Drama quotes

Discover poignant insights and moving narratives in our Drama collection, featuring powerful quotes that delve into the complexities of human relationships and the highs and lows of life's emotional rollercoaster.

Live your life how you want, but don’t confuse drama with happiness.

- Ron Swanson

Everybody is nothing until you love them.

- Tennessee Williams

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

You are the only young man that I know of who ignores the fact that the future becomes the present, the present the past, and the past turns into everlasting regret if you don't plan for it.

- Tennessee Williams

Isn't it the sweetest mockery to mock our enemies?

- Sophocles

Sex touches the heavens only when it simultaneously touches the gutter and the mud.

- George Jean Nathan

Ignorant men don't know what good they hold in their hands until they've flung it away.

- Sophocles

If we are to keep our democracy, there must be one commandment: Thou shalt not ration justice.

- Sophocles

How dreadful knowledge of the truth can be when there's no help in the truth.

- Sophocles

For the wretched one night is like a thousand; for someone faring well, death is just one more night.

- Sophocles

Enemies' gifts are no gifts and do no good.

- Sophocles

Children are the anchors that hold a mother to life.

- Sophocles

Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.

- Sophocles

All a man's affairs become diseased when he wishes to cure evils by evils.

- Sophocles

A state is not a state if it belongs to one man.

- Sophocles

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

People go to the movies instead of moving.

- Tennessee Williams

In memory, everything seems to happen to music.

- Tennessee Williams

How beautiful it is and how easily it can be broken.

- Tennessee Williams

Being disappointed is one thing and being discouraged is something else. I am disappointed but I am not discouraged.

- Tennessee Williams

All pretty girls are a trap, a pretty trap, and men expect them to be.

- Tennessee Williams

I think that hate is a feeling that can only exist where there is no understanding.

- Tennessee Williams

Time doesn't take away from friendship, nor does separation.

- Tennessee Williams

If I got rid of my demons, I’d lose my angels.

- Tennessee Williams

What is the victory of a cat on a hot tin roof? I wish I knew... Just staying on it, I guess, as long as she can...

- Tennessee Williams

I've got the guts to die. What I want to know is, have you got the guts to live?

- Tennessee Williams

There is a time for departure even when there's no certain place to go.

- Tennessee Williams

Make voyages. Attempt them. There's nothing else.

- Tennessee Williams

What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it's curved like a road through mountains.

- Tennessee Williams

Some things are not forgiveable. Deliberate cruelty is not forgiveable. It is the most unforgiveable thing in my opinion, and the one thing in which I have never, ever been guilty.

- Tennessee Williams