Quotes by Playwrights - Page 123

We also want to leave our own area behind, our domestic world so well regulated day to day; we are drawn by the desire no longer to be at home and therefore no longer to be ourselves. We want to interrupt a life where we merely exist, in order to live more.
Stefan Zweig
Everything is just how I imagined it, yet everything is new
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
He who claims to have travelled in the hard roads, let him show his shoes for the proof!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Your body travels sometimes to somewhere but your mind travels every time to everywhere!
Mehmet Murat ildan
the sense of a small courageous community barely existing above the desert of trees, hemmed in by a sun too fierce to work under and a darkness filled with evil spirits - love was an arm round the neck, a cramped embrace in the smoke, wealth a little pile of palm-nuts, old age sores and leprosy, religion a few stones in the centre of the village where the dead chiefs lay, a grove of trees where the rice birds, like yellow and green canaries, built their nests, a man in a mask with raffia skirts dancing at burials. This never varied, only their kindness to strangers, the extent of their poverty and the immediacy of their terrors. Their laughter and their happiness seemed the most courageous things in nature
Graham Greene
Rocinante was of more value for a true traveller than a jet plane. Jet planes were for business men.
Graham Greene
A journey is a gesture inscribed in space, it vanishes even as it's made. You go from one place to another place, and on to somewhere else again, and already behind you there is no trace that you were ever there.
Damon Galgut
I had been afraid of the primitive, had wanted it broken gently, but here it came on us in a breath, as we stumbled up through the dung and the cramped and stinking huts to our lampless sleeping place among the rats. It was the worst one need fear, and it was bearable because it was inescapable.
Graham Greene
If travel were so inspiring and informing a business...then the wisest men in the world would be deck hands on tramp steamers, Pullman porters, and Mormon missionaries.
Sinclair Lewis
Anyone who needs more than one suitcase is a tourist, not a traveler
Ira Levin
It sounds so far away and different. I like different places. I like any places that isn't here.
Edna Ferber
The journey not the arrival matters.
T.S Eliot
Travelling, one accepts everything; indignation stays at home. One looks, one listens, one is roused to enthusiasm by the most dreadful things because they are new. Good travellers are heartless.
Elias Canetti
They spoke less and less between them until at last they were silent altogether as is often the way with travelers approaching the end of a journey.
Cormac McCarthy
Only it seems to me that once in your life before you die you ought to see a country where they don't talk in English and don't even want to.
Thornton Wilder
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
For a man, no more beautiful wish has ever found yet than wishing him a life full of kindness!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Beating drums while doing a kindness to someone is a very ugly show of ego!
Mehmet Murat ildan
If you can be Kind in the Land of Rudeness, you can be King in the Land of Kindness.
Mehmet Murat ildan
The truth, he thought, has never been of any real value to any human being- it is a symbol for mathematicians and philosophers to pursue. I human relations kindness and lies are worth a thousand truths.
Graham Greene
...her very kindness was cruel because it was founded not on love but on reason...
W Somerset Maugham
Nothing in the world is so strong as a kind heart
Frances Hodgson Burnett
But there are times," said Charlotte, "when it is necessary and an act of friendship to write nothing rather than not to write.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Do you not think, Mrs. Givings, that snow is always kind? Because it has to fall slowly, to meet the ground slowly, or the eyelash slowly— And things that meet each other slowly are kind.
Sarah Ruhl
Everything passed, and what trace of its passage remained? It seemed to Kitty that they were all, the human race, like the drops of water in that river and they flowed on, each so close to the other and yet so far apart, a nameless flood, to the sea. When all things lasted so short a time and nothing mattered very much, it seemed pitiful that men, attaching an absurd importance to trivial objects, should make themselves and one another so unhappy.
W Somerset Maugham
What he sensed more than anything else was kindness – a kindness of a human and immediate sort. It was surprising how very radical this simple emotion could be.
Damon Galgut
Elegance and kindness is an elegant and kind reply to the rudeness of this world!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Kindness is your best gift you can ever give to anyone in any time!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Every kindness we have done is a monument built in our name in the heart of God!
Mehmet Murat ildan
To you, whoever you are, when I am gone — remember to be kind tonight to some lonely person. For me.
Tennessee Williams
He is as full of valor as of kindness. Princely in both.
William Shakespeare
Now is a time for, dare I say it, kindness. I thought being extremely smart would take care of it. But I see I have been found out.
Margaret Edson
I respect kindness in human beings first of all, and kindness to animals. I don't respect the law; I have a total irreverence for anything connected with society except that which makes the roads safer, the beer stronger, the food cheaper and the old men and old women warmer in the winter and happier in the summer.
Brendan Behan
I must be cruel only to be kind;Thus bad begins, and worse remains behind.
William Shakespeare
Always try to be a little kinder than is necessary.
J.M. Barrie
The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the grandest intention.
Oscar Wilde
Avoid the man without compassion, because he ain’t a man surely!
Mehmet Murat ildan
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
Three of the ten principles governing the City of Joy are (a) tell the truth, (b) stop waiting to be rescued, and (c) give away what you want the most.
Eve Ensler
Man without compassion is the coldest thing ever in this universe!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Much less than a man, a little bit more than a jackal! This is the person without compassion!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Believe not the existence of an emotion nobler than the compassion!
Mehmet Murat ildan
They learned no compassion from their own anguish. Thus their suffering was wasted.
Betty Smith
And Sir, it is no little thing to make mine eyes to sweat compassion.
William Shakespeare
Why, we are just the same - I am only a little girl like you. It's just an accident that I am not you, and you are not me!
Frances Hodgson Burnett
He was no stranger to compassion: his heart was open to many good impulses, though his rank often prevented their manifestation.
Nikolai Gogol
When peoples cry for you, they can straighten out your soul.
Langston Hughes
It is only when you suffer that you truly understand.
Jules Verne
We are nothing without compassion for others and for all other beings!
Mehmet Murat ildan
I could not turn away from anyone Like you, a stranger, or refuse to help him. I know well, being mortal, that my claimUpon the future is no more than yours.
Sophocles
Look at every creature from the window of compassion with the eyes of love!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Look every creature from the window of compassion with the eyes of love!
Mehmet Murat ildan
I beg you, alight and join your sorrow with mine: misfortune wanders everywhere, and settles now upon one and now upon another.
Aeschylus
Jesus was a suicide, if you ask me.
Marsha Norman
God is fucking stealing souls again!
Stephen Adly Guirgis
Jesus to Pilate:"The trouble is," the bound man went on, not stopping by anyone, "that you are too closed off and have definitely lost faith in people. You must agree, one can't place all one's affection in a dog. Your life is impoverished, Hegemon.
Mikhail Bulgakov
He [Jesus] had a terrible temper, you know, undoubtedly inherited from His Father.
Robertson Davies
Gentle Jesus, meek and mild' is a snivelling modern invention, with no warrant in the gospels.
George Bernard Shaw
And now tell me, why is it that you use me words "good people" all the time? Do you call everyone that, or what?- Everyone, - the prisoner replied. - There are no evil people in the world.(- А теперь скажи мне, что это ты все время употребляешь слова добрыелюди"? Ты всех, что ли, так называешь?- Всех, - ответил арестант, - злых людей нет на свете.)
Mikhail Bulgakov
You want me to lie for you?" Aidan asked, watching
Andrea Hairston