Quotes by Playwrights - Page 65

All my life, he said, I been witness to people showin up where they was supposed to be at various times after they'd said they'd be there. I never heard one yet that didnt have a reason for it.Yessir.But there aint but one reason.Yessir.You know what it is?No sir.It's that their word's no good. That's the only reason there ever was or ever will be.
Cormac McCarthy
It isn't about being or not being dead, it's about what you leave behind
Martin McDonagh
A Man Without Honoris Worse than Dead.
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
He was a man, take him for all in all,I shall not look upon his like again.
William Shakespeare
But if it be a sin to covet honour,I am the most offending soul alive.
William Shakespeare
The most tragic thing in the world is a man of genius who is not a man of honor.
George Bernard Shaw
As I love the name of honour more than I fear death.
William Shakespeare
There is nothing like race, is there?
Oscar Wilde
It’s a fact: black people in this country die more easily, at all ages, across genders. Look at how young black men die, and how middle-aged black men drop dead, and how black women are ravaged by HIV/AIDS. The numbers graft to poverty but they also graph to stresses known and invisible. How did we come here, after all? Not with upturned chins and bright eyes but rather in chains, across a chasm. But what did we do? We built a nation, and we built its art.
Elizabeth Alexander
If much in the world were mystery the limits of that world were not, for it was without measure or bound and there were contained within it creatures more horrible yet and men of other colors and beings which no man has looked upon and yet not alien none of it more than were their own hearts alien in them, whatever wilderness contained there and whatever beasts.
Cormac McCarthy
In any case how many took the oath and are now licking the toes of the whiteman?No, you take an oath to confirm a choice already made. The decision to lay or not lay your life for the people lies in the heart. The oath is the water sprinkled on a man's head at baptism
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o
It was all her doing. She had cried wolf and the wolf had come.
Jason Hewitt
All malice, real and imagined, Ralegh's and the KIng's, will die upon the instant stroke of an axe. Be buried with him. His faith, then? Whatever remains will be parted. Some will go with the head and some with the headless body. Let them look for each other on Judgment Day. Perhaps on that day, in the haste of it, the bodies of traitors will have to settle for heads other than their own. Some inevitable mismatching of villians and rogues will take place. And one fine bony fellow will spy his skull upon another's body. Then another. And then maybe we shall be witness to the brawl and battle of the bones...
George Garrett
Our fathers fought bravely. But do you know the biggest weapon unleashed by the enemy against them? It was not the Maxim gun. It was division among them. Why? Because a people united in faith are stronger than the bomb
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o
You'll go far. How do I know? Because life is goosing you so hard you'll never stop climbing.
Robertson Davies
There is now, in my mouth, this sharp chain. And it never comes out.
Peter Shaffer
The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.
Jean-Paul Sartre
Life is difficult for an ant, for a cat, for an elephant, for us, for birds! Everyone needs a helping hand, if not today, tomorrow for sure! Keep your hands ready for helping! Keep yourself ready to be helped!
Mehmet Murat ildan
The man of courage thinks not of himself. Help the oppressed and put thy trust in God.
Friedrich Schiller
What we want to do is keep from hindering. If it's impossible to help, it's always possible to hinder.
William Saroyan
Two poor together are richer than one poor because they can somehow help each other!
Mehmet Murat ildan
I don't want to see him alone. He says things that annoy me. He gives me good advice.
Oscar Wilde
Old age saves us from the realization of a great many fears.
Graham Greene
I know what's wrong with me - I could never stand still for death! Which you've got to do by a certain age, or be ridiculous - you've got to stand there nobly and serene, and let death run his tape on your arms and around your belly and up your crotch until he's got you fitted for that black suit. And I can't, I won't!... So I'm left with wrestling with this anachronistic energy which God has charged me with and I will use it till the dirt is shoveled in my mouth! Life! Life! Fuck death and dying!
Arthur Miller
The years are going by us like huge birds, whom Doom and Destiny and the schemes of God have frightened up out of some old gray marsh.
Lord Dunsany
Il arrive un âge où ils ne sont plus séduisants, ni «en forme», comme on dit. Ils ne peuvent plus boire et ils pensent encore aux femmes; seulement ils sont obligés de les payer, d'accepter des quantités de petites compromissions pour échapper à leur solitude. Ils sont bernés, malheureux. C'est ce moment qu'ils choisissent pour devenir sentimentaux et exigeants… J'en ai vu beaucoup devenir ainsi des sortes d'épaves. "A time comes when they are no longer attractive or in good form. They can't drink any more, and they still hanker after women, only then they have to pay and make compromises in order to escape from their loneliness: they have become just figures of fun. They grow sentimental and hard to please. I haveseen many who have gone the same way.
