Eugene O'Neill quotes - page 2

It has been a long day. Why don't you sleep now-as you used to, remember?-for a little while. (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! View quote
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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. View quote
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We need above all to learn again to believe in the possibility of nobility of spirit in ourselves. View quote
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We fought so long against small things that we became small ourselves. View quote
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Writing is my vacation from living. View quote
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Life is perhaps best regarded as a bad dream between two awakenings. View quote
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You said they had found the secret of happiness because they had never heard that love can be a sin. View quote
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I will be an artist or nothing! View quote
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Drunken with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you will. But be drunken. View quote
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When men make gods, there is no God! (Eugene O'Neill)
The sea hates a coward. View quote
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Yes, I remember. I fell in love with James Tyrone and was so happy for a time. View quote
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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. View quote
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Don't cry. The damned don't cry. View quote
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A credulous, religious-minded fool, as I've pointed out! And he carried his credulity into the next period of his life, where he believed in one social or philosophical Ism after another, always on the trail of Truth! He was never courageous enough to face what he really knew was true, that there is no truth for men, that human life in unimportant and meaningless. No. He was always grasping at some absurd new faith to find an excuse for going on! View quote
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Or rather, I inherited the acquired trait of the by-product, wealth, but none of the energy, none of the strength of the steel that made it. I am sired by gold and damned by it, as they say at the race track - damned in more ways than one. View quote
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Censorship of anything, at any time, in any place, on whatever pretense, has always been and always will be the last resort of the boob and the bigot. View quote
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They have lost the ideal of the Land of the Free. Freedom demands initiative, courage, the need to decide what life must mean to oneself. To them, that is terror. View quote
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I listen to people talking about this universal breakdown we are in and I marvel at their stupid cowardice. View quote
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It wasn't the fog I minded, Cathleen. I really love fog. It hides you from the world and the world from you. You feel that everything has changed, and nothing is what it seemed to be. No one can find or touch you any more. Its the foghorn I hate. It won't let you alone. It keeps reminding you, and warning you, and calling you back. (Eugene O'Neill)
You're worse than decent. You're virtuous. View quote
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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. View quote
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We have electrocuted your God. Don't be a fool. View quote
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