Quote by Emily Mortimer

It is brilliant going to the theatre and being forced to sit and listen and think about life. It can be almost a near-religious experience.

It is brilliant going to the theatre and being forced to sit

Summary

This quote highlights the transformative power of attending theater. When one is compelled to sit and fully engage with the performance, it evokes a deep introspection on life. The experience can be likened to a spiritual encounter, where individuals are absorbed in contemplation, gaining new perspectives and understanding. The immersive and thought-provoking nature of theater allows audience members to encounter profound emotional and intellectual connections, making it an enlightening and almost sacred experience.

Topics

Experience

By Emily Mortimer

Liked the quote? Share it with your friends.

Random Quotations

Satan is neither omnipotent nor free to do everything he ple

Satan is neither omnipotent nor free to do everything he pleases. Prince of the world he may be, but the Prince of Peace has come and dealt him a death blow.

Harold Lindsell

Evil

I always thought I could play pro ball. I had confidence in

I always thought I could play pro ball. I had confidence in my ability, You have to. If you don't who will?

Confidence

The vast majority of large scale change efforts fail. Which

The vast majority of large scale change efforts fail. Which means that the probability that you have actually experienced a failure, and your people know that and are pessimistic, therefore, about trying something again, is very high.

Failure

The course of my long life hath reached at last in fragile b

The course of my long life hath reached at last in fragile bark over a tempestuous sea the common harbor, where must rendered be account for all the actions of the past.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Death

Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what y

Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire; you will what you imagine; and at last you create what you will.

George Bernard Shaw

Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but

Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Friends

We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and th

We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Best

The work of art, just like any fragment of human life consid

The work of art, just like any fragment of human life considered in its deepest meaning, seems to me devoid of value if it does not offer the hardness, the rigidity, the regularity, the luster on every interior and exterior facet, of the crystal.

Art

We are only constrained by the boundaries of our imagination

We are only constrained by the boundaries of our imagination

Imagination Business Inspirational Performance Management Training

It is a happiness to wonder; -- it is a happiness to dream.

It is a happiness to wonder; -- it is a happiness to dream.

Edgar Allan Poe

Happiness Wonder Dream Morella Short Story

What but a pestilential vapour can hover over society when i

What but a pestilential vapour can hover over society when its chief director is only instructed in the invention of crimes, or the stupid routine of childish ceremonies?

Mary Wollstonecraft

Truth

Of rich men it telleth, and strange is the story how they ha

Of rich men it telleth, and strange is the story how they have, and they hanker, and grip far and wide; And they live and they die, and the earth and its glory has been but a burden they scarce might abide.

Wealth