Quotes by Playwrights - Page 93

But I must finally realize that I am subject to these sudden transformations. The thing is that I rarely think; a crowd of small metamorphoses accumulate in me without my noticing it, and then, one fine day, a veritable revolution takes place.
Jean-Paul Sartre
Nobody sees anybody truly but all through the flaws of their own egos. That is the way we all see each other in
Tennessee Williams
A martyrdom is always the design of God, for His love of men, to warn them and to lead them, to bring them back to His ways. It is never the design of man; for the true martyr is he who has become the instrument of God, who has lost his will in the will of God, and who no longer desires anything for himself, not even the glory of being a martyr.
T.S Eliot
Love is holy.
William Shakespeare
If a man is not aware of the existence of the moon, what can the moon do for him except continue sending its lights upon him?
Mehmet Murat ildan
Whatever necessity lays upon thee endure whatever she commands do.
Johann von Goethe
Spaniards and Americans are not like Europeans, they are not like Orientals, they have something in common, that is they do not need religion or mysticism not to believe in reality as all the world knows it, not even when they see it.
Gertrude Stein
If you have nothing but compassion, you are still very wealthy; if you have everything but compassion, you are still very poor!
Mehmet Murat ildan
All concerns of men go wrong when they wish to cure evil with evil.
Sophocles
What if the door you love is locked and cannot be open? The answer is very simple: Find another door!
Mehmet Murat ildan
We should tell ourselves, once and for all, that it is the first duty of the soul to become as happy, complete, independent, and great as lies in its power. Herein is no egoism, or pride. To become effectually generous and sincerely humble there must be within us a confident, tranquil, and clear comprehension of all that we owe to ourselves.
Maurice Maeterlinck
A sad tale's best for winter: I have one of sprites and goblins.
William Shakespeare
You may give up your big dream and that is very hard! If necessary, give it up but then create a new one! Never live without big dreams because they will keep you alive in life!
Mehmet Murat ildan
I'll tell you what I want. Magic! Yes, yes, magic! I try to give that to people. I misinterpret things to them. I don't tell the truth. I tell what ought to be truth. And if that is sinful, then let me be damned for it! - Don't turn the light on!
Tennessee Williams
All man must live in Machu Picchu for some time! Over there, you will be closer to the universe and you will realise how trivial you are in this chaotic cosmos. Science is the only power which will make you bigger and significant in this universe!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Tale-bearers are as bad as the tale-makers.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
To end the greatest work designed,A thousand hands need but one mind.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Put no limit to your thinking or you can never go far and never find the truth!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Pity me that the heart is slow to learnWhat the swift mind beholds at every turn.
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Every idea travels to somewhere but some ideas travel to everywhere, the great ideas!
Mehmet Murat ildan
No human being can really understand another and no one can arrange another's happiness.
Graham Greene
Chance, you've gone past something you couldn't afford to go past; your time, your youth, you've passed it. It's all you had and you've had it.
Tennessee Williams
My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither but just to enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate.
Thornton Wilder
When one loves somebody everything is clear - where to go what to do - it all takes care of itself and one doesn't have to ask anybody about anything.
Maxim Gorky
Till you see only yourself behind yourself as your greatest supporter, you will never feel that you are a very strong person!
Mehmet Murat ildan
With faith, you may get stuck in a very big lie and may lose the truth forever; but with doubt, you can always reach the truth!
Mehmet Murat ildan
I love thee I love but thee With a love that shall not die Till the sun grows cold And the stars grow old.
William Shakespeare
Most friendship is feigning, most loving mere folly.
William Shakespeare
Because of poverty and ignorance, not everyman living on earth lives in the same epoch!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Write if you will: but write about the world as it is and as you think it ought to be and must be—if there is to be a world. Write about all the things that men have written about since the beginning of writing and talking—but write to a point. Work hard at it, care about it. Write about our people: tell their story. You have something glorious to draw on begging for attention. Don’t pass it up. Don’t pass it up. Use it. Good luck to you. The Nation needs your gifts. Lorraine Hansberry speech, “To Be Young, Gifted, and Black,” given to Readers Digest/United Negro College Fund creative writing contest winners, NYC, May 1, 1964.
Lorraine Hansberry
It's necessary to use suffering. Otherwise, one is used by it.
Natalie Clifford Barney
RUTH: If you take the glass…I’ll take you.
Harold Pinter
To die, to sleep - To sleep, perchance to dream - ay, there's the rub,For in this sleep of death what dreams may come...
William Shakespeare
There is a pleasure sure In being mad which none but madmen know!
John Dryden
O what will she do, a soul bitten into with wrong?
Euripides
Where are you? In the past or in the future? It doesn't matter because if you are not in today you are in the wrong place!
Mehmet Murat ildan
The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.
William Shakespeare
Every time a war ends, under a beautiful sun, on the face of a crying child; I see a rainbow of hope over the innocent teardrops.
Mehmet Murat ildan
All things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams.
Elias Canetti
Sometimes, to remain silent is to lie, since silence can be interpreted as assent.
Miguel de Unamuno
When things don't change, their sameness becomes an accretion. That is why all society puts on flesh. Succumbs to the cubicles and begins to fill them.
Tennessee Williams
But 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? Or our treaties whatever they may be worth; our symphonies however seldom they may be played; our peaceful acres, however frequently they may be converted into battlefields; our dreams however rarely they may be accomplished. The miracle of man is not how far he has sunk but how magnificently he has risen. We are known among the stars by our poems, not our corpses.
Robert Ardrey
A little more and I would have fallen into the mirror trap. I avoided it, but only to fall into the window trap: with nothing to do, my arms dangling, I go over to the window.
Jean-Paul Sartre
They say a basis in fact underlies most legends. They say it all the time, all those Wise Elders in all those old horror films, the high priests, the scientists, the gypsy fortune tellers. On this single issue they agree unanimously.
Robert Dunbar
A day without laugh is a day without life.
Mehmet Murat ildan
Solitude is not a port to drop anchor, but only a port to rest for a while!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Cottontail knocked on the big front door and was admitted to the Palace. There she stood in her funny country clothes but none of the other four Easter Bunnies laughed, for they were wise and kind and knew better.
DuBose Heyward
When your situation seems pathless and hopeless, this happens just because your mind is not talented enough to find a hope and to create a path!
Mehmet Murat ildan
In a really good thrift store you feel like you're in a room with all of these stories, and it's up to you to go and find the stories that you want to bring home with you. And then when you wear the clothes, they help you tell a new story, but they're bringing that old part with them and with you and you're benefiting from that in a way that you can't even really understand.
Kate Scelsa
The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
What! because we are poor Shall we be vicious?
John Webster
...no woman can love a weak man hard enough to make him strong.
Pearl Cleage
It's fun telling you tall Texas tales. You always look like a little girl who's hearing Cinderella for the first time.
Edna Ferber
My first advantage: I have everything. My second advantage: this is just another island. My third advantage: I am bigger than it all.
Ann-Marie MacDonald
Haemon: No city is property of a single man.Creon: But custom gives possession to the ruler.Haemon: You'd rule a desert beautifully alone.
Sophocles
A police photograph is like a passport photograph: the intelligence which casts a veil over the crude common shape is never recorded by the cheap lens. No one can deny the contours of the flesh, the shape of nose and mouth, and yet we protest, This isn't me.
Graham Greene
The world was my oyster but I used the wrong fork.
Oscar Wilde
I have seen or heard of no other man whom destiny treated with such enmity as it did Philoktetes
Sophocles
I can't talk, or I will throw up!
William Shakespeare
Where there is little thinking, there is big shaping of the people! ~
Mehmet Murat ildan