88+ Best Drama Quotes: Exclusive Selection

Drama is any situation or series of events having vivid, emotional, conflicting, or striking interest or results. Inspirational drama quotes will challenge the way you think, and help guide you through any life experience.

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Most Famous Drama Quotes

I just wanted to tell you that I understand if you go. It’s okay if you have to leave us. It’s okay if you want to stop fighting. Gayle Forman

I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train. Oscar Wilde

All the world’s a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed. Sean O’Casey

Never trust a pretty girl with an ugly secret. Sara Shepard

Don’t waste words on people who deserve your silence. Sometimes the most powerful thing you can say is nothing at all. Mandy Hale

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

If your blade were as sharp as your tongue, you’d have sliced my through years ago. Erica Goros

I just wanted to tell you that I understand if you go. It’s okay if you have to leave us. It’s okay if you want to stop fighting. Gayle Forman

I learned to keep my eyes open and my mouth shut. Gary Heiden

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

If only people put as much energy into helping people as they do into creating drama. Akiroq Brost

All the world’s a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed. Seán O’Casey

Dear me, whatever shall we do with mother? James Goldman

A day wasted on others is not wasted on one’s self. Charles Dickens

Don’t hate the game, hate the player the player should have known better than to play the game in the first place. Nyki Mack

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

Save the drama for the queens. Stand alone be a wolf, a rebel, a warrior, a savage, a badass. Be anything but a damn drama queen! Melody Lee

Love means never having to say you’re sorry. Erich Segal

Isn’t it kind of silly to think that tearing someone else down builds you up? Sean Covey

Free yourself from the complexities and drama of your life. Simplify. Look within. Within ourselves we all have the gifts and talents we need to fulfill the purpose we’ve been blessed with. Steve Maraboli

Every true genius is bound to be naive. Friedrich Schiller

The whole world can become the enemy when you lose what you love. Kristina McMorris

When it’s sunny, why not spend some time dressing up and go out to have a walk! Tachibana Higuchi

If there really is such a thing as turning in one’s grave, Shakespeare must get a lot of exercise. George Orwell

Love means never having to say you’re sorry. Erich Segal

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

The whole world can become the enemy when you lose what you love. Kristina McMorris

What is drama but life with the dull bits cut out. Alfred Hitchcock

Real life is messy, and drama is a shaped version of real life. Simon Beaufoy

The other girl, Iko, cupped her chin with both hands. This is so much better than a net drama. Marissa Meyer

It took me years to figure out that upset was upset, and tumultuousness was not the same thing as passion. Love isn’t drama. Deb Caletti

If she spoke, she would tell him the truth she was not okay at all, but horribly empty, now that she knew what it was like to be filled. Jodi Picoult

I saw myself driving through eternity in a timeless taxi. K. Mansfield

When he kisses me again, the last part of me that could stand myself dies. Karen Marie Moning

When you don’t know where you’re going, you drive on the highway. Roger Hedden

Taking on too much of other people’s drama is just a poor excuse for not taking ownership and control over your own life. José N. Harris

My life is full of drama, and I don’t have time to worry about something as petty as what I look like. Adele

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

You are enough to drive a saint to madness or a king to his knees. Grace Willows

For us, everything was a performance. A small, private smile catches me off guard and I glance down, hoping he won’t see it. Everything poetic. M.L. Rio

Anger precedes hate, while love vicariously hangs in the balance. Lorraine Gokul

I prefer brunettes. Stephanie Meyer

Never annoy an inspirational author or you will become the poison in her pen and the villain in every one of her books. Shannon L. Alder

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

I had liked him for all the wrong reasons. Wendelin Van Draanen

She was a ray of sunshine, a warm summer rain, a bright fire on a cold winter’s day, and now she could be dead because she had tried to save the man she loved. Grace Willows

There is a voice in my head that is only silenced by the scratching of my pen. Jessica Lynn Barbour

When the person you love can’t see your love for them beneath the painful things you say when they reject you, remember this Love is blind. Shannon L. Alder

There ought to be a law that allows eavesdroppers to sue. Gill McKnight

Green in nature is one thing, green in literature another. Nature and letters seem to have a natural antipathy; bring them together and they tear each other to pieces. Virginia Woolf

Just because some people are fueled by drama doesn’t mean you have to attend the performance. Cheryl Richardson

When you don’t know where you’re going, you drive on the highway. Roger Hedden

No I’m not a dream, I’m your worst nightmare. C.T. Todd

Your mother won a special reward, she told me, because everyone had a head in her pictures. We all applauded. Sarah Dessen

I am not interested in living in a city where there isn’t a production by Samuel Beckett running. Edward Albee

I had liked him for all the wrong reasons. Wendelin Van Draanen

What if two people want to be your partner, then what? Emily Giffin

I saw myself driving through Eternity in a timeless taxi. K. Mansfield

Those who truly know, know those who don’t, will learn if they ask. Rose Blue

Has anybody ever seen a drama critic in the daytime? Of course not. They come out after dark, up to no good. P.G. Wodehouse

If you’re going to give me something, give me something I’ll miss. Darlene Susan Girard

He knew what he was doing  justifying an atrocity. But in war, that’s what always happened. Your red lines  those you swore to defend at all costs when you signed up  shifted, until finally none worth fighting for remained. PTSD wasn’t just about what happened to you; it was about what you did. Barry Kirwan

Don’t feed the drama monster. It’s insatiable and has no friends. Donna Goddard

The money we spend to help you is really to help ourselves. We invest in you because you will do great things, and we want to be part of it. Steven Decker

No more games, no more drama. When you wanna be real gimme a hello. Nitya Prakash

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

I was born when she kissed me. I died when she left me. I lived a few weeks while she loved me. Humphrey Bogart

Half my life is an act of revision. John Irving

I only have time for you, not your drama. Ibrahim Hanif

In Ohio seasons are theatrical. Each one enters like a prima donna, convinced its performance is the reason the world has people in it. Toni Morrison

Taking on too much of other people’s drama is just a poor excuse for not taking ownership and control over your own life. José N. Harris

I was born when she kissed me. I died when she left me. I lived a few weeks while she loved me. Humphrey Bogart

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. Darlene Susan Girard

I am not interested in living in a city where there isn’t a production by Samuel Beckett running. Edward Albee

Maybe the consequences of someone’s unreason can be remedied only with new unreason? Igor Eliseev

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

When you surround yourself with dramatic people, your life will be driven by drama instead of destiny. Gift Gugu Mona

What if two people want to be your partner, then what? Emily Giffin

It always turns out this way at first people idolize you, swear to be your faithful friend forever and then spit in your tea and in your soul, too. Igor Eliseev

The door slid towards them like a freight train. One huge leap and they were clear with inches to spare. Icy water filled her white, leather sneakers and seeped into her denim jeans like kerosene rising in a wick. Marilyn Dalla Valle

People love scandal; people love drama. They love stripping away the layers to see what’s really in there, and they’ll do anything  as well as make it up  to get it. Julia Roberts

Great drama is great questions or it is nothing but technique. I could not imagine a theater worth my time that did not want to change the world. Arthur Miller

The human mind is a dramatic structure in itself and our society is absolutely saturated with drama. Edward Bond

Never annoy an inspirational author or you will become the poison in her pen and the villian in every one of her books. Shannon L. Alder

Conflict is drama, and how people deal with conflict shows you the kind of people they are. Stephen Moyer

The greatest win is walking away and choosing not to engage in drama and toxic energy at all. Lalah Delia