Quotes by Playwrights - Page 61

It is winter time! Feed the birds! Teach your children to feed the birds! Request your neighbour to feed the birds! Encourage your friends to feed the birds!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Let us freely walk in the countryside, like a horse peacefully walking towards sunset without any particular purpose!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Everybody lives in this world, except lovers! They live in an isolated small place called ‘You and I’ planet!
Mehmet Murat ildan
No day is an ordinary day; all days are extraordinary, because life itself is extraordinary!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Life is the art of finding or building a bridge with a great determination every time you come across a precipice!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Biological death is only a mechanical problem, it can be solved and man can live millions of years! Do not believe in life after death! Seek for the life within the life! The medusa of Turritopsis nutricula is biologically immortal and this little creature is a big inspiration for us! He who thinks positively reaches his target!
Mehmet Murat ildan
For your shadow, you are his shadow!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Dogs are often happier than men simply because the simplest things are the greatest things for them!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Dogs are happy with few things because they have already observed man who is unhappy with many things!
Mehmet Murat ildan
I was used to heat but this place was so dry the trees were bribing the dogs.
Irvine Welsh
I don't belong to the masses, I've been against the masses all my life, and I'm not in favour of dogs.
Thomas Bernhard
The fear of dogs is deep and universal amongst all that are less than Man.
Lord Dunsany
Playing the game means treating your dogs like gentlemen, and your gentlemen like dogs.
Ted Tally
Why did dogs make one want to cry? There was something so quiet and hopeless about their sympathy. Jasper, knowing something was wrong, as dogs always do. Trunks being packed. Cars being brought to the door. Dogs standing with drooping tails, dejected eyes. Wandering back to their baskets in the hall when the sound of the car dies away.
Daphne du Maurier
If your friend goes to a far place, that far place comes close to you!
Mehmet Murat ildan
A friend's bitter words seem to us more poisonous than a serpent's tooth.
Mehmet Murat ildan
A friend or an enemy can tell me something about my subjective being, a casual lover can judge my body — the man I love judges my entire being. Every one of his caresses tells me how I am: attractive, desirable. Every one of his questions and answers tells me what I am: a person with whom he wants to enjoy himself, who interests him more than all the others he knows. By choosing me among all others, my love has made me unique; I alone in all the world am the one he loves, and no other. If I am lucky in love, the definitions become more precise from day to day; after each date I know even better than before what I want to know about myself. The others can say what they like about me; I don't have to believe a word of it. Only the one I love can tell me about myself. Since his definitions grow increasingly precise, my dependence on him also grows more acute as time goes on, but he is in the same position with regard to me. I tell him that I belong to him alone, that he can do with me what he likes, that I cannot live without him.
Esther Vilar
Philosophically speaking, shadows of people are friendlier than people themselves because they come together very easily!
Mehmet Murat ildan
One has a right to judge a man by the effect he has over his friends.
Oscar Wilde
Stealing isn't so easy, often it's hard work, otherwise we'd all be doing it.
Elfriede Jelinek
But such occasions of excellence became less and less frequent. As her technique became sounder, [her] sincerity became less necessary.
Thornton Wilder
What lies at the end of the life path? The answer is simple: Nothing lies over there! That’s why mankind must change the end of the road!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Silence and creativity are very close friends!
Mehmet Murat ildan
There are four seasons in a year: Winter, Spring, Summer and Colour!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Man is a tireless traveller wandering in the dark valleys of his past!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Every journey will take us to somewhere even if at the beginning it looks like taking us to nowhere!
Mehmet Murat ildan
If love and death did not exist, tears would not exist as well!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Tears have the value of gold on the scales of the human heart' and the weights do not ask whether it is found or stolen gold, or whether you had to sweat in the digging.
Ferenc Molnár
Oh, devil, devil!If that the earth could teem with woman’s tears,Each drop she falls would prove a crocodile.Out of my sight!
William Shakespeare
When a man in a forest thinks he is going forward in a straight line, in reality he is going in a circle, I did my best to go in a circle, hoping to go in a straight line.
Samuel Beckett
Life teaches us that human thought almost never walks hand in hand with logic, and it is usually counterproductive to raise the point.
Jeff Lindsay
It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls
Aristophanes
You don’t need a ball to play football; all you need is a strong wish! After then, you can use even a stone as a ball! For all other things you want to do, all you need is a strong wish!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Your most precious asset is your right thinking!
Mehmet Murat ildan
What binds a wife to her husband is neither magic, nor a priest, nor love! What makes this possible is only silver coins! A woman’s heart is like a candle, my friend. As long as the money wick keeps burning, her heart stays warm. But when the wick burns down, her love is extinguished!
Mehmet Murat ildan
A cock should always know his limits and never have his eyes on the big heights like an eagle!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Sometimes all a country needs is an entire collapse for a new beginning!
