Quotes by Playwrights - Page 194

The purpose of literature is to turn blood into ink.
T.S Eliot
There is only one day left, always starting over: It is given to us at dawn and taken away from us at dusk.
Jean-Paul Sartre
A photographer is like a cod, which produces a million eggs in order that one may reach maturity.
George Bernard Shaw
Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times.
Aeschylus
LAW 38Think As You Like But Behave Like OthersIf you make a show of going against the times, flaunting your unconventional ideas and unorthodox ways, people will think that you only want attention and that you look down upon them. They will find a way to punish you for making them feel inferior. It is far safer to blend in and nurture the common touch. Share your originality only with tolerant friends and those who are sure to appreciate your uniqueness.
Robert Greene
A man, though wise, should never be ashamed of learning more, and must unbend his mind.
Sophocles
And by and by Christopher Robin came to the end of things, and he was silent, and he sat there, looking out over the world, just wishing it wouldn't stop.
A.A. Milne
[BURR]I am the one thing in life I can control.
Lin-Manuel Miranda
Too much sanity may be madness — and maddest of all: to see life as it is, and not as it should be!
Dale Wasserman
Of all the wonders that I have heard,It seems to me most strange that men should fear;Seeing death, a necessary end,Will come when it will come.(Act II, Scene 2)
William Shakespeare
LAW 25Re-Create YourselfDo not accept the roles that society foists on you. Re-create yourself by forging a new identity, one that commands attention and never bores the audience. Be the master of your own image rather than letting others define if for you. Incorporate dramatic devices into your public gestures and actions – your power will be enhanced and your character will seem larger than life.
Robert Greene
A thousand words leave not the same deep impression as does a single deed.
Henrik Ibsen
The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and all time.
George Bernard Shaw
Yes, I have tricks in my pocket, I have things up my sleeve. But I am the opposite of a stage magician. He gives you illusion that has the appearance of truth. I give you truth in the pleasant disguise of illusion.
Tennessee Williams
Keep a little fire burning; however small, however hidden.
Cormac McCarthy
Life begins on the other side of despair.
Jean-Paul Sartre
Instead of committing suicide, people go to work.
Thomas Bernhard
If nature has made you for a giver, your hands are born open, and so is your heart; and though there may be times when your hands are empty, your heart is always full, and you can give things out of that—warm things, kind things, sweet things—help and comfort and laughter—and sometimes gay, kind laughter is the best help of all.
Frances Hodgson Burnett
She had become accustomed to being lonely. She was used to walking alone and to being considered 'different.' She did not suffer too much.
Betty Smith
Whatever you think, be sure it is what you think; whatever you want, be sure that is what you want; whatever you feel, be sure that is what you feel.
T.S Eliot
Written words can also sing.
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o
LAW 4 Always Say Less Than Necessary When you are trying to impress people with words, the more you say, the more common you appear, and the less in control. Even if you are saying something banal, it will seem original if you make it vague, open-ended, and sphinxlike. Powerful people impress and intimidate by saying less. The more you say, the more likely you are to say something foolish.
Robert Greene
Everything will turn out right, the world is built on that.
Mikhail Bulgakov
If you haven’t the strength to impose your own terms upon life, then you must accept the terms it offers you.
T.S Eliot
Try again. Fail again. Fail better.
Samuel Beckett
The tears of the world are a constant quantity. For each one who begins to weep somewhere else another stops. The same is true of the laugh.
Samuel Beckett
Only he who attempts the absurd is capable of achieving the impossible.
Miguel de Unamuno
Whatever comes," she said, "cannot alter one thing. If I am a princess in rags and tatters, I can be a princess inside. It would be easy to be a princess if I were dressed in cloth of gold, but it is a great deal more of a triumph to be one all the time when no one knows it.
Frances Hodgson Burnett
I never said it would be easy, I only said it would be worth it.
Mae West
My heart is warm with the friends I make,And better friends I'll not be knowing,Yet there isn't a train I wouldn't take,No matter where it's going.
Edna St. Vincent Millay
I said to my soul, be still and wait without hope, for hope would be hope for the wrong thing; wait without love, for love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith, but the faith and the love are all in the waiting. Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought: So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.
T.S Eliot
To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,To the last syllable of recorded time;And all our yesterdays have lighted foolsThe way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player,That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,And then is heard no more. It is a taleTold by an idiot, full of sound and fury,Signifying nothing.
William Shakespeare
Trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.
Molière
People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day.
A.A. Milne
You see things; you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?
George Bernard Shaw
Hell is empty and all the devils are here.
William Shakespeare
You can't stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes.
A.A. Milne
In my end is my beginning.
T.S Eliot
I never could bear the idea of anyone's expecting something from me. Italways made me want to do just the opposite.
Jean-Paul Sartre
Forget regret, or life is yours to miss. No other path, no other way, no day but today.
Jonathan Larson
In the morning there is meaning, in the evening there is feeling.
Gertrude Stein
He who moves not forward, goes backward.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
He could not construct for the child's pleasure the world he'd lost without constructing the loss as well and he thought perhaps the child had known this better than he.
Cormac McCarthy
Sin sorpresas, aunque sean disagredables, nadie estaria dispuesto a vivir.
David Olguín
Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.
George Bernard Shaw
Has it ever struck you that life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quick you hardly catch it going?
Tennessee Williams
Only the person who has experienced light and darkness, war and peace, rise and fall, only that person has truly experienced life.
Stefan Zweig
So since I'm still here livin',I guess I will live on.I could've died for love--But for livin' I was born.
Langston Hughes
If you would create something,you must be something.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim. It is, one is told, the unforgivable sin, but it is a sin the corrupt or evil man never practices. He always has hope. He never reaches the freezing-point of knowing absolute failure. Only the man of goodwill carries always in his heart this capacity for damnation.
Graham Greene
Be happy -- if you're not even happy, what's so good about surviving?
Tom Stoppard
I am not my body. My body is nothing without me.
Tom Stoppard
Out, out brief candle, life is but a walking shadow...a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
William Shakespeare
Until death it is all life
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Life is doubt,And faith without doubt is nothing but death.
Miguel de Unamuno
Life has no meaning, the moment you lose the illusion of being eternal.
Jean-Paul Sartre
The truth about the world, he said, is that anything is possible. Had you not seen it all from birth and thereby bled it of its strangeness it would appear to you for what it is, a hat trick in a medicine show, a fevered dream, a trance bepopulate with chimeras having neither analogue nor precedent, an itinerant carnival, a migratory tentshow whose ultimate destination after many a pitch in many a mudded field is unspeakable and calamitous beyond reckoning. The universe is no narrow thing and the order within it is not constrained by any latitude in its conception to repeat what exists in one part in any other part. Even in this world more things exist without our knowledge than with it and the order in creation which you see is that which you have put there, like a string in a maze, so that you shall not lose your way. For existence has its own order and that no man's mind can compass, that mind itself being but a fact among others.
Cormac McCarthy
In his face there came to be a brooding peace that is seen most often in the faces of the very sorrowful or the very wise. But still he wandered through the streets of the town, always silent and alone.
Carson McCullers
Toby Zeigler: There's literally no one in the world I don't hate right now.
Aaron Sorkin
She smiled and said with an ecstatic air: "It shines like a little diamond","What does?""This moment. It is round, it hangs in empty space like a little diamond; I am eternal.
Jean-Paul Sartre