Quotes by Playwrights - Page 130

To carry a light on Earth is to represent the Sun on earth!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Everything can always be better! To know this is a wit! But if you also know that everything can always be worse and that is wisdom! Wisdom is to see both the lights and the shadows!
Mehmet Murat ildan
A street full of shadows will teach you what life is much better than the street full of lights!
Mehmet Murat ildan
The best light which illuminates your path is your determination!
Mehmet Murat ildan
If you have a good light inside you, you will get a good light from outside!
Mehmet Murat ildan
If your headlight is broken, stop travelling in the darkness! Either you travel with the light or sit tight wherever you are!
Mehmet Murat ildan
You need a strong light for a tough journey? A light like the sun? Then you need a wise thinking!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Time and the bell have buried the day,The black cloud carries the sun away.Will the sunflower turn to us, will the clematisStray down, bend to us; tendril and sprayClutch and cling? ChillFingers of yew be curledDown on us? After the kingfisher's wingHas answered light to light, and is silent, the light is stillAt the still point of the turning world.
T.S Eliot
Never accept the situation where you have the light but sufficient only for yourself! You must have an abundant light so that you may give to others!
Mehmet Murat ildan
For too long I have played on the stage of lucidity, and I have lost. Now I need to accustom my eyes to the falling darkness. I need to contemplate the natural slumber of all things, which the light calls forth, yet also causes to tire. Life must begin in darkness. Its powers of germination lie hidden. Every day has its night, every light has its shadow.I cannot be asked to accept these shadows gladly. It is enough that I accept them.
Mihail Sebastian
There is always a beautiful light around the compassionate people: The shining light of goodness!
Mehmet Murat ildan
The windows of the houses - even if the house is ramshackle - are always beautiful because windows represent light!
Mehmet Murat ildan
There is a cosmic river flowing from the Sun to the Earth and to everywhere: The Sunlight, the holiest of the holy rivers! Enemy of Darkness is the best friend of existence! Touch the sunlight with a strong love because light itself made that love possible!
Mehmet Murat ildan
He who hides himself amongst the shadows deserves to live inside the dark shadows! Meet with the light to deserve the light!
Mehmet Murat ildan
There are two lights in this universe: The light and the Reason!
Mehmet Murat ildan
The most precious light is the one that visits you in your darkest hour!
Mehmet Murat ildan
All a hardliner has to do is to keep the door of his mind open! And then, the light will visit him! Only in light we can see the truths!
Mehmet Murat ildan
SNAPE: Strange, isn't it? What comes from within. You need to run. I will keep them at bay for as long as I can.SCORPIUS: Thank you for being my light in the dar
Jack Thorne
I turn away reluctant from your light,And stand irresolute, a mind undone,A silly, dazzled thing deprived of sightFrom having looked too long upon the sun.Then is my daily life a narrow roomIn which a little while, uncertainly,Surrounded by impenetrable gloom,Among familiar things grown strange to meMaking my way, I pause, and feel, and hark,Till I become accustomed to the dark.
Edna St. Vincent Millay
It is very possible that the majority of a nation can choose darkness! Such fool nations learn the beauty of light through the unbearable and inconceivable pains!
Mehmet Murat ildan
To give light to others, you must first take light from others!
Mehmet Murat ildan
In the dark that followed - Lucy said; "where I was born, the trees were always in the sun. And I left that place because it was intolerant of rain. Now, we are here in a place where there are no trees and there is only rain. And I intend to leave this place - because it is intolerant of light. Somewhere - there must be somewhere where darkness and light are reconciled. So I am starting a rumour, here and now, of yet another world. I don't know when it will present itself - I don't know where it will be. But - as with all those other worlds now past when it is ready, I intend to go there.
Timothy Findley
Freeze, freeze in the winter, if you really want to appreciate the summer! Walk, walk at the edge of the precipices, if you rightly want to learn the meaning of the safety! Switch the lights off, if you want to see the amazing beauty of the light!
Mehmet Murat ildan
* If you have a light, share it with people; if you have a darkness, share it with the Sun!
Mehmet Murat ildan
It requires no special talent to be a shadow; but to be a light, you need to be burning inwardly!
Mehmet Murat ildan
A man who refuses light will remain in the darkness even by the side of light!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Meditation is not to be on the surface of a thing or underneath it or above it, but it is to be in everywhere and to be in nowhere!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Meditation is mind’s vacation!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Simple things relieve eyes; simple things ease mind, simple things create meditation, simple things are simply miraculous!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Water is sagacious because it carries inside of itself the bottomless profundity of oceans, the cosmic looks of the clouds, subtle wits of the rivers, the inquisitive character of the rains and the silent meditation of the little lakes!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Meditation is to leave the noise and to meet with the silence.
Mehmet Murat ildan
No one answered. You could hear the light buzzing over us. I love that sound. It means school isn't working, that the teachers are losing the battle.
