Quotes by Playwrights - Page 70

Man is by instinct a lover, a hunter, a fighter.
Tennessee Williams
Every lighthouse knows that when the giant waves come, no one will help! And when you know that no one will help you, you fight more seriously!
Mehmet Murat ildan
I will have thee, as our rarer monsters are, painted upon a pole,and underwrit: "Here you may see the tyrant, Macbeth
William Shakespeare
Concha would cry when she found out I was dead, she should have no taste for life for months afterward. But I was still the one who was going to die. I thought of her soft, beautiful eyes. when she looked at me something passed her to me. But I knew it was over: if she looked at me now the look would stay in her eyes, it wouldn't reach me. I was alone
Jean-Paul Sartre
Death was the only absolute value in my world. Lose life and one would lose nothing again for ever. I envied those who could believe in a God and I distrusted them. I felt they were keeping their courage up with a fable of the changeless and the permanent. Death was far more certain than God, and with death there would be no longer the daily possibility of love dying. The nightmare of a future of boredom and indifference would lift. I could never have been a pacifist. To kill a man was surely to grant him an immeasurable benefit. Oh yes, people always, everywhere, loved their enemies. It was their friends they preserved for pain and vacuity.
Graham Greene
Opium makes you quick-witted - perhaps only because it calms the nerves and stills the emotions. Nothing, not even death, seems so important.
Graham Greene
They say that when a man is going to drown, when he finally gives up the struggle - it's sort of blissful, for a moment. And then he drowns.
John Hodge
We defy augury. There is special providence inthe fall of a sparrow. If it be now, 'tis not to come; if it be not tocome, it will be now; if it be not now, yet it will come—thereadiness is all. Since no man, of aught he leaves, knows what is'tto leave betimes, let be. (Hamlet 5.2.217-224)
William Shakespeare
Whether I resolve to fire, earth, water, air, Or all the elements by scruples, I know not, Nor greatly care. - Shoot. Shoot!Of all deaths, the violent death is best;For from ourselves it steals ourselves so fast,The pain, once apprehended, is quite past.
John Webster
More are men's ends marked than their lives before.The setting sun, the music at the close,As the last taste of sweets, is sweetest last,Writ in remembrance more than things long past.
William Shakespeare
An African who loses the ability to die with dignity is a lost man.
Henning Mankell
My father, my father, and dost thou not hearThe words that the Erl-King now breathes in mine ear?'Be calm, dearest child, 'tis thy fancy deceives;Tis the sad wind that sighs through the withering leaves.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Death: When next we meet, the hour will strike for you and your friends.Antonius Block: And will you reveal your secrets?Death: I have no secrets.Antonius Block: So do you know nothing?Death: I am unknowing.
Ingmar Bergman
On my strand, lovely flowers their blossoms unfold,My mother shall grace thee with garments of gold.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
As Ossie Jones crept out of his body and into the mist, his heart murmured till it was silent.
Biyi Bandele-Thomas
Do not underrate others, do not underrate yourself, and do not underrate anything! Do not overrate others, do not overrate yourself, and do not overrate anything!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Storms are good friends because they light up the way to wisdom!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Refuse to seek for the road to paradise, because every beautiful place is already a paradise!
Mehmet Murat ildan
In every different house, the same things are spoken, the same lies are said, the same dreams are dreamed!
Mehmet Murat ildan
A well educated man with an independent mind is a type of man liked by no government!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Every right quote is a golden stair to enlightenment!
Mehmet Murat ildan
To die, to sleep - To sleep, perchance to dream - ay, there's the rub,For in this sleep of death what dreams may come...
William Shakespeare
My kingdom not for a horse, but for a good piece of advice!
Mehmet Murat ildan
If a moneyed man had a “corny mind”, a flatterer would immediately start chasing him like a hungry hen!
Mehmet Murat ildan
A man without money is like a windmill left without the wind, don’t you ever forget this!
Mehmet Murat ildan
In a conservative old town, say something new and be prepared for the stones!
Mehmet Murat ildan
If you are good at building bridges, you will never fall into the abyss!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Every long separation is a test: A test to see how powerful or how weak the will of reuniting is!
Mehmet Murat ildan
On the matters where your country is wrong, don’t take side with your country! Because it is always wrong to be on the side of wrong!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Don’t look for trouble, because troubles look for being found by those who look for them!
Mehmet Murat ildan
Every time you do goodness, you rise to the summit of humanity!
Mehmet Murat ildan
We cannot allow the badness to be triumphant on earth because we do not have a spare world!
Mehmet Murat ildan
This is a world of the hunters and the hunted, signorina. Tonight you are the prey and I am the hunter!
