have been so made, and when we throw ourselves into the dust before Him, and pray for help and pardon, surely--surely He will lend an ear!
Frances Hodgson Burnett
- because just by hating it’s possible to be purified from love, just with the sword, with the fire..
Daphne du Maurier
I can say little more than I have studied, and that question's out of my part.
William Shakespeare
every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter. The sitter is merely the accident, the occasion. It is not he who is revealed by the painter; it is rather the painter who, on the coloured canvas, reveals himself.
Oscar Wilde
A man who can be happy with the crumbs of light in the dark corridors of life infinitely deserves the brightest Sun!
Mehmet Murat ildan
You spoke your words as though you denied the very existence of the shadows or of evil. Think, now: where would your good be if there were no evil and what would the world look like without shadow?
Mikhail Bulgakov
Love is the only energy I’ve ever used as a writer. I’ve never written out of anger, although anger has informed love.
Athol Fugard
If Makar Denisych was just a clerk or a junior manager, then no one would have dared talk to him in such a condescending, casual tone, but he is a 'writer', and a talentless mediocrity! returned a bad story to Makar recently is know to the whole district and has provoked mockery, long conversations and indignation, while Makar Denisych is already being referred to as old Makarka. tIf someone does not write the way required, they never try to explain what is wrong, but just say:t'That bastard has gone and written another load of rubbish!
Anton Chekhov
I don't have a life of my own. I've put myself and my life at the service of the people. If necessity dictates I run, I run.. go to jail, I go to jail.. die, I die.My private aspirations are exactly the general aspirations of the people.
Yusuf Idris
Umbrella is comfort, rain is life! You must often leave comfort to touch the life!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Never have I been frightened by circumstances. A little warmth, a little bread, my little ones with me, and life begins, happiness begins.
Ludmilla Petrushevskaya
If one good deed in all my life I did, I do repent it from my very soul.
William Shakespeare