A drama-filled life can be exhausting and unproductive. Unnecessary drama can use up your energy and take away your time from the things that actually matter.
Some people thrive on drama because they like the constant intrigue and excitement. In the end though, it’s all just distraction from the real world.
If you want to avoid drama, you’ll need to cut ties from the toxic people who bring it into your life. It could be family members, colleagues, or acquaintances. Saying no to drama and not becoming a participant of it can be hard.
Read these wise quotes that will help you live a life of no drama.
Be a NO DRAMA LLAMA. Don’t create it. Don’t invite it. Don’t associate with it. – Karen Salmansohn
Keep calm and no drama.
As I become older, I have less and less patience for pointless drama and fake people.
When you’re young you have no worries, no drama, only your imagination. It’s the best! – Devon Werkheiser
I have my team. Like if you see everyone around me – I have my hair and makeup girl, my assistant. They’re very calm, they’re all about positive energy. There’re no drama queens. Everyone wants everyone else to have a positive experience. There are no agendas. I think it creates a healthy environment and there are no boundaries to cross. – Fergie
A life filled with silly social drama and gossip indicates that a person is disconnected from purpose and lacking meaningful goals. People on a path of purpose don’t have time for drama. – Brendon Burchard
Don’t start drama and then say you hate drama.
The Welsh are the only nation in the world that has produced no graphic or plastic art, no architecture, no drama. They just sing. Sing and blow down wind instruments of plated silver. – Evelyn Waugh
When faced with senseless drama, spiteful criticisms, and misguided opinions, walking away is the best way to stand up for yourself.
There’s no need for drama and hate, y’all. Let’s love each other! We’re all human, right? – Taylor York
Delete the drama.
Oh, come on. Drama is just life with the dull bits cut out.
Let go of the people who dull your shine, poison your spirit and bring you drama. Cancel your subscription to their issues. – Steve Maraboli
Life is short, I have no time for drama. – Caroline Manzo
Sometimes, those who don’t socialize much aren’t actually anti-social. They just have no tolerance for drama, stupidity, and fake people.
I’m at the stage of my life where I keep myself out of arguments. Even if you tell me 1+1=5, you’re absolutely correct.
I hope that’s how it is on every set – or that Teen Wolf goes on forever! Our cast is so honest with each other. There’s no drama. There’s no judgment. We just click. It’s like a family. – Crystal Reed
Thank God my life is normal. I work hard to make it normal. My husband and I don’t want Hollywood drama. I go to the market and do the dishes. I’m not treated differently because I work on TV. – Alison Sweeney
It’s not some big event that creates the drama, it’s the little things of everyday life that bring about that drama. – Asghar Farhadi
Just because some people are fueled by drama doesn’t mean you have to attend the performance. – Cheryl Richardson
I’m not anti-social. I’m anti-drama.
The most famous Obama precept is, ‘No drama.’ – Dan Pfeiffer
I honestly love being around positive people. You’re not judged, there’s no drama, and everyone just wants to relax and have a nice time.
Work hard, pray hard, no drama.
Life is too short for drama, anger and bad vibes. Let it go.
If it costs you your peace, it’s too expensive.
Now I’d like someone to tell me there is no drama in real life! – Alexandre Dumas
One of the best decisions you can ever make is to retire from drama and distance yourself from the people who love it.
Just because you’re a drama queen, doesn’t mean I’ll treat you like royalty.
Textbooks pretty much have no real drama. They have no real storyline. To the extent they have a storyline. – James Loewen
Learn to be okay with people not knowing your side of the story. You have nothing to prove to anyone.
Life is easier when you’re not complaining, worrying or stressing about drama.
It is no accident that propels people like us to Paris. Paris is simply an artificial stage, a revolving stage that permits the spectator to glimpse all phases of the conflict. Of itself Paris initiates no dramas. They are begun elsewhere. Paris is simply an obstetrical instrument that tears the living embryo from the womb and puts it in the incubator. – Henry Miller
A sign of ageing is the diminishing capacity to tolerate drama.
Tea is an act complete in its simplicity.
When I drink tea, there is only me and the tea.
The rest of the world dissolves.
There are no worries about the future.
No dwelling on past mistakes.
Tea is simple: loose-leaf tea, hot pure water, a cup.
I inhale the scent, tiny delicate pieces of the tea floating above the cup.
I drink the tea, the essence of the leaves becoming a part of me.
I am informed by the tea, changed.
This is the act of life, in one pure moment, and in this act the truth of the world suddenly becomes revealed: all the complexity, pain, drama of life is a pretense, invented in our minds for no good purpose.
There is only the tea, and me, converging.
