Quotes by
Eugene O’Neill |
1888-1953 , American playwright, Nobel 1936
American dramatist and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1936. His masterpiece, “Long Day’s Journey into Night” (produced posthumously 1956), is at the apex of a long string of great plays, including Beyond the Horizon (1920), Anna Christie (1922), Strange Interlude (1928), Ah! Wilderness (1933), and The Iceman Cometh (1946). | 21 quotes | 3,088 visits |
Quotations
| • | I knew it! I knew it! Born in a hotel room and, goddamn it, dying in a hotel room. (his last words) 18 |
| • | I am so far from being a pessimist...on the contrary, in spite of my scars, I am tickled to death at life. 7 |
| • | Writing is my vacation from living. 6 |
| • | Life is perhaps best regarded as a bad dream between two awakenings. 5 |
| • | Man is born broken. He lives by mending. The Grace of God is glue. 5 |
| • | Don't cry. The damned don't cry. 4 |
| • | The sea hates a coward. 4 |
| • | We fought so long against small things that we became small ourselves. 4 |
| • | Dogs...do not ruin their sleep worrying about how to keep the objects they have, and to obtain the objects they have not. There is nothing of value they have to bequeath except their love and their faith. 4 |
| • | God gave us mouths that close and ears that don't... that should tell us something. 4 |
| • | Any fool knows that to work hard at something you want to accomplish is the only way to be happy. 4 |
| • | The past is the present, isn't it? It's the future, too. We all try to lie out of that but life won't let us. 4 |
| • | We are such things as rubbish is made of, so let's drink up and forget it. 4 |
| • | You said they had found the secret of happiness because they had never heard that love can be a sin. 3 |
| • | You're worse than decent. You're virtuous. 3 |
| • | Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors. 3 |
| • | Man's loneliness is but his fear of life. 3 |
| • | It's a great game - the pursuit of happiness. 3 |
| • | Obsessed by a fairy tale, we spend our lives searching for a magic door and a lost kingdom of peace. 3 |
| • | There is no present or future, only the past, happening over and over again -now. 3 |
Funny Quotes
| • | If dat ghost have money, I tells him never to haunt you less'n he wants to lose it! 5 |
