Quotes by Playwrights - Page 43

I could reply. I could tell him that a metaphor is inadequate in the face of a bloodbath. That a Platonic inclination for dying doesn't balance out the serious decision to kill. That through the ages there has never been a great historical infamy committed for which there couldn't be found a symbol just as big, to justify it. That, in consequence, we would do well to pay attention to great certainties, to great invocations, to the great 'droughts' and 'rains'. That the temper of our most violent outbursts might benefit from a shade less enthusiasm.I could reply. But what good would it do? I have a simple, resigned, inexplicable sensation that everything that is happening is in the normal order of things and that I am awaiting a season that will come and pass -- because it has come and passed before.
Mihail Sebastian
OppressionNow dreamsAre not availableTo the dreamers,Nor songsTo the singers.In some landsDark nightAnd cold steelPrevail--But the dreamWill come back,And the songBreakIts jail.
Langston Hughes
I don't know about you, but I only have one life, and I don't want to spend it in a sewer of injustice.
Wallace Shawn
How close we can approach the land of happiness with the heavy shackles on our feet of injustice permeated deeply into every corner?
Mehmet Murat ildan
Hatred of oppression still distorts the features, Anger at injustice still makes voices raised and ugly. Oh we, who wished to lay for the foundations for peace and friendliness,Could never be friendly ourselves.
Bertolt Brecht
Only the honorable people resist the injustices! The rest - the honorless - are afraid of even their own shadows!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Justice is the very last thing of all wherewith the universe concerns itself. It is equilibrium that absorbs its attention; and what we term justice is truly nothing but this equilibrium transformed, as honey is nothing but a transformation of the sweetness found in the flower. Outside man there is no justice; within him injustice cannot be.
Maurice Maeterlinck
We are not wrong, perhaps, to be heedful of justice in the midst of a universe that heeds not at all; as the bee is not wrong to make honey in a world that itself can make none. But we are wrong to desire an external justice, since we know that it does not exist. Let that which is in us suffice. All is for ever being weighed and judged in our soul. It is we who shall judge ourselves; or rather, our happiness is our judge.
Maurice Maeterlinck
Mama stared at me not with sadness, but with pleading. She was thinner than I'd ever allowed myself to notice, looking more like a child than a woman. I wanted to believe she knew what was best for me. I wanted to believe she was like every other mother and that she loved me more than I loved her. I hoped, if I followed her wishes, I would finally make her happy.
Ami McKay
How may a mortal, face and defeat the Kraken
Beverley Cross
People see a Macbeth film. They imagine they have seen Macbeth, and don't want to see it again; so when your Mr. Hackett or somebody comes round to act the play, he finds the house empty. That is what has happened to dozens of good plays whose authors have allowed them to be filmed. It shall not happen to mine if I can help it.
George Bernard Shaw
There is not a passion so strongly rooted in the human heart as envy.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Princess, the great difference between people in this world is not between the rich and the poor or the good and the evil, the biggest of all differences in this world is between the ones that had or have the pleasure in love and those that haven't and hadn't any pleasure in love, but just watched it with envy, sick envy. The spectators and the performers.
Tennessee Williams
Crowds most envy the lonely man who walks confidently as if he is walking with the great crowds!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Some folks rail against other folks, because other folks have what some folks would be glad of.
Henry Fielding
The Number our envious Persons, confirmation our capability.
Oscar Wilde
There is no disappointment so numbing...as someone no better than you achieving more.
Joseph Heller
I know you're no worse than most men but I thought you were better. I never saw you as a man. I saw you as my father.
Arthur Miller
My grandfather used to wear a black hat and coat. You are my children. You are my jewels. We old ones invest our future in you.
Diane Samuels
Dad has shamelessly played the Mom card. Against which there is no defense.
Denis Markell
Because I miss them. Because I need them. Because I love them.
Rebecca Wells
I cannot choose one hundred best books because I have only written five
Oscar Wilde
Man is not only that which he conceives himself to be, but that which he wills himself to be...
Jean-Paul Sartre
The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves.
William Shakespeare
A challenge to us is a great joy to us! If you see an open door, there is no challenge there and therefore there is no joy! A door must be closed so that we can obtain the joy of trying to open it!
Mehmet Murat ildan
If you come across a high mountain on your way, thank to it, because a good challenge is a great chance for you to surpass yourself! Thank to it!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Whatever your problem is, if you may think it rightly, the solution will appear on the horizon like a shining sun!
Mehmet Murat ildan
This is an extra letter in the middle of the month because I'm rather lonely tonight. It's awfully stormy; the snow is beating against my tower. All the lights are out on the campus, but I drank black coffee and I can't go to sleep.I had a supper party this evening consisting of Sallie and Julia and Leonora Fenton - and sardines and toasted muffins and salad and fudge and coffee. Julia said she'd had a good time, but Sallie stayed to help wash the dishes.