Françoise Sagan
To what nadir of paltriness , pettiness, and squalor a man can sink! How could he change so! But is this really true to life? ---It is, it's all true to life, for anything can happen to a man. Your ardent youth of today would recoil in horror if you were to show him his own portrait as an old man. Once you set off on life's journey, once you take your leave of those gentle years of youth and enter the harsh, embittering years of manhood, remember to keep with you all your human emotions, do not leave them by the wayside, for you will not pick them up again! Grim and terrible is the old age which awaits us, and nothing does it give in return! The grave itself is more merciful than old age, for at least on the gravestone you will find written the words: 'Here a man lies buried!' but in the cold, unfeeling features of inhuman old age you can read nothing.
Nikolai Gogol
There comes a time in every Salome's life when she should no longer be dropping the last veil.
Harvey Fierstein
Sometimes I want to clean up my desk and go out and say, “Respect me; I’m a respectable grown-up!" and other times I just want to jump into a paper bag and shake and bake myself to death.
Wendy Wasserstein
You don't stop laughing when you grow old, you grow old when you stop laughing.
George Bernard Shaw
Wisdom comes with winters
Oscar Wilde
Due to many cosmic and worldly reasons, we will surely lose our planet one day! Till that dark day comes, let us give our profound affection to our beloved earth!
Mehmet Murat ildan
When something bad happens, this often opens the ways for some good things to happen!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Help your brother; and as regards helping, everyone is your brother!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Make walks in the nights to benefit from the education of silence!
Mehmet Murat ildan
If you live at the same time as great contemporaries, you become a flower getting rain live.
Mehmet Murat ildan
By just looking at the dark side of life, you cannot make it bright!
Mehmet Murat ildan
In life, there are many hills and valleys to pass and you cannot avoid them! The most important thing you need is to know this: You must pass them!
Mehmet Murat ildan
When the sky is clear, when the sea is calm and the full moon is rising, whatever you are doing, leave it; go to the seaside; sit and watch it! You will then reach the land where there is no thinking; the land of pure wisdom!
Mehmet Murat ildan
When a good change is flowing towards you, don’t stand like the river stones before it!
Mehmet Murat ildan
When the sleep appears like a ghost, all the reality disappears!
Mehmet Murat ildan
In the middle of tranquillity, think about the people inside the storms! In your happy times, remember the unhappy!
Mehmet Murat ildan
If a man is not aware of the existence of the moon, what can the moon do for him except continue sending its lights upon him?
Mehmet Murat ildan
A man who gets up very early creates a new day within the same day!
Mehmet Murat ildan
If a man gives you a harsh winter, give him back something unexpected: The warm spring!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Those who found nothing on the plains will find nothing on the summits of mountains!
Mehmet Murat ildan
If a fish feels sad when a fisherman’s boat is sinking, and that fish owns a priceless treasure: The compassion! Have compassion, even for your enemies!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Enter the streets that you have never been to for the sake of the concealed beauties and the hidden truths!
Mehmet Murat ildan
I think this man is a bit crazy, but aren’t we all a little crazy anyway?
Mehmet Murat ildan
What we call debt is a hump on our backs; it is an awkward load that crushes one; and loads are carried only by stupid animals, by camels, mules, and donkeys; the back of an intelligent person is flat!
Mehmet Murat ildan
How can you get giants out of a dwarf, my good chap? Can a thrush lay eagle’s egg? Can a dolphin give birth to a whale?
Mehmet Murat ildan
What you do when nobody is there is your true you!
Mehmet Murat ildan
For God must have more important universal matters to attend to than keeping himself busy with us, people! God is not interested in local matters!
Mehmet Murat ildan
When chasing a hare, you must have more than one greyhounds about you; when one of them has failed, my dear neighbour, you call to the next ‘Get it!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Between birth and death, neighbour, there is no business that is not risky; drinking water in a sitting position included! . . The gist of the matter is to do everything with fine tuning as an acrobat does when walking a tight rope, like a carpenter measuring everything meticulously!
Mehmet Murat ildan
We should extinguish not candles, but torches, my good neighbour; we should fell not shrubs but trees: we should kill one giant instead of ten dwarfs!.. When there is an ostentatious cock crowing all over the place, what is the use of killing one insignificant chick? In a war you have to kill the king first; thus you can put an end to the battle more quickly!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Like a butcher without a knife, a knight without a sword, and a farrier without a hammer, you cannot have a town without rules; if there were a town like that, a great big anarchy would reign there, just as in the realm of animals!
Mehmet Murat ildan
If the quality of the people got better as they aged, how good that would be, don’t you think so? Then we would put all the swindlers, crooks, usurers, robbers, hucksters, and gamblers we could find into a barrel and wait for some years, until their characters could leave an exquisite taste on all palates.
Mehmet Murat ildan
In the middle of the North Pole, anything hot gives the feeling like touching the hand of the God!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Find a place forgotten and make it feel that it is remembered! Find someone forgotten and make him feel that he is remembered!
Mehmet Murat ildan