Mehmet Murat ildan
In these dangerous times, where it seems that the world is ripping apart at the seams, we all can learn how to survive from those who stare death squarely in the face every day and [we] should reach out to each other and bond as a community, rather than hide from the terrors of life at the end of the millennium.
Jonathan Larson
When the Stranger says: “What is the meaning of this city ?Do you huddle close together because you love each other?”What will you answer? “We all dwell togetherTo make money from each other”? or “This is a community”?Oh my soul, be prepared for the coming of the Stranger.Be prepared for him who knows how to ask questions.
T.S Eliot
The smallest indivisible human unit is two people, not one; one is a fiction. From such nets of souls societies, the social world, human life springs.
Tony Kushner
I wonder how it is that we are all connected despite our tremendous differences.
Sarah Ruhl
The secret angels of God are only as alive as the marble angels of Michelangelo!
Mehmet Murat ildan
You will find angels everywhere if you just stop looking for a supernatural being with feathered wings. When you see the sunshine through the clouds in a cold day, there the angel is! Anything good, anything useful, anything which gives you peace, they are all real angels! Look around you, you will see thousands of angels!
Mehmet Murat ildan
My angels are jellyfish,electric, nearly invisible,armed with poisoned harpoons.My archangels are yellow tang.They feed on sunlight.They speak through color.Anything in their paths turns blind.
Eric Gamalinda
The angels that dry our eyes bear the form and the features of all we have said and thought—above all, of what we have done, prior to the hour of misfortune.
Maurice Maeterlinck
Angels are bright still, though the brightest fell.
William Shakespeare
Neither did she realise yet that grief is a kind of glue, too, that the essence of humanity is this empathy, and that we fall together in that moment of tenderest perception when we see and feel each other's wounds and know another's sorrow like a brother of our own.
Niall Williams
If I got rid of my demons, I’d lose my angels.
Tennessee Williams
We live close together and we live far apart. We all go through the same things-it's all just a different kind of the same thing.
Susan Glaspell
LEAR: ...yet you see how this world goes.GLOS.: I see it feelingly.
William Shakespeare
Don't fool yourself. Talking about writing is not the same as actually doing it.
Christy Hall
Don’t have the veins bulging in your biro.
Seamus Heaney
Writing takes a pen, a sheet of paper and, to start with, just the shadow of an idea.
Françoise Sagan
He could not put down a word without suspecting that it might be the wrong one and that if he held back for another day the intermediate experience would provide the right one. There was no end to that, and Moon fearfully glimpsed himself as a pure writer who after a lifetime of absolutely no output whatsoever, would prepare on his deathbed the single sentence which was the distillation of everything he had saved up, and die before he was able to utter it.
Tom Stoppard
Anytime you write something, you go through so many phases. You go through the I’m a Fraud phase. You go through the I’ll Never Finish phase. And every once in a while you think, What if I actually have created what I set out to create, and it’s received as such?
Lin-Manuel Miranda
Literature flourishes best when it is half a trade and half an art.
William Inge
think young writers should get other degrees first, social sciences, arts degrees or even business degrees. What you learn is research skills, a necessity because a lot of writing is about trying to find information.
Irvine Welsh
There are three secrets to writing a novel. Unfortunately nobody knows what they are.
W Somerset Maugham
Everything is a tool - a boot, a sled, a dog - and a hand, an arm, even a man! If it breaks down you throw it away and you march on! It's brutal, yes! And it's ugly. But anything else is sentiment and it will kill you.
Ted Tally
Character? I should have thought it needed a good deal of character to throw up a career after half an hour’s meditation, because you saw in another way of living a more intense significance. And it required still more character never to regret the sudden step. I wondered if Abraham really had made a hash of life. Is to do what you most want, to live under the conditions that please you, in peace with yourself, to make a hash of life; and is it success to be an eminent surgeon with ten thousand a year and a beautiful wife? I suppose it depends on what meaning you attach to life, the claim which you acknowledge to society, and the claim of the individual. But again I held my tongue, for who am I to argue with a knight?
W Somerset Maugham
Once I make a decision, I stick to it.
Susan Nussbaum
The native hue of resolution is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought; and enterprises of great pitch and moment, With this regard, their currents turn awry, and lose the name of action.
William Shakespeare
Here come the lovers, full of joy and mirth.— Joy, gentle friends! joy and fresh days of love Accompany your hearts!
William Shakespeare
Come with me, ladies and gentlemen who are in any wise weary of London: come with me: and those that tire at all of the world we know: for we have new worlds here.
Lord Dunsany