65 Memorable Drama Quotes

In the world of drama, words are wielded with an artistry that captures the essence of human experience, conveying emotions that resonate deeply with audiences. From classic theater productions to contemporary films and television shows, drama quotes have the power to evoke laughter, tears, introspection, and inspiration. In this blog post, we delve into a thoughtfully curated compilation of 65 memorable drama quotes, each serving as a testament to the enduring impact of powerful storytelling. Whether you're revisiting the lines that have moved you or discovering new favorites, these quotes offer a glimpse into the profound narratives that continue to shape our cultural landscape. Join us as we explore the unforgettable words that have left their mark on drama enthusiasts worldwide.

1. “...uncorny, human sized drama” - ira glass

2. “When you don't know where you're going, you drive on the highway.” - Roger Hedden

3. “I can't go on, I'll go on.” - Samuel Beckett

4. “We do on stage things that are supposed to happen off. Which is a kind of integrity, if you look on every exit as being an entrance somewhere else.” - Tom Stoppard

5. “She had no tolerance for scenes which were not of her own making.” - Edith Wharton

6. “The moving light, rejoicing in its strength, Sped from the pyre of pine, and urged its way, In golden glory, like some strange new sun...” - Aeschylus

7. “I'd heard of Evergreen Care Center before. Cass and I had always made fun of the stupid ads they ran on TV, featuring some dragged-out woman with a limp perm and big, painted-on circles under her eyes, downing vodka and sobbing uncontrollably. "We can't heal you at Evergreen", the very somber voiceover said. "But we can help you to heal yourself." It had become our own running joke, applicable to almost anything. "Hey Cass, "I'd say, "hand me that toothpaste." "Caitlin," she'd say, her voice dark and serious. "I can't hand you the toothpaste. But I CAN help you hand the toothpaste to yourself.” - Sarah Dessen

8. “Only half a page left now. Shall I fill it with 'I love you, I love you'-- like father's page of cats on the mat? No. Even a broken heart doesn't warrant a waste of good paper.” - Dodie Smith

9. “Symbols are nothing but the natural speech of drama.” - Tennessee Williams

10. “A darkness different from Ember's, but just as frightening...” - Jeanne DuPrau

11. “You can’t save others from themselves because those who make a perpetual muddle of their lives don’t appreciate your interfering with the drama they’ve created. They want your poor-sweet-baby sympathy, but they don’t want to change.” - Sue Grafton

12. “Anger precedes hate, while love vicariously hangs in the balance.” - Lorraine Gokul

13. “Would you dare to walk with the beast on the dark side of the moon?” - Demetri Daskova

14. “Let's sing our way out of this” - Isabel

15. “What is drama but life with the dull bits cut out.” - Alfred Hitchcock

16. “And, since they are theater people, they are all talking. All of them. Simultaneously. They do not need to be heard; they only need to be speaking.” - John Green

17. “There are things in this comedy of Pyramus and Thisby that will never please. First, Pyramus must draw a sword to kill himself; which the ladiescannot abide. How answer you that?SNOUTBy'r lakin, a parlous fear.STARVELINGI believe we must leave the killing out, when all is done.BOTTOMNot a whit: I have a device to make all well.Write me a prologue; and let the prologue seem tosay, we will do no harm with our swords, and thatPyramus is not killed indeed; and, for the morebetter assurance, tell them that I, Pyramus, am notPyramus, but Bottom the weaver: this will put themout of fear.QUINCEWell, we will have such a prologue; and it shall bewritten in eight and six.BOTTOMNo, make it two more; let it be written in eight and eight.” - William Shakespeare

18. “No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man will store up in his ghostly heart.” - F. Scott Fitzgerald

19. “But what are kings, when regiment is gone,But perfect shadows in a sunshine day?- Edward II, 5.1” - Christopher Marlowe

20. “People don't want their lives fixed. Nobody wants their problems solved. Their dramas. their distractions. Their stories resolved. Their messes cleaned up. Because what would they have left? Just the big scary unknown.” - Chuck Palahniuk

21. “A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self.” - Charles Dickens

22. “Never trust a pretty girl with an ugly secret.” - Sara Shepard

23. “Her name was Mora ... and she was waiting.” - M.L LeGette

24. “Life is like the drama on a stage.What was once declared as a sin, perhaps much worse nowadays.” - Toba Beta

