Quotes by Playwrights - Page 43

The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.
T.S Eliot
A confused labyrinth of smoky starsentangles my hopes,which are nearly faded
Federico García Lorca
He waited for the black, terrible anger as though for some beast out of the night. But it did not come to him. His bowels seemed weighted with lead, and he walked slowly and lingered against fences and the cold, wet walls of buildings by the way. Descent into the depths until at last there was no further chasm below. He touched the solid bottom of despair and there took ease.
Carson McCullers
[Y]ou're young. Young takes care of everything.
Neil Simon
I myself am an absolute abyss.
Antonin Artaud
Thou whoreson zed! Thou unnecessary letter! My lord, if you will give me leave, I will tread this unbolted villain into mortar, and daub the wall of a jakes with him. *all cheer for Shakespearean insults*
William Shakespeare
None of us is ever satisfied with what we are.
Terence
Time is my estate: to Time I'm heir.
Johann von Goethe
Ever since I realized there waz someone callt/ a colored girl an evil woman a bitch or a nag/ i been tryin not to be that & leave bitterness/ in somebody else's cup...
Ntozake Shange
Only the dull don’t doubt!
Mehmet Murat ildan
The job wouldn't be just put the summer, but for a long time, as long as she could see ahead. Once they were used to the money coming in it would be impossible to do without again.
Carson McCullers
If you do not enter inside, what use the door to heaven can have?
Mehmet Murat ildan
When they find what they don't like , they destroy it. Because it scares them-and you girls would scare them as much as anything they've ever seen.' 'Why?' asked Isobel. 'Because . . . because of what they believe.
Gordon Dahlquist
Death ends a life, but it does not end a relationship, which struggles on in the survivor’s mind toward some final resolution, some clear meaning, which it perhaps never finds.
Robert Woodruff Anderson
...human beings dream of life everlasting. But most of them want it on earth and not in heaven.
Tennessee Williams
I like men to behave like men. I like them strong and childish.
Françoise Sagan
I would prefer even to fail with honor than win by cheating.
Sophocles
He walked on in silence, the solitary sound of his footsteps echoing in his head, as in a deserted street, at dawn. His solitude was so complete, beneath a lovely sky as mellow and serene as a good conscience, amid that busy throng, that he was amazed at his own existence; he must be somebody else's nightmare, and whoever it was would certainly awaken soon.
Jean-Paul Sartre
I think success has no rules but you can learn a great deal from failure.
Jean Kerr
While we ourselves are the living graves of murdered beasts, how can we expect any ideal conditions on this earth?
George Bernard Shaw
Anna Petrovna: Kolya, my dearest, stay at home.Ivanov: My love, my unhappy darling, I beg you, don't stop me going out in the evenings. It's cruel and unjust on my part, but let me commit that injustice. It's an agony for me at home. As soon as the sun disappears, my spirit begins to be weighed down by depression. What depression! Don't ask why. I myself don't know. I swear by God's truth I don't know. Here I'm in anguish, I go to the Lebedevs and there it's still worse; I return from there and here it's depression again, and so all night... Simply despair!
Anton Chekhov
Reaching the top of a high mountain is just a personal victory. But for a victory to be important for the society, it has to be useful for the humanity!
Mehmet Murat ildan
True hope is swift and flies with swallow's wings Kings it makes Gods and meaner creatures kings.
William Shakespeare
If you put a woman in a man's position she will be more efficient but no more kind.
Fay Weldon
The city is a cultural invention enforcing on the citizen knowledge of his own nature. And this we do not like. That we are aggressive beings easily given to violence that we get along together because we must more than because we want to and that the brotherhood of man is about as far from reality today as it was two thousand years ago that reason's realm is small that we never have been and never shall be created equal that if the human being is perfectible he has so far exhibited few symptoms - all are considerations of man from which space tends to protect us.
Robert Ardrey
I want to read so I can read the Koran read the signs in the street know the number of the bus I'm supposed to take when I one day leave this house.
Eve Ensler
Peole do think that if they avoid the truth it might change to something better before they have to hear it.
Marsha Norman
In Santiago, the capital of the kingdom of Chile, at the moment of the great earthquake of 1647 in which many thousands lost their lives, a young Spaniard called Jeronimo Rugera was standing beside one of the pillars in the prison to which he had been committed on a criminal charge, and he was about to hang himself.
Heinrich von Kleist
Englishmen never will be slaves they are free to do whatever the Government and public opinion allow them to do.
George Bernard Shaw
Not only try but try your best!
