Harold Pinter Quotes
Sad Quotes by Harold Pinter

Good writing excites me, and makes life worth living.
- Harold Pinter

It's so easy for propaganda to work,
and dissent to be mocked.
- Harold Pinter

I was brought up in the War.
I was an adolescent in the Second World War.
And I did witness in London a great deal of the Blitz.
- Harold Pinter

I mean, don't forget the earth's about five thousand million years old,
at least.
Who can afford to live in the past?
- Harold Pinter

Clinton's hands remain incredibly clean,
don't they, and Tony Blair's smile remains as wide as ever.
I view these guises with profound contempt.
- Harold Pinter

Iraq is just a symbol of the attitude of western democracies
to the rest of the world.
- Harold Pinter

Most of the press is in league with government,
or with the status quo.
- Harold Pinter

If Milosevic is to be tried, he has to be tried by a proper court,
an impartial, properly constituted court which has international respect.
- Harold Pinter

The crimes of the U.S.
throughout the world have been systematic,
constant, clinical, remorseless, and fully documented
but nobody talks about them.
- Harold Pinter

I ought not to speak about the dead because the dead are all over the place.
- Harold Pinter

The Companion of Honour I regarded as an award from
the country for 50 years of work -
which I thought was okay.
- Harold Pinter

One is and is not in the centre of the maelstrom of it all.
- Harold Pinter

I don't intend to simply go away and write my plays and be a good boy.
I intend to remain an independent and political intelligence in my own right.
- Harold Pinter

I also found being called Sir rather silly.
- Harold Pinter

The Room I wrote in 1957, and I was really gratified
to find that it stood up.
I didn't have to change a word.
- Harold Pinter

There are some good rules and there are some lousy rules.
- Harold Pinter

I tend to think that cricket is the greatest thing
that God ever created on earth -
certainly greater than sex,
although sex isn't too bad either.
- Harold Pinter

My second play, The Birthday Party, I wrote in 1958 -
or 1957.
It was totally destroyed by the critics of the day,
who called it an absolute load of rubbish.
- Harold Pinter

One way of looking at speech is to say it is a constant
stratagem to cover nakedness.
- Harold Pinter

A short piece of work means as much to me as a long piece of work.
- Harold Pinter

I think it is the responsibility of a citizen of any
country to say what he thinks.
- Harold Pinter

Apart from the known and the unknown,
what else is there?
- Harold Pinter

This particular nurse said, Cancer cells are those
which have forgotten how to die.
I was so struck by this statement.
- Harold Pinter

There's a tradition in British intellectual life of
mocking any non-political force that gets involved in politics,
especially within the sphere of the arts and the theatre.
- Harold Pinter

Occasionally it does hit me, the words on a page.
And I still love doing that, as I have for the last 60 years.
- Harold Pinter

Beckett had an unerring light on things,
which I much appreciated.
- Harold Pinter

While The United States is the most powerful nation the world has ever seen,
it is also the most detested nation that the world has ever known.
- Harold Pinter

One's life has many compartments.
- Harold Pinter

I think that NATO is itself a war criminal.
- Harold Pinter

All that happens is that the destruction of human beings -
unless they're Americans -
is called collateral damage.
- Harold Pinter

I found the offer of a knighthood something that I
couldn't possibly accept.
I found it to be somehow squalid, a knighthood.
There's a relationship to government about knights.
- Harold Pinter

It was difficult being a conscientious objector in the 1940's,
but I felt I had to stick to my guns.
- Harold Pinter

I don't think there's been any writer like Samuel Beckett.
He's unique.
He was a most charming man and I used to send him my plays.
- Harold Pinter

I could be a bit of a pain in the arse.
Since I've come out of my cancer, I must say I intend
to be even more of a pain in the arse.
- Harold Pinter

I never think of myself as wise.
I think of myself as possessing a critical intelligence
which I intend to allow to operate.
- Harold Pinter

There is a movement to get an international criminal court in the world,
voted for by hundreds of states-but with the noticeable
absence of the United States of America.
- Harold Pinter

