Eugene O'Neill quotes: wise famous quotes, sayings and quotations by Eugene O'Neill

Eugene O'Neill Famous Quotes & Sayings

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You're worse than decent. You're virtuous.

You said they had found the secret of happiness because they had never heard that love can be a sin.

Man is born broken. He lives by mending. The grace of God is glue.

Dalmatians are not only superior to other dogs, they are like all dogs, infinitely less stupid than men.

God gave us mouths that close and ears that don't ... that should tell us something.

Irish as a Paddy's pig.

We are such things as rubbish is made of, so let's drink up and forget it.

But land is land, and it's safer than the stocks and bonds of Wall Street swindlers.

Stay passed out, that's the right dope. There ain't any cool willow trees- except you grow your own in a bottle.

LAVINIA: He made me feel for the first time in my life that everything about love could be sweet and natural ... I have a right to love!

Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

One may not give one's soul to a devil of hate - and remain forever scatheless.

I'm thinking 'tis only slaves do be giving heed to the day that's gone or the day to come.

And I took a seat in the grandstand of philosophical detachment to fall asleep observing the cannibals do their death dance.

Curiosity killed the cat, and satisfaction brought it back.

We need above all to learn again to believe in the possibility of nobility of spirit in ourselves.

If that ghost have money I tells him never to haunt you
less'n he wants to lose it!

When men make gods, there is no God!

Then in the spring something happened to me. Yes, I remember. I fell in love with James Tyrone and was so happy for time.

Writing is my vacation from living

The sea hates a coward.

Man's loneliness is but his fear of life.

What beastly incidents our memories insist on cherishing, the ugly, and the disgusting; the beautiful things we have to keep diaries to remember.

Life is a long drawn out lie, with a sniffling sigh at the end of it.

What's the use coming home to get the blues over what can't be helped.

While you are still beautiful and life still woos, it is such a fine gesture of disdainful pride to jilt it.

When I was a kid I used to get fun out of my horrors.

The devil! what beastly things our memories insist on cherishing!

The Mad Scene. Enter Ophelia!

It's a great game - the pursuit of happiness.

Obsessed by a fairy tale, we spend our lives searching for a magic door and a lost kingdom of peace.

No dog is as well bred or as well mannered or as distinguished and handsome.

It is Mystery - the mystery any one man or woman can feel but not understand as the meaning of any event - or accident - in any life on earth ...

Critics? I love every bone in their heads.

Any fool knows that to work hard at something you want to accomplish is the only way to be happy.

I discovered early in life that living frightened me when I was sober.

We fought so long against small things that we became small ourselves.

You're two of a kind, and a bad kind.

Censorship of anything, at any time, in any place, on whatever pretense, has always been and always will be the last resort of the boob and the bigot.

There is no present or future-only the past, happening over and over again-now.

Life is perhaps best regarded as a bad dream between two awakenings.

Those who succeed and do not push on to greater failure are the spiritual middle-classers.

Happiness hates the timid! So does science!

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.

Our lives are merely strange dark interludes in the electric display of God the Father.

God damn you, stop shoving your rotten soul in my lap!

HOGAN-No, I wouldn't think it, but my motto in life is never trust anyone too far, not even myself.

I will be an artist or nothing!

Dey's some things I don't got to be told. I kin read them in folks' eyes.

I am so far from being a pessimist ... on the contrary, in spite of my scars, I am tickled to death at life.

That's right! Run him down! Run down everybody! Everyone is a fake to you!

One should either be sad or joyful. Contentment is a warm sty for eaters and sleepers.

Well, you wanted me to be a hero in blue, so you better be resigned! Murdering doesn't improve one's manners!

Where am I? What the hell difference is it? There's plenty o' fresh air and the moon fur a glim. Don't be so damn pertic'lar!

Curiosity killed the cat, but satisfaction brought it back.

You can't be too careful about work. It's the most dangerous habit known to medical science.

I knew it. I knew it. Born in a hotel room - and God damn it - died in a hotel room.

Well, they say a good cry does you a lot of good.

A game of secret, cunning stratagems, in which only the fools who are fated to lose reveal their true aims or motives - even to themselves.

We are where centuries only count as seconds, and after a thousand lives, our eyes begin to open.

Curiosity killed the cat.