Life is perhaps best regarded as a bad dream between two awakenings. — Eugene O'Neill Awakening Copy Share Image
One should either be sad or joyful. Contentment is a warm sty for eaters and sleepers. — Eugene O'Neill Contentment Copy Share Image
There is no present or future-only the past, happening over and over again-now. — Eugene O'Neill Copy Share Image
One may not give one's soul to a devil of hate - and remain forever scatheless. — Eugene O'Neill Devil Copy Share Image
We fought so long against small things that we became small ourselves. — Eugene O'Neill Copy Share Image
“Your father goes out. He meets his friends in barrooms or at the Club. You and Jamie have the boys you know.… — Eugene O'Neill Father Copy Share Image
What beastly incidents our memories insist on cherishing, the ugly, and the disgusting; the beautiful things we have to keep diaries to… — Eugene O'Neill Copy Share Image
Everything looked and sounded unreal. Nothing was what it is. That's what I wanted - to be alone with myself in another… — Eugene O'Neill Another world Copy Share Image
A game of secret, cunning stratagems, in which only the fools who are fated to lose reveal their true aims or motives… — Eugene O'Neill Copy Share Image
“Well, you wanted me to be a hero in blue, so you better be resigned! Murdering doesn’t improve one’s manners!” — Eugene O'Neill Manners Copy Share Image
You said they had found the secret of happiness because they had never heard that love can be a sin. — Eugene O'Neill Copy Share Image
“You're lying to yourself again. You wanted to get rid of them. Their contempt and disgust aren't pleasant company. You're glad they're… — Eugene O'Neill Business Copy Share Image
It is Mystery - the mystery any one man or woman can feel but not understand as the meaning of any event… — Eugene O'Neill Accidents Copy Share Image
“Because any fool knows that to work hard at something you want to accomplish is the only way to be happy. But… — Eugene O'Neill Copy Share Image
When you're 50 you start thinking about things you haven't thought about before. I used to think getting old was about vanity… — Eugene O'Neill Age Copy Share Image
If a person is to get the meaning of life he must learn to like the facts about himself -- ugly as… — Eugene O'Neill Copy Share Image
How thick the fog is. I can't see the road. All the people in the world could pass by and I would… — Eugene O'Neill Dark Copy Share Image
It was a great mistake, my being born a man, I would have been much more successful as a seagull or a… — Eugene O'Neill Copy Share Image
I spent a year in Professor Baker's famous class at Harvard. There, too, I learned some things that were useful to me-particularly… — Eugene O'Neill Copy Share Image
“It wasn't the fog I minded, Cathleen. I really love fog. [...] It hides you from the world and the world from… — Eugene O'Neill Fog Copy Share Image
Dogs...do not ruin their sleep worrying about how to keep the objects they have, and to obtain the objects they have not.… — Eugene O'Neill Animal Copy Share Image
“LARRY--(with increasing bitter intensity, more as if he were fighting with himself than with Hickey) I'm afraid to live, am I?--and even… — Eugene O'Neill Drama Copy Share Image
“And if sometimes, on the stairs of a palace, or on the green side of a ditch, or in the dreary solitude… — Eugene O'Neill Copy Share Image
Why can’t you remember your Shakespeare and forget the third-raters. You’ll find what you’re trying to say in him- as you’ll find… — Eugene O'Neill Beautiful Copy Share Image
“Now look here, Smithers. They's two kind's of stealing. They's the small kind, like what you does, and the big kind, like… — Eugene O'Neill Hall of fame Copy Share Image
“The trouble with you, I think, is you are still too dependent on others. You expect too much from outside you and… — Eugene O'Neill Copy Share Image
“In plain words, you’ve got to make up your mind to study whatever you undertake, and concentrate your mind on it, and… — Eugene O'Neill Education Copy Share Image
“For de small stealing dey puts you in jail, soon or late. But for de big stealing dey puts yo' picture in… — Eugene O'Neill Hall of fame Copy Share Image
“If that ghost have money I tells him never to haunt you -- less'n he wants to lose it!” — Eugene O'Neill Money Copy Share Image
Our lives are merely strange dark interludes in the electric display of God the Father. — Eugene O'Neill Dark Copy Share Image
Drunken with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you will. But be drunken. — Eugene O'Neill Character Copy Share Image