Eugene O'Neill Short Quotes

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Man's loneliness is but his fear of life.

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DARRELL: Happiness hates the timid! So does Science!

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Born in a goddam hotel room and dying in a hotel room!

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

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

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

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Gimme a whiskey—ginger ale on the side. And don't be stingy, baby.

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

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Yes, I remember. I fell in love with James Tyrone and was so happy for a time

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We's all poor nuts and things happen, and we yust get mixed in wrong, that's all.

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

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

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

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

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It has been a long day. Why don't you sleep now—as you used to, remember?—for a little while.

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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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The lie of a pipe dream is what gives life to the whole misbegotten mad lot of us, drunk or sober.

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

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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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What the hell was it I wanted to buy, I wonder, that was worth—Well no matter. It's a late day for regrets.

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Life is perhaps most wisely regarded as a bad dream between two awakenings, and every day is a life in miniature.

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It kills the pain. You go back until at last you are beyond its reach. Only the past when you were happy is real.

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

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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.

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

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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...

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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 we are living.

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It's queer they'd be allowin' the sick ones to read books when I'll bet it's the same lazy readin' in the house bought the half of them down with the consumption itself.

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Take some wood and canvas and nails and things. Build yourself a theater, a stage, light it, learn about it. When you've done that you will probably know how to write a play.

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