Eugene O'Neill Quotes About Life

Quotes about: Life

• 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.

  Eugene O'Neill

  Life, Vanity, Ugly

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

• Everything looked and sounded unreal. Nothing was what it is. That's what I wanted - to be alone with myself in another world where truth is untrue and life can hide from itself.

  Eugene O'Neill

  Life, Truth, World

  Eugene O'Neill, Harold Bloom (2009). “Eugene O'Neill's Long Day's Journey Into Night”, p.11, Infobase Publishing

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

  Eugene O'Neill

  Life, Lying, Long

  Travis Bogard, Eugene O'Neill (1988). “Contour in Time: The Plays of Eugene O'Neill”, p.413, Oxford University Press on Demand

• 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!

  Eugene O'Neill

  Life, Mistake, Home

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

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

  Eugene O'Neill

  Life, Wall, Mirrors

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

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

  Eugene O'Neill

  Life, Father, Dark

  Strange Interlude pt. 2, act 9 (1928)

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

  Eugene O'Neill

  Life, Dream, Two

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

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