25. “Our lives drifts along with normal things happening. Some ups, some downs, but nothing to go down in history about. Nothing so fantastic or terrible that it'll be told for a thousand years.“But because we grew up surrounded by big dramatic story arcs in books and movies, we think our lives are supposed to be filled with huge ups and downs! So people pretend there is drama where there is none.”That's why people invent fights. That's why we're drawn to sports. That's why we act like everything that happens to us is such a big deal.We're trying to make our life into a fairy tale.” - Kurt Vonnegut

26. “Every scene should be able to answer three questions: "Who wants what from whom? What happens if they don't get it? Why now?” - David Mamet

27. “It's a true image, born of a false spectacle.” - Jean Genet

28. “What after all, is a halo? It's only one more thing to keep clean.” - Christopher Fry

29. “Get busy with the issue! In this regard, time is not friendly…nor should it be.” - T.F. Hodge

30. “"One cannot be a mother without first being a person; family, husband, and children should not be allowed, as is so often the case, to steal a woman’s selfhood and her dreams." Mother to Sherlock, Mycroft, and Enola Holmes by author Nancy Springer” - Vannessagrace

31. “It's going to be okay. That's what everyone says when they really have no idea how it's going to be.” - Avery Sawyer

32. “I said the first thing that came into my head unfortunately. "Save the drama for your mama " I told her just like an eleven-year-old.” - Charlaine Harris

33. “I winked and locked my arm in Carter's, and we stood there, watching Dean stroll away."You know the guy's never gonna give up," Carter nudged me, letting out a sigh."We'd have really pretty babies, huh?""Yup. They'd be rad little Brangelinas, running around tearing the place up.""Yeah, you're right. My rejection is such a disservice to the world...” - Rachael Wade

34. “Theater cannot include only people. What acts on stage is matter.” - Gaetano Pesche

35. “A hard man is nice to find” - Tom Barry

36. “No I am not okay. I've just been pulled out of play tryouts where I had to be the first to audition and everyone's trying out for the same parts, I just had a very bizarre conversation with the school secretary, Megan may be throwing up her cucumber sandwiches, I've broken five of the seven deadly sins in as many hours, a demon may be inside a girl in my world religions class, Grant Brawner called me by name, my license photo looks like a dead fish, I have to drive my friends all over town in two hours when I've never even driven without Dad before, none of my birthday wishes have come true yet, and now you're here with muffins like I'm in second grade? So, no, I am not ok.” - Wendy Mass

37. “If you're going to give me something, give me something I'll miss.excerpt from: freefalling” - Darlenne Susan Girard

38. “Every thing's for sale out here. Anything you want. About the only thing you can't buy is my dignity and self-respect, cause those were the first to go. And I gave them away for free. - excerpt from: freefalling” - Darlenne Susan Girard

39. “For 1,300 days of Sarajevo's drama, important people in the world who were supposed to act kept their eyes closed, ... But not you. You were not silent. Your voice was clear.” - Alijia Izetbegovic

40. “It’s the uncertainty of being accepted that creates the drama in our lives.” - Elizabeth Eulberg

41. “[bookcover:Lessons Learned|13578440] Another shot, and for some reason, I’m the only one who can’t move. Who can’t scream. Who can’t do anything but watch as the young man’s body slumps over his tray. Finally, I find my voice and scream his name.” - Sydney Logan

42. “Apunta a la Luna y, si fallas, al menos estarás entre las estrellas.” - PD Te amo Cecelia Ahern.

43. “Had I ever truly been free? Though I wasn’t shipped off to different countries did that make me any less of a prisoner?” - Kaylynne Spauls

44. “Em, you have a soul.”“How can you be so sure of that, Hayden? How many people die and come back?”“No one dies and comes back. You did because of your sister, and you have a gift. Maybe that played a role in your coming back, but you have a soul. You aren’t evil. There’s nothing you can say that will make me think that.” I looked up and our gazes locked. “And there’s nothing you can say to make me feel differently.” He lowered his eyes. Thick lashes fanned his cheeks. “I know you do, because I wouldn’t want to… to kiss you if you didn’t have a soul.” I froze. “You… you want to kiss me?” - Jennifer L. Armentrout

45. “Life's nycer when it's Naughtie!” - Naughtie Scribe

46. “Modesty seldom resides in a breast that is not enriched with nobler virtues.” - Oliver Goldsmith

47. “The moment that followed was one that would forever change the course of her life. She reflected on it later, and wondered how such a short matter of seconds could alter so permanently every part of her existence. Like an unstoppable line of dominoes, the moment was the flick that set everything into motion.” - Jennifer Perry

