Inspirational Quotes by Eugene O’Neill (American Playwright)

Eugene Gladstone O’Neill (1888–1953) was an American playwright. He had a varied profession as a seaman, gold prospector, journalist, and actor before associating himself with experimental theatre in 1916. He won the Pulitzer Prize four times and the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1936.

Born in a hotel room in New York’s Broadway district, O’Neill was the son of James O’Neill, a matinee idol and one-time famous Shakespearean actor.

O’Neill won his first Pulitzer Prize for his first full-length play, Beyond the Horizon (1920.) Among his other notable plays are the monumental trilogy Mourning Becomes Electra (1931) and The Iceman Cometh (1946.)

O’Neill’s Long Day’s Journey into Night (1956) is considered a landmark in modern theater. This semi-autobiographical tragedy portrayed two mutually destructive family relationships and won O’Neill a posthumous Pulitzer Prize.

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Man’s loneliness is but his fear of life.
—Eugene O’Neill
Topics: Loneliness

When men make gods, there is no God!
—Eugene O’Neill
Topics: God

We need above all to learn again to believe in the possibility of nobility of spirit in ourselves.
—Eugene O’Neill

One should be either sad or joyful. Contentment is a warm sty for eaters and sleepers.
—Eugene O’Neill
Topics: Contentment, Happiness

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!
—Eugene O’Neill
Topics: Aging, Age

Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.
—Eugene O’Neill
Topics: Life and Living

Happiness hates the timid! So does science!
—Eugene O’Neill

For a moment I lost myself, actually lost my life. I was set free! I belonged, without past or future, within peace and unity and a wild joy, within something greater than my own life . . . to life itself. I caught a glimpse of something greater than myself.
—Eugene O’Neill
Topics: Stars

The only living life is in the past and future—the present is an interlude—strange interlude in which we call on past and future to bear witness that we are living.
—Eugene O’Neill
Topics: The Present, Peculiarity, Oddity

There is no present or future, only the past, happening over and over again, now.
—Eugene O’Neill
Topics: Future, The Present

Happiness hates the timid.
—Eugene O’Neill
Topics: Happiness

Curiosity killed the cat, but satisfaction brought it back.
—Eugene O’Neill
Topics: Curiosity

What beastly incidents our memories insist on cherishing, the ugly, and the disgusting; the beautiful things we have to keep diaries to remember.
—Eugene O’Neill
Topics: Memory

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

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