Quotes by Playwrights - Page 87

When did your namechange from a proper nounto a charm?Its three vowelslike jewelson the thread of my breath.Its consonantsbrushing my mouthlike a kiss.I love your name.I say it again and againin this summer rain.I see it,discreet in the alphabet,like a wish.I pray itinto the nighttill its letters are light.I hear your namerhyming, rhyming,rhyming with everything."Name
Carol Ann Duffy
A society where everyone is following his own unique path has a much better chance to find the truth than the society where everyone is following some known cliché paths!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Similar souls wander in the similar places! They may not know each other, but often they touch the same winds, they step on the same leaves, their looks are lost in the same horizons!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Let us drink wine to remember what kind of mystical beauties life offers us and to comprehend what sort of magic potions existence has!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Do you think we make sad things into songs in order to hold on to the sadness or to banish it—I think it is to banish the sadness. So then if you write a happy song, is it not sadder than a sad song because by making it you have banished your own happiness into a song?
Sarah Ruhl
Coincidence is God's way of performing miracles anonymously.
Sophy Burnham
Possession is eleven points in the law.
Colley Cibber
In every fall, clever man discovers the secrets of further rising!
Mehmet Murat ildan
You’ll be all right. You’re strong. I know you’ll be okay because I like you and you can’t like someone who doesn’t like themself. The people I fear for are the ones who I don’t like because they hate themselves so much they won’t let anyone else like them either. But I do like you. I’ll miss you. And I know you’ll be okay.
Sarah Kane
fights you on patriotic principles he robs you on business principles he enslaves you on imperial principles.
George Bernard Shaw
Nobody sees anybody truly but all through the flaws of their own egos.
Tennessee Williams
Crabbed age and youth cannot live together Youth is full of pleasure age is full of care Youth like summer morn age like winter weather Youth like summer brave age like winter bare. Youth is full sport age's breath is short Youth is nimble age is lame Youth is hot and bold age is weak and cold Youth is wild age is tame. Age I do abhor thee youth I do adore thee.
William Shakespeare
One hasn't become a writer until one has distilled writing intoa habit, and that habit has been forced into an obsession.Writing has to be an obsession. It has to be something as organic,physiological and psychological as speaking or sleeping or eating.
Niyi Osundare
I dread the loss of her I've never touched love keeps me a slave in a cage of tears I gnaw my tongue with which to her I can never speak I miss a woman who was never born I kiss a woman across the years that say we shall never meet Everything passes Everything perishes Everything palls my thought walks away with a killing smile leaving discordant anxiety which roars in my soul No hope No hope No hope No hope No hope No hope No hope
Sarah Kane
The world admires wealth and velocity—these are the things for which everyone strives. Railroads, the post, steamboats, and all possible modes of communication are the means by which the world overeducates itself and freezes itself in mediocrity.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
But I see nothing miraculous about it. Nothing makes one as healthy as happiness, and there is no greater happiness than making someone else happy.
Stefan Zweig
The advantage of having an artistic tradition is that the younger artist could see an organic link between the real life of one's country and its art work which is a sublimation of that life.
Kuo Pao Kun
I prefer a loose woman to a selfish one and a wanton to a fool.
W Somerset Maugham
DUMBLEDORE: No. I was protecting you. I did not want to hurt you .
Jack Thorne
...And we left the lightfor the night of the street
Pierre Albert-Birot
Your most precious asset is your right thinking!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Modern American marriage is like a wire fence. The woman's the wire -the posts are the husband's.
Langdon Mitchell
I do not think there is a woman in whom the roots of passion shoot deeper than in me.
Edna St. Vincent Millay
It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.
William Shakespeare
O friends, no more these sounds!Let us sing more cheerful songs, more full of joy!
Friedrich Schiller
And would it have been worth it, after all,Would it have been worth while,After the sunsets and the dooryards and the sprinkled streets, After the novels, after the teacups, after the skirts that trail along the floor - And this, and so much more? -
T.S Eliot
I go to the movies because – I like adventure. Adventure is something I don’t have much of at work, so I go to the movies.
