Quotes from Eugene O'Neill

One should be either sad or joyful. Contentment is a warm sty for eaters and sleepers.

A Long Day's Journey into Night

Yank: Sure! Lock me up! Put me in a cage! Dat's de on'y answer yuh know. G'wan, lock me up!Policeman: What you been doin'?Yank: Enough to gimme life for! I was born, see? Sure, dat's de charge. Write it in de blotter. I was born, get me!

The damned don't cry.

Critics I love every bone in their heads.

When you're 50 you start thinking about things you haven't thought about before. I used to think getting old was about vanity - but actually it's about losing people you love. Getting wrinkles is trivial.

Critics? I love every bone in their heads.

Everything looked and sounded unreal. Nothing was what it is. That's what I wanted - to be alone with myself in another world where truth is untrue and life can hide from itself.

Happiness hates the timid!

Man's loneliness is but his fear of life.

The child was diseased at birth - stricken with an hereditary ill that only the most vital men are able to shake off. I mean poverty - the most deadly and prevalent of all diseases.

Dalmatians are not only superior to other dogs, they are like all dogs, infinitely less stupid than men.

When men make gods, there is no God!

The child was diseased at birth, stricken with a hereditary ill that only the most vital men are able to shake off. I mean poverty-the most deadly and prevalent of all diseases.

No dog is as well bred or as well mannered or as distinguished and handsome.