Eugene O'Neill - Lives Quotes

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

Eugene O'Neill

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

Eugene O'Neill

Is it one wid this you'd be, Yank — black smoke from the funnels smudging the sea, smudging the decks — the bloody engines pounding and throbbing and shaking — wid divil a sight of sun or a breath of clean air — choking our lungs wid coal dust — breaking our backs and hearts in the hell of the stokehole — feeding the bloody furnace — feeding our lives along wid the coal, I'm thinking — caged in by steel from a sight of the sky like bloody apes in the Zoo!

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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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Strange interlude! Yes, our lives are merely strange dark interludes in the electrical display of God the Father!

Eugene O'Neill

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

Eugene O'Neill