Mehmet Murat ildan
A tough life can be defeated only by the tougher person!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Before complaining about your burden of life, you must first try to see what other people's burden of life is!
Mehmet Murat ildan
The demands of the science, of the ethics and of the reason are superior to the demands of the people!
Mehmet Murat ildan
When the burden of life becomes heavier, when it starts crushing our shoulders with all its might, it is time to be stronger!
Mehmet Murat ildan
The Captain swallowed his capsules and lay down in the dark with pleasant anticipation. This quantity of the drug gave him a unique and voluptuous sensation; it was as though a great dark bird alighted on his chest, looked at him once with fierce, golden eyes, and stealthily enfolded him in his dark wings.
Carson McCullers
O God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains!" - Cassio (Act II, Scene iii)
William Shakespeare
Even as I'm shoveling up my hooter, I realize the sad truth. Coke bores me, It bores us all. We're jaded cunts, in a scene we hate, a city we hate, pretending that we're at the center of the universe, trashing ourselves with crap drugs to stave off the feeling that real life is happening somewhere else, aware that all we're doing is feeding that paranoia and disenchantment, yet somehow we're too apathetic to stop. Cause, sadly, there's nothing else of interest to stop for.
Irvine Welsh
But even Es and cocaine, over the years they blow holes in your brain, rob you of your memories, your past. Which is fair enough, convenient even.
Irvine Welsh
take your best orgasm, multiply the feeling by twenty, and you're still fuckin miles off the pace
Irvine Welsh
I've always thought that love was being foolish and stupid. It's about being on the edge and I like being on the edge. It's not divine madness like some people think, there's no such thing as divine madness, madness is just madness. Love is hallucinating without drugs.
Louis Nowra
I think if you were Satan and you were settin around tryin to think up somethin that would just bring the human race to its knees what you would probably come up with is narcotics.
Cormac McCarthy
The smell of opium is the least stupid smell in the world.
Jean Cocteau
It seemed to him that all his life he had followed the ideals that other people, by their words or their writings, had instilled into him, and never the desires of his own heart. Always his course had been swayed by what he thought he should do and never by what he wanted with his whole soul to do. […] He had lived always in the future, and the present always, always had slopped through his fingers. His ideals? He thought of his desire to make a design, intricate and beautiful, out of the myriad pattern, that in which a man was born, worked, married, had children, and died, was likewise the most perfect? It might be that to surrender to happiness was to accept defeat, but it was a defeat better than many victories.
W Somerset Maugham
The moments you feel to give up your life can create the best moments to grasp fully the meaning of your life!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Homeward bound I suddenly noticed before me my own shadow as I had seen the shadow of the other war behind the actual one. During all this time it has never budged from me, that irremovable shadow, it hovers over every thought of mine by day and by night; perhaps its dark outline lies on some pages of this book, too. But, after all, shadows themselves are born of light. And only he who has experienced dawn and dusk, war and peace, ascent and decline, only he has truly lived.
Stefan Zweig
If death ends all, if I have neither to hope for good to come nor to fear evil, I must ask myself what I am here for and how in these circumstances I must conduct myself. Now the answer to one of these questions is plain, but it is so unpalatable that most men will not face it. There is no reason for living and life has no meaning. We are here, inhabitants for a little while of a small planet, revolving around a minor star which is in turn one of unnumbered galaxies... The astronomer tells us.... this planet will eventually reach a condition when living things can no longer exist upon it and at long last the universe will attain that final state of equilibrium in which nothing more can happen. Aeons and aeons before this man will have disappeared. Is it possible to suppose that it will matter then that he ever existed? He will have been a chapter in the history of the universe as pointless as the chapter in which is written the life stories of the strange creatures that inhabited the primeval earth.
W Somerset Maugham
And I think a long time ago there were big stories. Stories so big you could live your whole life in them. The Powerful Hands of the Gods and Fate. The Journey to Enlightenment. The March of Socialism. But they all died or the world grew up or grew senile or forgot them, so now we're making up our own stories. Little stories. But we've each got one.
Mark Ravenhill
Aunt Esther: You think you supposed to know everything. Life is a mystery. Don't you know life is a mystery? I see you still trying to figure it out. It ain't all for you to know. It's all an adventure. That's all life is. But you got to trust that adventure.
August Wilson
Happiness does not exist, nor should it, and if there is any meaning or purpose in life, they are not in our peddling little happiness, but in something reasonable and grand. Do good!
Anton Chekhov
You think, because you have a purpose, Nature must have one. You might as well expect it to have fingers and toes because you do.
George Bernard Shaw
The secret to life is meaningless unless you discover it yourself.
W Somerset Maugham
She will outstrip all praise and make it halt behind her.
William Shakespeare
I am grateful, and would thank the Gods(if there were any to thank) that I have finally mastered this art of forgetting--of murdering the memory.
Caryl Phillips