Eugene O'Neill

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

“Censorship of anything, at any time, in any place, on whatever pretense, has always been and always will be the last resort of the boob and the bigot.”

“נולד בבית מלון, ולעזאזל, מת שם.”

“החירות דורשת יוזמה, אומץ לב וכושר להחליט מה משמעותם של החיים בעבורך.”

“איש אינו יכול לתת את נפשו לשטן השנאה, ולהישאר ללא פגע לנצח.”

“אני אוהב את הערפל; הוא מסתיר אותך מן העולם, ואת העולם ממך.”

“אני שונא רופאים! הם יעשו הכול כדי שתשוב אליהם.”

“איש אינו יכול להימנע ממה שהחיים עושים מאתנו.”

“רק העבר שבו היית מאושר הוא אמיתי.”

“אני הורג את הכאב.”

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

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

“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!”

“He thinks money spent on a home is money wasted. He's lived too much in hotels. Never the best hotels, of course. Second-rate hotels. He doesn't understand a home. He doesn't feel at home in it. And yet, he wants a home. He's even proud of having this shabby place. He loves it here.”

“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.”

“Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.”

“I love every bone in their heads.”

“Man's loneliness is but his fear of life.”

“When men make gods, there is no God!”