Mehmet Murat ildan
A warm house is the best New Year present for every child!
Mehmet Murat ildan
The truth is that creative activity is one that involves the entire self - our emotions, our levels of energy, our characters, and our minds.
Robert Greene
From the point of view of the playwright then the essence of a tragedy or even of a serious play is the spiritual awakening or regeneration of his hero.
Maxwell Anderson
Then he just knelt in the ashes. He raised his face to the paling day. Are you there? he whispered. Will I see you at the last? Have you a neck by which to throttle you? Have you a heart? Damn you eternally have you a soul? Oh God, he whispered, Oh God.
Cormac McCarthy
Animals are locked in a perpetual present. They can learn from recent events, but they are easily distracted by what is in front of their eyes. Slowly, over a great period of time, our ancestors overcame this basic animal weakness. By looking long enough at any object and refusing to be distracted—even for a few seconds—they could momentarily detach themselves from their immediate surroundings. In this way they could notice patterns, make generalizations, and think ahead. They had the mental distance to think and reflect, even on the smallest scale.These early humans evolved the ability to detach and think as their primary advantage in the struggle to avoid predators and find food. It connected them to a reality other animals could not access. Thinking on this level was the single greatest turning point in all of evolution—the emergence of the conscious, reasoning mind.
Robert Greene
drill one hole after another into [language] until that which lurks behind, be it something or nothing, starts seeping through – I cannot imagine a higher goal for today’s writer.
Samuel Beckett
The dead boy in his arms hung with his head back and those partly opened eyes beheld nothing at all out of that passing landscape of street or wall or paling sky or the figures of the children who stood blessing themselves in the gray light. This man and his burden passed on forever out of that nameless crossroads and the women stepped once more into the street and the children followed and all continued on to their appointed places which as some believe were chosen long ago even to the beginning of the world.
Cormac McCarthy
If London is a watercolor, New York is an oil painting.
Peter Shaffer
Woe to him who would ascribe something like reason to Chance and make a religion of surrendering to it.
Johann von Goethe
True hope is swift, and flies with swallow's wings.
William Shakespeare
Suit the action to the word, theWord to the action.
William Shakespeare
Love comforteth like sunshine after rain.
William Shakespeare
A Tibetan proverb says that it is better to live for one day as a tiger than to live for a thousand years as a sheep. Well, I think the opposite, because the most important thing is to exist! Living sheep is superior to dead tiger!
Mehmet Murat ildan
There’s no stronger bulwark of sound conservatism than the evangelical church, and no better place to make friends who’ll help you to gain your rightful place in the community than in your own church-home!
Sinclair Lewis
I believe cats to be spirits come to earth. A cat, I am sure, could walk on a cloud without coming through.
Jules Verne
For any kind of problem, we must first undoubtedly believe that we can absolutely solve it! Then, the solution will come; it is our determination and our utter belief on this matter that shall bring the solution!
Mehmet Murat ildan
May be you have already reached your target, but if you don’t know this, you will move away from your target!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Time is a great manager: it arranges things well.
Pierre Corneille
The reason that you are blessed in excess with anything is so that you can give it away to someone else in need.
Dee Dee M. Scott
Buy a Bible!Your guide to eternal life!
Jerome Lawrence
When you want to be alone, even few people around you will seem like a tremendous crowd to you!
Mehmet Murat ildan
To get matured, you must have an education in the School of Solitude!
Mehmet Murat ildan
-"-A book takes me a year to write. It's too hard work for a revenge."-"If you knew how little you had to revenge...".
Graham Greene
Jim Reston: And of course when that moment came--no words came to my mouth, and I shook his hand. Because if you've spent that long hating a man--in the end--a kind of relationship develops. An intimacy. Biographer and subject. Assassin and target.
Peter Morgan
Murder most foul as in the best it is But this most foul strange and unnatural.
William Shakespeare
Journalism, look you, is the religion of modern society.
Honoré de Balzac
She did not care very much for other little girls, but if she had plenty of books she could console herself.
Frances Hodgson Burnett
People in America, they're getting dumber, they're getting less able to analyze something and think critically, and pick apart the underlying elements. And more and more ready to make a snap judgment regarding something at face value, which is too bad.
William Missouri Downs
Poetry the eldest sister of all arts and parent of most.
William Congreve
This ferry was taken over by the Yumas and operated for them by a man named Callaghan, but within days it was burned and Callaghan's headless body floated anonymously downriver, a vulture standing between the shoulderblades in clerical black, silent rider to the sea.
Cormac McCarthy