I believe an international criminal court is very much to be desired.
- Harold Pinter

The past is what you remember, imagine you remember,
convince yourself you remember, or pretend you remember.
- Harold Pinter

There are no hard distinctions between what is real and what is unreal,
nor between what is true and what is false.
A thing is not necessarily either true or false;
it can be both true and false.
- Harold Pinter

Regrets are the tears of good deeds left undone
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The only thing necessary for evil to triumph
is for enough good men to do nothing.
- Edmund Burke

Write your Sad times in Sand,
Write your Good times in Stone.
- George Bernard Shaw

Farewell My Friend
It was beautiful as long as it lasted
The journey of my life.
I have no regrets whatsoever
save the pain I'll leave behind.
Those dear hearts who love and care...
And the strings pulling at the heart and soul...
The strong arms that held me up
When my own strength let me down.
At every turning of my life
I came across good friends,
Friends who stood by me,
Even when the time raced me by.
Farewell, farewell my friends
I smile and bid you goodbye.
No, shed no tears for I need them not
All I need is your smile.
If you feel sad do think of me
for that's what I'll like
when you live in the hearts
of those you love, remember then
you never die.
- Gitanjali Ghei

A true friend is someone who
thinks that you are a good egg
even though he knows that
you are slightly cracked.
- Bernard Meltzer

A good traveler has no fixed plans,
and is not intent on arriving.
- Lao Tzu

Treat those who are good with goodness,
and also treat those who are not good with goodness.
Thus goodness is attained.
Be honest to those who are honest,
and be also honest to those who are not honest.
Thus honesty is attained.
- Lao Tzu

He who can no longer pause to wonder
and stand rapt in awe,
is as good as dead;
his eyes are closed.
- Albert Einstein

There are no good-byes.
Wherever we are, you'll always be in my heart.
- Anonymous

Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves
to recognize how good things really are.
- Marianne Williamson

It is never good dwelling on good-byes ...
it is not the being together that it prolongs, it is the parting.
- Elizabeth Bibesco

The River of Life has no meaning,
no good, no bad, no better, no worse,
no love, no hate, no fear, no anger, no joy.
The River of Life has no judgment, no expectation.
The River of Life just IS.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

By all means marry.
If you get a good wife, you'll be happy.
If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher
and that is a good thing for any man.
- Socrates

It takes time to persuade men to do even
what is for their own good.
- Thomas Jefferson

Don't be dismayed by good-byes.
A farewell is necessary before you can meet again.
- Richard Bach

I object to violence because
when it appears to do good,
the good is only temporary;
the evil it does is permanent.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Play to win, but be a good loser.
Have a plan for your life,
but accept whatever comes your way
with grace and gratitude.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

All tyranny needs to gain a foothold
is for people of good conscience to remain silent.
- Thomas Jefferson

A good-bye is never painful unless
you're never going to say hello again.
- Anonymous

I believe that everything happens for a reason.
People change so that you can learn to let go,
things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right,
you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself,
and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.
- Marilyn Monroe

Regrets are the tears of choices not made
and of good deeds left undone.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

There is nothing either good or bad,
but thinking makes it so.
- William Shakespeare

Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing
for most of us that it is not.
- Oscar Wilde

No good comes from hurrying.
- Yiddish Proverb

What do I think of Western civilization?
I think it would be a very good idea.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

The man who does not read good books
has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
- Mark Twain

Harvard takes perfectly good plums as students,
and turns them into prunes.
- Frank Lloyd Wright

A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar.
- H. L. Mencken

I know that God made the whole world in 4004 BC.
I know because my preacher told me. He's a good man.
He's even saving up all the money we give him
to go to bible college someday.
- Anonymous Humor

You have enemies? Good.
That means you've stood up for something,
sometime in your life.
- Winston Churchill

Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.
- Albert Schweitzer

History will have to record that the greatest tragedy
of this period of social transition
was not the strident clamor of the bad people,
but the appalling silence of the good people.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.