146 Quotes by Eugene O'Neill

LAVINIA: I want to feel love! Love is all beautiful! I never used to know that! I was a fool! We'll be married soon... We'll make an island for ourselves on land and we'll have children and love them and teach them to love life so that they can never be possessed by hate and death!

Life is for each man a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

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

Obsessed by a fairy tale, we spend our lives searching for a magic door and a lost kingdom of peace.

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.

Man's loneliness is but his fear of life.

When men make gods, there is no God!

Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

The old -- like children -- talk to themselves, for they have reached that hopeless wisdom of experience which knows that though one were to cry it in the streets to multitudes, or whisper it in the kiss to one's beloved, the only ears that can ever hear one's secrets are one's own!