Quotes by Playwrights - Page 136

Names are powerful and are prophecies of the future. The name you are called is a sign of what you are and what you would become.
Jude Idada
Then I defy you, stars!
William Shakespeare
The moment you think that your destiny is predetermined, you become a miserable loser! Trust your own power so that you can shape your own destiny!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Do you want to give a special gift in the New Year to someone you love? Then let him or her realize this: We are the main shepherd of our fate, we are the main designer of our destiny!
Mehmet Murat ildan
In the quantum multiverse, every choice, every decision you've ever and never made exists in an unimaginably vast ensemble of parallel universes.
Nick Payne
Tram’s road is predetermined, but not yours! You are not a tram, you can choose your path
Mehmet Murat ildan
All the doors you ignored or refused to enter represents your uncreated fates!
Mehmet Murat ildan
We make our own destiny.
Susan Hill
Predetermined fate is the slogan of the incapable people; with better ideas, you can always have a better fate!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Your ideas create your fate; you change your ideas, you change your fate!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Alas, poor men, their destiny. When all goes well a shadow will overthrow it. If it be unkind one stroke of a wet sponge wipes all the picture out; and that is far the most unhappy thing of all. -Cassandra
Aeschylus
A predetermined destiny does not exist; when a man is born, his life is open to all the possibilities; in other words, potentially, man has infinitely different destinies! All destinies are his probable destiny!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Faustina is a great work of the Creator. She has nothing of what you call brains; she doesn't need them for her destiny... It is to be glorious for a few years: not to outlive some dull husband and live on his money till she is eighty, going to lectures and comparing the attractions of winter tours that offer the romance of the Caribbean.
Robertson Davies
If it is nothingness that awaits us, let us make an injustice of it, let us fight against destiny, even without hope of victory.
Miguel de Unamuno
Annushka has already bought the sunflower oil, and has not only bought it, but has already spilled it.
Mikhail Bulgakov
What is the destiny of man, but to fill up the measure of his sufferings, and to drink his allotted cup of bitterness?
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
No one can tell you what your life is goin to be, can they?No. It's never like what you expected.Quijada nodded. If people knew the story of their lives how many would then elect to live them?
Cormac McCarthy
A man seeks his own destiny and no other, said the judge. Wil or nill. Any man who could discover his own fate and elect therefore some opposite course could only come at last to that selfsame reckoning at the same appointed time, for each man's destiny is as large as the world he inhabits and contains within it all opposites as well. The desert upon which so many have been broken is vast and calls for largeness of heart but it is also ultimately empty. It is hard, it is barren. Its very nature is stone.
Cormac McCarthy
My whole life has been pledged to this meeting with you...
Alexander Pushkin
It's no use crying over spilt milk, because all of the forces of the universe were bent on spilling it.
W Somerset Maugham
It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.
William Shakespeare
Be slow of tongue and quick of eye.
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
If you want to work on your acting, work on yourself.
Anton Chekhov
...but doth not the person who expends vast sums in the furniture of his house or the ornaments of his person, who consumes much time and employs great pains in dressing himself, or who thinks himself paid for self-denial, labour, or even villany, by a title or a ribbon, sacrifice as much to vanity as the poor wit who is desirous to read you his poem or his play?
Henry Fielding
Refrain to-night;And that shall lend a kind of easinessTo the next abstinence, the next more easy;For use almost can change the stamp of nature,And either master the devil or throw him outWith wondrous potency.
William Shakespeare
Time is a cruel thief to rob us of our former selves. We lose as much to life as we do to death.
Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey
I don't want to earn my living, I want to live.
Oscar Wilde
If science can eliminate sleep, we will have more time to live and no time for the dreams. But living is superior to the dream because it is real!
Mehmet Murat ildan
But she didn't want to recall things. She wanted to live things — or as a compromise, relive rather than reminisce.
Betty Smith
The way we are living,timorous or bold,will have been our life.
Seamus Heaney
I Drink. I Burn. I Dream.And Sometimes, I tell Stories !
Hélène Cixous
For who ever lived totally as they wanted to; who ever, if they have time to think about it, dies wholly satisfied? And those who remain know it.
Fay Weldon
May we live impossibly,” Sebby said when he opened his eyes. “Against all odds. May people look at us and wonder how such jewels can sparkle in the sad desert of the world. May we live the impossible life.
Kate Scelsa
Then since we mortal lovers are,Ask not how long our love may last;But while it does, let us take careEach minute be with pleasure passed:Were it not madness to denyTo live because we're sure to die?
George Etherege
This the kind of world, if you don’t die, you just keep on growing up and living through everything that comes.
