theater of life Quotes

Our whole life is like a play.

Life is a play.It's not its length,but its performance that counts.

...It all seemed to him to have disappeared as if behind a curtain at a theater. There are such curtains that drop in life. God is moving on to the next act.

Life's a show and we all play a part And when the music starts We open up our hearts

Act out being alive, like a play. And after a while, a long while, it will be true.

In early youth, as we contemplate our coming life, we are like children in a theatre before the curtain is raised, sitting there in high spirits and eagerly waiting for the play to begin. It is a blessing that we do not know what is really going to happen. Could we foresee it, there are times when children might seem like innocent prisoners, condemned, not to death, but to life, and as yet all unconscious of what their sentence means.

So far, I have been a spectator in this theater which is the world, but I am now about to mount the stage, and I come forward masked.

The stage on which we play our little dramas of life and love has for most of us but one setting.

The world is a stage we walk upon. We are all in a way fictional characters who write ourselves with our beliefs.

We dream — it is good we are dreaming — It would hurt us — were we awake — But since it is playing — kill us, And we are playing — shriek — What harm? Men die — externally — It is a truth — of Blood — But we — are dying in Drama — And Drama — is never dead — Cautious — We jar each other — And either — open the eyes — Lest the Phantasm — prove the Mistake — And the livid Surprise Cool us to Shafts of Granite — With just an Age — and Name — And perhaps a phrase in Egyptian — It's prudenter — to dream —

In my plays I want to look at life - at the commonplace of existence-as if we had just turned a corner and run into it for the first time.