146 Quotes by Eugene O'Neill

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

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.

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 and is not really wanted, who can never belong, who must be a little in love with death!

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, that I must wear armor in order to touch or to be touched?

Man is born broken. He lives by mending. The grace of God is glue.

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

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

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

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