Quotes by Eugene O'Neill

“Why am I afraid to live, I who love life and the beauty of flesh and the living colors of earth and sky and sea? Why am I afraid of love, I who love love?.. Why was I born without a skin, O God, th...”

“Happy roads is bunk. Weary roads is right. Get you nowhere fast. That's where I've gotnowhere. Where everyone lands in the end, even if most of the suckers won't admit it.”

“It was a great mistake, my being born a man, I would have been much more successful as a seagull or a fish. As it is, I will always be a stranger who never feels at home, who does not really want a...”

“Then in the spring something happened to me. Yes, I remember. I fell in love with James Tyrone and was so happy for time.”

“The fog was where I wanted to be. Halfway down the path you cant see this house. Youd never know it was here. Or any of the other places down the avenue. I couldnt see but a few feet ahead. I didnt...”

“There is no present or future-only the past, happening over and over again-now.”

“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.”

“I am so far from being a pessimist...on the contrary, in spite of my scars, I am tickled to death at life.”

“He thinks money spent on a home is money wasted. He's lived too much in hotels. Never the best hotels, of course. Second-rate hotels. He doesn't understand a home. He doesn't feel at home in it. An...”

“Dey's some things I don't got to be told. I kin read them in folks' eyes.”

“You're worse than decent. You're virtuous.”

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

“If dat ghost have money, I tells him never to haunt you less'n he wants to lose it!”

“The Mad Scene. Enter Ophelia!”

“To deprive the derelicts of hope is right, and to sustain them in their illusory "pipe dreams" is right also.”

“Stay passed out, that's the right dope. There ain't any cool willow trees- except you grow your own in a bottle.”

“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 to die! So I sit here, with my pride drowned on ...”

“I'm thinking 'tis only slaves do be giving heed to the day that's gone or the day to come.”

“To hell with the truth! As the history of the world proves, the truth has no bearing on anything. It's irrelevant and immaterial, as the lawyers say. The lie of a pipe dream is what gives life to t...”

“Why cant you remember your Shakespeare and forget the third-raters. Youll find what youre trying to say in him- as youll find everything else worth saying. 'We are such stuff as dreams are made on,...”