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Eugene O'Neill quotes about life

American Playwright October 16, 1888 – November 27, 1953

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Why am I afraid to dance, I who love music and rhythm and grace and song and laughter? Why am I afraid to live, I who love life and the beauty of flesh and the living colors of the earth and sky and sea? Why am I afraid to love, I who love love? Eugene O'Neill
Why can’t you remember your Shakespeare and forget the third-raters. You’ll find what you’re trying to say in him- as you’ll find everything else worth saying. 'We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with sleep.'' - 'Fine! That’s beautiful. But I wasn’t trying to say that. We are such stuff as manure is made on, so let’s drink up and forget it. That’s more my idea. Eugene O'Neill
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 the whole misbegotten mad lot of us, drunk or sober. Eugene O'Neill
Eugene O'Neill quote: "HOGAN-No, I wouldn't think it, but my motto in life is never..."
HOGAN-No, I wouldn't think it, but my motto in life is never trust anyone too far, not even myself. Eugene O'Neill
None of us can help the things life has done to us. They’re done before you realize it, and once they’re done they make you do other things until at last everything comes between you and what you’d like to be, and you’ve lost your true self forever. Eugene O'Neill
I have had my dance with Folly, nor do I shirk the blame; I have sipped the so-called Wine of Life and paid the price of shame; But I know that I shall find surcease, the rest my spirit craves, Where the rainbows play in the flying spray,'Mid the keen salt kiss of the waves. Eugene O'Neill
Eugene O'Neill quote: "I am so far from being a pessimist...on the contrary, in spite..."
I am so far from being a pessimist...on the contrary, in spite of my scars, I am tickled to death at life. Eugene O'Neill
Eugene O'Neill quote: "Man's loneliness is but his fear of life."
Man's loneliness is but his fear of life. Eugene O'Neill
Eugene O'Neill quote: "Life is for each man a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors."
Life is for each man a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors. Eugene O'Neill
Eugene O'Neill quote: "Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors."
Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors. Eugene O'Neill

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