Adam Rapp
We really learn only from those books that we cannot judge. The author of a book that we were able to judge would have to learn from us.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The problem with all students, he said, is that they inevitably stop somewhere. They hear an idea and they hold on to it until it becomes dead; they want to flatter themselves that they know the truth. But true Zen never stops, never congeals into such truths. That is why everyone must constantly be pushed to the abyss, starting over and feeling their utter worthlessness as a student. Without suffering and doubts, the mind will come to rest on clichés and stay there, until the spirit dies as well. Not even enlightenment is enough. You must continually start over and challenge yourself.
Robert Greene
To honor and celebrate; or to balance and rectify, drawing what you want or need into your life. A third mode is less personal, involving a desire to know more deeply, involving a desire to know more deeply, to grow in knowledge and understanding of the cards--breathing in the wisdom of the tarot for its own sake and to learn more about life and the human condition.
Cait Johnson
I am alive to a usual objection to what is clearly part of my programme for the metier of poetry. The objection is that the doctrine requires a ridiculous amount of erudition (pedantry), a claim which can be rejected by appeal to the lives of poets in any pantheon. It will even be affirmed that much learning deadens or perverts poetic sensibility. While, however, we persist in believing that a poet ought to know as much as will not encroach upon his necessary receptivity and necessary laziness, it is not desirable to confine knowledge to whatever can be put into a useful shape for examinations, drawing rooms, or the still more pretentious modes of publicity. Some can absorb knowledge, the more tardy must sweat for it. Shakespeare acquired more essential history from Plutarch than most men could from the whole British Museum. What is to be insisted upon is that the poet must develop this consciousness throughout his career. What happens is a continual surrender of himself as he is at the moment to something which is more valuable. The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.
T.S Eliot
I think it is silly to be amateur about anything when one has an opportunity of learning.
Beverley Nichols
If you keep doing it everyday as regularly as soldiers go through drill, we shall see what will happend and find out if the experiment succeeds. You learn things by saying them over and over and thinking about them until they stay in your mind for ever, and I think it will be the same with Magic. If you keep calling it to come to you and help you, it will get to be part of you and it will stay and do things.
Frances Hodgson Burnett
You came to me to learn the Pleasure of Life and the Pleasure of Art. Perhaps I am chosen to teach you something much more wonderful, the meaning of Sorrow and its beauty.
Oscar Wilde
Whate'er I read to her. I'll plead for youAs for my patron, stand you so assured,As firmly as yourself were in still place - Yea, and perhaps with more successful wordsThan you, unless you were a scholar, sir.O this learning, what a thing it is!
William Shakespeare
A little learning is a dangerous thing, but we must take that risk because a little is as much as our biggest heads can hold.
George Bernard Shaw
You learned something right? Make it part of your life right away! You heard something clever? Internalize it instantly! You heard something beautiful? Add it to your life philosophy at once!
Mehmet Murat ildan
When you leave a port, ask yourself two questions: What mark you have made on that port and what have you learned from that port?
Mehmet Murat ildan
What can you learn from a statue? You can learn to stay calm whatever happens!
Mehmet Murat ildan
You can only learn through failure, and what ye learn is the importance ay preparation.
Irvine Welsh
It is always in season for old men to learn.
Aeschylus
In my school, he thought, they learn bitterness and frustration and how to grow old.
Graham Greene
Imitation is not just the sincerest form of flattery - it's the sincerest form of learning.
George Bernard Shaw
Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.
Oscar Wilde
A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
The more one suffered and lived, the more one had known of joy and grief, the deeper the response must be if an artist were great enough to summon it.
Rachel Field
When I began to wait to live I really began to wait to die.
William Saroyan
Do we ever get what we really want? Do we ever achieve what our powers have ostensibly equipped us for? No: everything works by contraries.
Nikolai Gogol
As Sidda joined Vivi in staring out into the darkness of the fields, where hundreds of sunflowers grew, she thought: I will never fully know my mother, any more than I will ever know my father or Connor, or myself. I have been missing the point. The point is not knowing another person, or learning to love another person. The point is simply this: how tender can we bear to be? What good manners can we show as we welcome ourselves and others into our hearts?
Rebecca Wells
Time unlived grows old Like unworn robes in a locked chest.
Oktay Rifat
He accepted the deformity which had made life so hard for him; he knew that it had warped his character, but no he saw also that by reason of it he had acquired that power of introspection which had given him so much delight. Without it he would never have had his keen appreciation of beauty, his passion for art and literature, and his interest in the varied spectacle of life. […] Then he saw that normal was the rarest thing in the world. Everyone had some defect of body or of mind […] The only reasonable thing was to accept the good of men and be patient with their faults.
W Somerset Maugham
We look back on our life as a thing of broken pieces, because our mistakes and failures are always the first to strike us, and outweigh in our imagination what we have accomplished and attained.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
To let a sad thought or a bad one get into your mind is as dangerous as letting a scarlet fever germ get into your body. If you let it stay there after it has got in you may never get over it as long as you live.
Frances Hodgson Burnett
And, certainly to him Life itself was the first, the greatest, of the arts, and for it all the other arts seemed to be but a preparation.
Oscar Wilde
All I want now is to look at life.
Oscar Wilde