J. California Cooper
The tender spring upon thy tempting lipShows thee unripe; yet mayst thou well be tasted:Make use of time, let not advantage slip;Beauty within itself should not be wasted:Fair flowers that are not gather'd in their primeRot and consume themselves in little time.
William Shakespeare
When we do something, we may not think about why we are doing what we are doing, says Oehler, for then it would suddenly be totally impossible for us to do anything.
Thomas Bernhard
There is nothing more dreadful than having to go walking on one’s own on Monday.
Thomas Bernhard
Incontinent the void. The zenith. Evening again. When not night it will be evening. Death again of deathless day. On one hand embers. On the other ashes. Day without end won and lost. Unseen.
Samuel Beckett
The whole process of life is a process of deterioration in which everything—and this is the most cruel law—continually gets worse.
Thomas Bernhard
Today’s living people are much more important than tomorrow’s yet unborn people! We need to help the people of today before helping the people of tomorrow! We cannot make our plans so as to save the people of distant future by ignoring today’s people!
Mehmet Murat ildan
With a cluther of limbs and organs, all that is needed to live again, to hold out a little time, I'll call that living, I'll say it's me, I'll get standing, I'll stop thinking, I'll be too busy, getting standing, staying standing, stirring about, holding out, getting to tomorrow, tomorrow week, that will be ample, a week will be ample, a week in spring, that puts the jizz in you.
Samuel Beckett
We understand the ordinary business of living, We know how to work the machine
T.S Eliot
Year after year of dirty snow and bitter winds… houses and whole districts of people who aren’t really unhappy, but worse, who are neither happy nor unhappy; people who are ugly because they’re neither ugly nor beautiful; creatures that are dismally neutral, who long without longings as though they’re unconscious, unconsciously suffering from being alive.
Eugène Ionesco
The first and last schoolmaster of life is living and committing oneself unreservedly and dangerously to living; to men who know this an Aristotle and a Plato have much to say; but those who have imposed cautions on themselves and petrified themselves in a system of ideas, them the masters themselves will lead into error
Thornton Wilder
Or one meaning of here is “in this world, in this life, on earth. In this place or position, indicating the presence of,” or in other words, I am here. It also means to hand something to somebody—Here you are. Here, he said to her. Here both recognizes and demands recognition. I see you, or here, he said to her. In order for something to be handed over a hand must extend and a hand must receive. We must both be here in this world in this life in this place indicating the presence of.
Claudia Rankine
We all live in the sublime. Where else can we live? That is the only place of life.
Maurice Maeterlinck
I LOVE living, I have some problems with my LIFE, but living is the best thing they've come up with so far.
Neil Simon
As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.
George Bernard Shaw
Growing up is never straight forward.There are moments when everything is fine, and other moments where you realize that there are certain memories that you'll never get back, and certain people that are going to change, and the hardest part is knowing thatthere's nothing you can do except watch them.
Alden Nowlan
I'm a man of simple tastes. I'm always satisfied with the best.
Oscar Wilde
Between the wish and the thing the world lies waiting.
Cormac McCarthy
Before the beginning of yearsThere came to the making of manTime, with a gift of tears;Grief, with a glass that ran;Pleasure, with pain for leaven;Summer, with flowers that fell;Remembrance, fallen from heaven,And madness risen from hell;Strength without hands to smite;Love that endures for a breath;Night, the shadow of light,And Life, the shadow of death.
Algernon Charles Swinburne
She did not suspect that the Abbess was even there hovering about the house, herself estimating the stresses and watching for the moment when a burden harms and not strengthens.
Thornton Wilder
He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity.
Ben Jonson
Too much work will create too much motivation for the strong, and a big collapse for the weak! Strength gets great strength from the challenges!
Mehmet Murat ildan
When a nation which has long groaned under the intolerable yoke of a tyrant rises at last and throws off its chains, do you call that weakness? The man who, to rescue his house from the flames, finds his physical strength redoubled, so that he lifts burdens with ease which in the absence of excitement he could scarcely move; he who under the rage of an insult attacks and puts to flight half a score of his enemies,—are such persons to be called weak? My good friend, if resistance be strength, how can the highest degree of resistance be a weakness?
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Conscience is a coward, and those faults it has not strength enough to prevent it seldom has justice enough to accuse.
Oliver Goldsmith
Only through the group, I realised — through sharing the suffering of the group — could the body reach that height of existence that the individual alone could never attain. And for the body to reach that level at which the divine might be glimpsed, a dissolution of individuality was necessary. The tragic quality of the group was also necessary, the quality that constantly raised the group out of the abandon and torpor into which it was prone to lapse, leading it to an ever-mounting shared suffering and so to death, which was the ultimate suffering. The group must be open to death — which meant, of course, that it must be a community of warriors.
Yukio Mishima
Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
Jean-Paul Sartre