Jean Webster
And what makes humans so sure that thinking is the most important activity in the universe?...I on the contrary have never forgotten that first I existed and then, with a lot of difficulty, I learned to think." (p. 31)
Sabina Berman
John F. Kennedy says: ‘Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.’ I suggest that forgive your enemies and forget their names too! Don’t leave any stone in your head; keep only the flowers, only the names of the good men!
Mehmet Murat ildan
If you have too many enemies, it means that you are either too good or too evil!
Mehmet Murat ildan
As a rule, however fine and deep a phrase may be, it only affects the indifferent, and cannot fully satisfy those who are happy or unhappy; that is why dumbness is most often the highest expression of happiness or unhappiness; lovers understand each other better when they are silent, and a fervent, passionate speech delivered by the grave only touches outsiders, while to the widow and children of the dead man it seems cold and trivial.
Anton Chekhov
In all nature there seemed to be a feeling of hopelessness and pain. The earth, like a ruined woman sitting alone in a dark room and trying not to think of the past, was brooding over memories of spring and summer and apathetically waiting for the inevitable winter. Wherever one looked, on all sides, nature seemed like a dark, infinitely deep, cold pit from which neither Kirilov nor Abogin nor the red half-moon could escape....
Anton Chekhov
Hate not your enemies; love thy rivals, for this is the only way to convert them into your friends and your partners!
Mehmet Murat ildan
A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies. I have not got one who is a fool.
Oscar Wilde
We can change people only by becoming their friends, not by becoming their enemies! Make friends with people so that you may be able to change them!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Meg and Belch only had eyes for each other. Not in the usual romantic sense.
Eoin Colfer
A man cannot be too careful in his choice of enemies. I have not got one who is a fool. They are all men of some intellectual power, and consequently they all appreciate me.
Oscar Wilde
I have no enemies. I dont permit such a thing.
Cormac McCarthy
Thou shalt not stir one foot to seek a foe.
William Shakespeare
This free will business is a bit terrifying anyway. It's almost pleasanter to obey, and make the most of it.
Ugo Betti
He sat a long time and he thought about his life and how little of it he could ever have foreseen and he wondered for all his will and all his intent how much of it was his doing.
Cormac McCarthy
We are living now.We shall not live long.No one should tell us we shall live again.This is our little while.This is our chance.
Susan Glaspell
Wheels have been set in motion, and they have their own pace, to which we are...condemned. Each move is dictated by the previous one - that is the meaning of order. If we start being arbitrary it'll just be a shambles: at least, let us hope so. Because if we happened, just happened to discover, or even suspect, that our spontaneity was part of their order, we'd know that we were lost. A Chinaman of the T'ang Dynasty - and, by which definition, a philosopher - dreamed he was a butterfly, and from that moment he was never quite sure that he was not a butterfly dreaming it was a Chinese philosopher. Envy him; his two-fold security.
Tom Stoppard
Intimacy with one person could do this-empty the world of friendships, give a distaste for women's kisses and their bright chatter, make the ordinary world a little unreal and very uninteresting.
Graham Greene
If people knew the sexual intimacy of each other, no one would greet each other on the street.
Nelson Rodrigues
I could deny it if I liked. I could deny anything if I liked.
Oscar Wilde
For nothing is so hard to hear as that which is half known, and evaded. One never denies so hotly as in denying to one's self what one fears is true, and one never resents so bitterly as in resenting that which one cannot say one has the right to resent.
Susan Glaspell
Flies purify the air, and plays--the morals.
Anton Chekhov
Eagle rises to the top of the precipice with its wings; man, to the top of the honour, with his morals!
Mehmet Murat ildan
My friends, I like them; my morals, I like them more!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Sometimes we punish our selves the most.
William Shakespeare
Intellectual generalities are always interesting, but generalities in morals mean absolutely nothing.
Oscar Wilde
As long as you stay as a good hearted person, you will keep the innocence in your face.
Mehmet Murat ildan
...there’s a great deal which I don’t understandin people. In a human being everything should be beautiful: the face, the clothes, the soul, the thoughts. . . .Often I see a beautiful face and clothes, so beautiful that my head gets giddy with rapture; but as for the soul and thoughts,my God! In a beautiful outside there’s sometimes hidden such a black soul that no whitening can rub it off...
Anton Chekhov
Sometimes we punish ourselves the most.
William Shakespeare
An innocent bird is not innocent from the insect’s point of view! Only man can attain the rank of innocence through becoming a peaceful vegetarian!
Mehmet Murat ildan
I don't know how to defend myself: surprised innocence cannot imagine being under suspicion.
Pierre Corneille
Innocence must die young if it isn't to kill the souls of men
Graham Greene
I want to get out of here means I want to be innocent.
Kathy Acker