Contour in Time: The Plays of Eugene O'...
A source page for quotes linked to Eugene O'Neill.
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Source: The Great God Brown and Other Plays
“The Mad Scene. Enter Ophelia!”
Source: Long Day’s Journey into Night
Source: Long Day’s Journey into Night
“I'm thinking 'tis only slaves do be giving heed to the day that's gone or the day to come.”
Source: The Hairy Ape
Source: Long Day’s Journey into Night
Source: Long Day’s Journey into Night
“Dicen que existe la paz en los verdes campos del Edén. Hay que morirse para averiguarlo.”
Source: Long Day’s Journey into Night
Source: The Iceman Cometh
Source: Contour in Time: The Plays of Eugene O'Neill
“Man is born broken. He lives by mending. The Grace of God is glue.”
Source: The great god Brown: The fountain, The moon of the Caribbees, and other plays
“Life is a long drawn out lie, with a sniffling sigh at the end of it.”
Source: Contour in Time: The Plays of Eugene O'Neill
“I will be an artist or nothing!”
Source: Selected Letters of Eugene O'Neill
“Happiness hates the timid. So does science.”
Source: Three plays
“One should be either sad or joyful. Contentment is a warm sty for eaters and sleepers.”
Source: Complete Plays: 1920-1931
“I knew it. I knew it. Born in a hotel room - and God damn it - died in a hotel room.”
“Curiosity killed the cat, but satisfaction brought it back.”
Source: Plays:
“The past is the present, isn’t it? It’s the future too.”
Source: More Stately Mansions
Source: Eugene O'Neill's Long Day's Journey Into Night
“No dog is as well bred or as well mannered or as distinguished and handsome.”
Source: More Stately Mansions
Source: Nine Plays
Source: Conversations with Eugene O'Neill
“Those who succeed and do not push on to greater failure are the spiritual middle-classers.”
Source: The Strategy of Survival: Human Significance of O'Neill's Plays
Source: The Unknown O'Neill: Unpublished Or Unfamiliar Writings of Eugene O'Neill
Source: The Hairy Ape
“The lie of a pipe dream is what gives life to the whole misbegotten mad lot of us, drunk or sober.”
Source: Contour in Time: The Plays of Eugene O'Neill
“Our lives are merely strange dark interludes in the electric display of God the Father.”
Source: Three plays
Source: Conversations with Eugene O'Neill
“Drunken with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you will. But be drunken.”
Source: Eugene O'Neill's Long Day's Journey Into Night
Source: Eugene O'Neill, comments on the drama and the theater: a source book
Source: The Hairy Ape
“One may not give one's soul to a devil of hate - and remain forever scatheless.”
Source: Complete Plays: 1932-1943
“We are where centuries only count as seconds, and after a thousand lives, our eyes begin to open.”
Source: Plays:
Source: Complete Plays: 1932-1943
“God gave us mouths that close and ears that don't... that should tell us something.”