Eugene O'Neill Quotes

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• 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…
• No dog is as well bred or as well mannered or as distinguished and handsome.
• A game of secret, cunning stratagems, in which only the fools who are fated to lose reveal their true aims or motives - even to…
• What beastly incidents our memories insist on cherishing, the ugly, and the disgusting; the beautiful things we have to keep diaries to remember.
• A man's work is in danger of deteriorating when he thinks he has found the one best formula for doing it. If he thinks that,…
• Those who succeed and do not push on to greater failure are the spiritual middle-classers.
• 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…
• Two days ago we waded through the mud out to this grave beneath the pines at the foot of the hill to place a Christmas…
• You seem to be going in for sincerity today. It isn't becoming to you, really — except as an obvious pose. Be as artificial as…
• The lie of a pipe dream is what gives life to the whole misbegotten mad lot of us, drunk or sober.
• Our lives are merely strange dark interludes in the electric display of God the Father.
• Age's terms of peace, after the long interlude of war with life, have still to be concluded-Youth must keep decently away-so many old wounds may…
• When men make gods, there is no God!
• If a person is to get the meaning of life he must learn to like the facts about himself -- ugly as they may seem…
• Drunken with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you will. But be drunken.
• It is Mystery - the mystery any one man or woman can feel but not understand as the meaning of any event - or accident…
• 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…
• Man's loneliness is but his fear of life.
• Obsessed by a fairy tale, we spend our lives searching for a magic door and a lost kingdom of peace.
• Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

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