– Thich Nhat Hanh
I think that no matter how much you don’t like yourself or the drama of your life you can still find some comedy in it. – Tommy Lee Jones
Cut away the nonsense, the drama, the regret, the scars of the past, and make a decision to no longer let them govern your happiness and freedom. – Steve Maraboli
No drama, no negativity.
I’m at a point in my life where I just want a happly family, a healthy me, money in the bank, and no drama.
If you can reincarnate, what do you wanna be in your next life? I think I want to become a rock. A stone has no troubles and lives a simple life. The worst that could happen would be being stepped on, but that won’t hurt. Am I right? – Ah Ken
I like a no-drama set. I welcome visitors by and large; I like music playing on sets between set-ups – all that stuff. – Chris Eigemen
Real people avoid drama. They know their time is too precious and choose not to waste it on unimportant people.
More Jesus. Less drama.
If you raise the bar and offer your best to others then you deserve the same or better. Sometimes you have to divorce people who add no value to your life because they have nothing to offer but drama. – Bindu
Just because some people are fueled by drama doesn’t mean you have to attend the performance. – Cheryl Richardson
Our best decisions are often what we choose not to get involved in. – Doug Cooper
Feel no guilt when you walk away from toxic family and friends. It’s the only way to ensure a drama-free life.
Well, I’m ready for a long patch of boredom. – D.L. Orton
They made a monster out of you because you walked away from their drama. So be it. Let them deal with what they have created. Be at peace with yourself and stay out of the conflict.
So thankful my life is drama-free. Keep your unhappiness to yourself!
There comes a time when you have to let go of all the pointless drama and the people who create it and surround yourself with people who make you laugh so hard that you forget the bad and focus solely on the good. After all, life’s too short to be anything but happy.
If you bring drama to my door, don’t be surprised if I close it.
It’s strange, the lack of emotion, the absence of drama in reality. When things happen in real life, extraordinary things, there’s no music, there’s no dah-dah-daaahhs. There’s no close-ups. No dramatic camera angles. Nothing happens. Nothing stops, the rest of the world goes on. – Kevin Brooks
Some people can’t find happiness in their life unless they’re creating DRAMA:
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No more games, no more drama. When you wanna be real gimme a holla.
If there’s not drama and negativity in my life, all my songs will be really wack and boring or something. – Eminem
As for writing about temptation, there’s no drama without temptation, and no novel without drama. – Tom Perrotta
Work hard, Have fun, NO drama
There’s no drama. There’s nothing. Everyone is there to work, everyone is really kind and everyone is very helpful, especially to me. I went in there, hoping to learn. I could have easily been put on some project with somebody who really doesn’t care about teaching or sharing. But, while I was there, all of the cast were very helpful. I would constantly ask questions. – Steven Yeun
I don’t want no drama in my life, even though we have a little bit, but no more letting people control you. That’s drama, because then you become something that you’re not. – Mary J. Blige
She wanted there to be more blood and screeching. She wanted each death to detonate before her like a little black firework. She wanted it to matter. There was bellowing all around her, but the killing itself was soft and quiet and matter of fact. Life to death, life to death, with no more drama than turning over a counterpane. – Frances Hardinge
You can’t get caught up in drama if you don’t entertain it.
I’m overweight, despise change, and rarely, if ever, initiate anything. Unlike my friends, I’ve had no drama in my life which might qualify as box office material. If a little more drama came my way, however, I would probably need to purchase some courage in order to withstand it. Oh well, if a bit of change equals a bit of drama, I’m willing to risk it. – J.C. Patrick
Sometimes the easiest way to solve a problem is to stop participating in the problem.
An insecure woman will stir up trouble because she has to be the winner. A secure woman will do nothing because she doesn’t care either way.
Some people insist on inviting me to their drama buffet … No thanks! My soul hungers for nourishment and growth; it doesn’t lust for poison and depletion. – Steve Maraboli
Perhaps passing through the gates of death is like passing quietly through the gate in a pasture fence. On the other side, you keep walking, without the need to look back. No shock, no drama, just the lifting of a plank or two in a simple wooden gate in a clearing. Neither pain, nor floods of light, nor great voices, but just the silent crossing of a meadow. – Mark Helprin
I no longer have time for unnecessary drama. I wasted so much time scared, self-conscious and insecure. Life is too short to stress the small things anymore. – Daryl Hannah
If I’ve learned anything, it’s there’s just no drama, which is awesome. I’ve also just learned to read when it’s a good time to talk about something serious and when it’s not. And whenever I start to have a conversation with them, and I kind of see their eyes start to glaze over, I’m like, ‘Okay, another time is better.’ You learn how to compromise and you learn how to read each other. Honestly, being in a band with two guys has prepared me so much for when it’s time for me to get married! – Hillary Scott