48. “And Kate thought about a time, long ago, when she had witnessed an ongoing romance between two mental patients. As a teenager watching their unlikely relationship unfold in front of her, she had understood that people did whatever they needed to do to be happy, regardless of their unfortunate circumstances. She supposed her mother’s day care center was born out of the desire to feel needed, while making use of the skills that were practically all she had managed to acquire during decades of battling a debilitating illness.” - Sabrynne McLain

49. “My great-great grandfather and I were the best of friends, although we never met” - Raji Singh

50. “I cannot help but wonder if any parents ever actually schedule in adolescent drama on their day planners. Looks like a slow week, Sarah. I guess I can pencil in your eating disorder.” - Huntley Fitzpatrick

51. “Setiap ada hujan, aku akan mengingatmu. Karena kamu benci hujan. Dan kamu, di tengah kebencianmu, kamu akan mengingatku - Shin Ji Woo & KIm Sun.” - Lia Indra Andriana

52. “God knows of love” - Leo Tolstoy

53. “Because I want to have sex with him--and because that's sinful--I'm blushing and flushing furiously under his scrutinizing scrutiny.” - Jess C. Scott

54. “THE MARK OF ATHENA BABY!!!!!!” - Rick Riordan

55. “It is a Siren's burden," she whispered, "So much strength, so much pain. You will feel the weight of humanity on your shoulders, though you are only partly human yourself. Soon you will not have any traces of that left.” - Kaylynne Spauls

56. “Because you know that's all I needs, all I wants, is for you to try to run, to turn your back on me and run. I know you aint going to. Because all you got to beat is me. I got to beat old Carothers. Get your pistol.""No," the other said. "Go home. Get out of here. Tonight I will come to your house-----""After this?" Lucas said. "Me and you, in the same country, breathing the same air even? No matter what you could say, what you could even prove so I would have to believe it, after this? Get your pistol.” - William Faulkner

57. “If you stand at the window where I stood, if you read the books that I read, if we can be with each other even just like that...then lets, count that as us being together. I'll miss you alot. I love you. I love you...” - T.O.P

58. “Magistrate: What do you propose to do then, pray?Lysistrata: You ask me that! Why, we propose to administer the treasury ourselvesMagistrate: You do?Lysistrata: What is there in that a surprise to you? Do we not administer the budget of household expenses?Magistrate: But that is not the same thing.Lysistrata: How so – not the same thing?Magistrate: It is the treasury supplies the expenses of the War.Lysistrata: That's our first principle – no War!” - Aristophanes

59. “He plunged into the foliage, and was swept into a humid, wet world of towering trees, animal chirps and thick ferns. After a few steps, he turned, and could barely make out the village. He walked a few more steps. He could see nothing now except for the thick trees and long ferns and grasses that surrounded him. He was enveloped into the confined space between trees, surrounded by the jungle heat and staccato chirps. He turned in the direction of the village, but could only see thick, dense trees. Hoping his sense of direction had not been muddled, he turned back around to the direction of the alleged ocean, and kept walking.Now the calls he heard sounded more and more strange. How far had he walked by now? The jungle, or rain forest, whatever it was, did not relent, and he kept on weaving into narrow gaps between the sturdy ferns and towering trees, pressing onwards. This continued for a seemingly oppressive amount of time, and he began to doubt his decision. To come to this place. To take a chance with his life, which was going in the right direction. Why couldn’t he be happy with the normal and mundane, he cursed, scolding his own stubbornness” - T.P. Grish

60. “A man who respects his wife, does not sleep with other women. And a woman who respects herself does not allow her husband to get away with it” - Courtney Giardina

61. “. I felt the sun graze my face as I sped further and further from it all. The only negative part about running was that at some point I knew I’d have to stop. I’d have to turn around and go back. And whatever troubles had haunted me when I left, would be waiting upon my return.” - Courtney Giardina

62. “The Professor is coming...” - M Hopkins

63. “But truly it was not the money that mattered. It was the distant glitter of everything that was possible in the world, the things she had always wanted for herself and could not name and called happiness because there was no other word.” - Tim O'Brien

64. “From Chloe's Secret--coming soon“What are you saying?”“I’m saying I want to have a relationship with you. I want to love you.”“Is there a ‘but’ coming next?”“But the funny thing is, when I didn’t want to love you—it happened anyway.”He slipped his arms into my back pockets and hugged the breath out of me. I choked, my eyes stung. “I don’t know what to say.”He smiled. “Say whatever you want to. Just because I said it, you don’t have to.”He was right; I didn’t have to. He wasn’t asking anything of me.” - Shelley K. Wall

65. “Let go of the people who dull your shine, poison your spirit, and bring you drama. Cancel your subscription to their issues.” - Steve Maraboli