Eugene O'Neill Quotes

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

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  Ears, Mouths, Should

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

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  Time, Memories, Future

  Bhagwat S. Goyal, Eugene O'Neill (1975). “The Strategy of Survival: Human Significance of O'Neill's Plays”, Ghaziabad : Vimal Prakashan

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

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  God, Faith, Men

  Eugene O'Neill (1926). “The great god Brown: The fountain, The moon of the Caribbees, and other plays”

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

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  Believe, Needs, Spirit

  Eugene O'Neill (1988). “Complete Plays: 1932-1943”

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

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  Long, Small Things

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• None of us can help the things life has done to us. They’re done before you realize it, and once they’re done they make you do other things until at last everything comes between you and what you’d like to be, and you’ve lost your true self forever.

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  Self, Forever, Experience

  Travis Bogard, Eugene O'Neill (1988). “Contour in Time: The Plays of Eugene O'Neill”, p.434, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• We talk about the American Dream, and want to tell the world about the American Dream, but what is that Dream, in most cases, but the dream of material things? I sometimes think that the United States for this reason is the greatest failure the world has ever seen.

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  Dream, Thinking, United States

  Eugene O'Neill, Mark W. Estrin (1990). “Conversations with Eugene O'Neill”, p.230, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• Life is for each man a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

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  Life, Wall, Mirrors

  "Contour in Time: The Plays of Eugene O'Neill".

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• Writing is my vacation from living.

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  Writing, Vacation

  Bhagwat S. Goyal, Eugene O'Neill (1975). “The Strategy of Survival: Human Significance of O'Neill's Plays”, Ghaziabad : Vimal Prakashan

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• When you're 50 you start thinking about things you haven't thought about before. I used to think getting old was about vanity - but actually it's about losing people you love. Getting wrinkles is trivial.

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  Birthday, Women, Thinking

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

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  Karma, Eye, Century

  Eugene O'Neill (1951). “Plays: "Anna Christie." Beyond the horizon. The Emperor Jones. The hairy ape. The great god Brown. The straw. Dynamo. Days without end. The iceman cometh”

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• If a person is to get the meaning of life he must learn to like the facts about himself -- ugly as they may seem to his sentimental vanity -- before he can learn the truth behind the facts. And the truth is never ugly.

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  Life, Vanity, Ugly

  Eugene O'Neill, Mark W. Estrin (1990). “Conversations with Eugene O'Neill”, p.37, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• 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.

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  Dog, Sleep, Grieving

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• Happiness hates the timid. So does science.

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  Happiness, Hate, Science

  Eugene O'Neill (1995). “Three Plays”, Vintage

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• Why am I afraid to dance, I who love music and rhythm and grace and song and laughter? Why am I afraid to live, I who love life and the beauty of flesh and the living colors of the earth and sky and sea? Why am I afraid to love, I who love love?

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  Song, Laughter, Love Life

  Travis Bogard, Eugene O'Neill (1988). “Contour in Time: The Plays of Eugene O'Neill”, p.271, Oxford University Press on Demand

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

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  Spiritual, Discovery, Doors

  Eugene O'Neill (1988). “More Stately Mansions: The Unexpurgated Edition”, p.281, Oxford University Press

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• Suppose I was to tell you that it's just beauty that's calling me, the beauty of the far off and unknown, the mystery and spell which lures me, the need of freedom of great wide spaces, the joy of wandering on and on----in quest of the secret which is hidden over there----beyond the horizon?

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  Space, Joy, Secret

  Eugene O'Neill (1996). “Beyond the Horizon”, p.7, Courier Corporation

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• One last word of farewell, dear master and mistress. Whenever you visit my grave, say to yourselves with regret but also happiness in your hearts at the remembrance of my long happy life with you: "Here lies one who loves us and whom we loved." No matter how deep my sleep I shall hear you, and not all the power of death can keep my spirit from wagging a grateful tail.

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  Dog, Regret, Lying

  Eugene O'Neill, Travis Bogard (1988). “The Unknown O'Neill: Unpublished Or Unfamiliar Writings of Eugene O'Neill”, p.434, Yale University Press

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

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  Life, Dream, Two

  Margaret Loftus Ranald, Eugene O'Neill (1984). “The Eugene O'Neill Companion”, Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press

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

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  Pursuit Of Happiness, Games, Pursuit

  Eugene O'Neill (1988). “Complete Plays: 1932-1943”

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• The only living life is in the past and future - the present is an interlude - strange interlude in which we call on past and future to bear witness that we are living.

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  Live Life, Past, Bears

  'Strange Interlude' (1928) pt. 2, act 8

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• Drunken with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you will. But be drunken.

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  Drinking, Wine, Virtue

  Eugene O'Neill, Harold Bloom (2009). “Eugene O'Neill's Long Day's Journey Into Night”, p.174, Infobase Publishing

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• The past is the present, isn’t it? It’s the future too.

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  Past, Long Day, Past Present

  Eugene O'Neill (1988). “More Stately Mansions”, p.179, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• It was a great mistake, my being born a man, I would have been much more successful as a seagull or a fish. As it is, I will always be a stranger who never feels at home, who does not really want and is not really wanted, who can never belong, who must be a little in love with death!

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  Life, Mistake, Home

  Eugene O'Neill, Harold Bloom (2009). “Eugene O'Neill's Long Day's Journey Into Night”, p.79, Infobase Publishing

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• The old - like children - talk to themselves, for they have reached that hopeless wisdom of experience which knows that though one were to cry it in the streets to multitudes, or whisper it in the kiss to one's beloved, the only ears that can ever hear one's secrets are one's own!

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  Funny, Children, Kissing

  1927 Tiberius. Lazarus Laughed, act 4, sc.1.

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