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 | 2,511 visits |
Quotations
| • | I knew it! I knew it! Born in a hotel room and, goddamn it, dying in a hotel room. (his last words) 17 |
| • | I am so far from being a pessimist...on the contrary, in spite of my scars, I am tickled to death at life. 6 |
| • | Writing is my vacation from living. 5 |
| • | Man is born broken. He lives by mending. The Grace of God is glue. 4 |
| • | Life is perhaps best regarded as a bad dream between two awakenings. 4 |
| • | We are such things as rubbish is made of, so let's drink up and forget it. 3 |
| • | 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. 3 |
| • | Any fool knows that to work hard at something you want to accomplish is the only way to be happy. 3 |
| • | God gave us mouths that close and ears that don't... that should tell us something. 3 |
| • | 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. 3 |
| • | We fought so long against small things that we became small ourselves. 3 |
| • | The sea hates a coward. 3 |
| • | Don't cry. The damned don't cry. 3 |
| • | There is no present or future, only the past, happening over and over again -now. 2 |
| • | Obsessed by a fairy tale, we spend our lives searching for a magic door and a lost kingdom of peace. 2 |
| • | It's a great game - the pursuit of happiness. 2 |
| • | Man's loneliness is but his fear of life. 2 |
| • | Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors. 2 |
| • | You're worse than decent. You're virtuous. 2 |
| • | You said they had found the secret of happiness because they had never heard that love can be a sin. 2 |
Funny Quotes
| • | If dat ghost have money, I tells him never to haunt you less'n he wants to lose it! 2 |
