Character Quote by Eugene O'Neill

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

— Eugene O'Neill

We need above all to learn again to believe in the possibility of nobility of spirit in ourselves.

— Eugene O'Neill

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

— Eugene O'Neill

“You can't be too careful about work. It's the most dangerous habit known to medical science.”

— Eugene O'Neill

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

— Eugene O'Neill

“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 more afraid…

— Eugene O'Neill

The child was diseased at birth, stricken with a hereditary ill that only the most vital men are able to shake off. I mean…

— Eugene O'Neill

“Now I have to lie, especially to myself. But how can you understand, when I don't myself. I've never understood anything about it, except…

— Eugene O'Neill

We are such things as rubbish is made of, so let's drink up and forget it.

— Eugene O'Neill

Curiosity killed the cat, but satisfaction brought it back.

— Eugene O'Neill

How thick the fog is. I can't see the road. All the people in the world could pass by and I would never know.…

— Eugene O'Neill

I hate doctors! They'll do anything... to keep you coming to them. They'll sell their souls. What's worse, they'll sell yours, and you never…

— Eugene O'Neill