Tennessee Williams
Everybody has a right to their own troubles.
Thornton Wilder
In memory everything seems to happen to music.
Tennessee Williams
No one's ever really ready for a troll.
Eoin Colfer
What people call insincerity is simply a method by which we can multiply our personalities.
Oscar Wilde
What's done at night belongs to the night. In the daytime you don't talk about it.
Jean-Paul Sartre
It came to Mary now that her mother had been right, after all; Mary had been born for this. In sixteen years she'd shot along the shortest route she could find between life and death, as the crow flew.
Emma Donoghue
Be sure that head and heart were laidIn wisdom down, content to die.Be sure he faced the Starless SkyUnduped, unmurmuring, unafraid.(“The Passing of Bierce”)
George Sterling
When the morning sun wakes up, the darkness in the valleys looks for a place to hide!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Death was the only absolute value in my world. Lose life and one would lose nothing again for ever. I envied those who could believe in a God and I distrusted them. I felt they were keeping their courage up with a fable of the changeless and the permanent. Death was far more certain than God, and with death there would be no longer the daily possibility of love dying. The nightmare of a future of boredom and indifference would lift. I could never have been a pacifist. To kill a man was surely to grant him an immeasurable benefit. Oh yes, people always, everywhere, loved their enemies. It was their friends they preserved for pain and vacuity.
Graham Greene
Betrayed and wronged in everything,I’ll flee this bitter world where vice is king,And seek some spot unpeopled and apartWhere I’ll be free to have an honest heart.
Molière
We are all failures- at least the best of us are.
J.M. Barrie
Even in the saddest moments of life, the happiness of simply being, the joy of just having existence must be remembered strongly!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Different people have different duties assigned to them by Nature Nature has given one the power or the desire to do this the other that. Each bird must sing with his own throat.
Henrik Ibsen
In childbirth grief begins.
Euripides
All we need to know about the storms is this: Storms are born, they live and they die! And they destroy anything wildly, just like we do in wars!
Mehmet Murat ildan
A Man Without Honoris Worse than Dead.
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
I knew that what I was seeking to discover was a thing I'd always known. That all courage was a form of constancy. That it was always himself that the coward abandoned first. After this all other betrayals came easily.
Cormac McCarthy
To love a person is to learn the song that is in their heart and to sing it to them when they have forgotten.
Arne Garborg
A man who could make so vile a pun would not scruple to pick a pocket.
John Dennis
When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.
W Somerset Maugham
To do the useful thing to say the courageous thing to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man's life.
T.S Eliot
They do not love, that do not show their love.
William Shakespeare
The key then to attaining this higher level of intelligence is to make our years of study qualitatively rich. We don't simply absorb information - we internalize it and make it our own by finding some way to put this knowledge to practical use.
Robert Greene
I didn't say yes. I can say no to anything I say vile, and I don't have to count the cost. But because you said yes, all that you can do, for all your crown and your trappings, and your guards—all that your can do is to have me killed.
Sophocles
The strongest men are the most alone.
Henrik Ibsen
The quarrels of lovers are the renewal of love.
Terence
All of us collect fortunes when we are children. A fortune of colors of lights and darkness of movement of tensions. Some of us have the fantastic chance to go back to his fortune when grown up.
Ingmar Bergman
Every man in the world is better than some one else. And not as good as some one else.
William Saroyan
Whom the gods love dies young
Menander
I have no spurTo prick the sides of my intent, but onlyVaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itselfAnd falls on the other.
William Shakespeare
It takes a lot of time to be a genius. You have to sit around so much, doing nothing, really doing nothing.
Gertrude Stein
Life is a very sad piece of buffoonery because we have ... the need to fool ourselves continuously by the spontaneous creation of a reality ... which from time to time reveals itself to be vain and illusory.
Luigi Pirandello
I seek the utmost pleasure and the least pain.
Plautus