~ Eugene O'Neill Quotes ~

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Eugene O'Neill Quotes


An American playwright, and Nobel laureate in Literature.
Eugene Gladstone O'Neill (16 October 1888 – 27 November 1953) was an American playwright, and Nobel laureate in Literature. His poetically titled plays were among the first to introduce into American drama techniques of realism earlier associated with Russian playwright Anton Chekhov, Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen, and Swedish playwright August Strindberg. His plays were among the first to include speeches in American vernacular and involve characters on the fringes of society, engaging in depraved behavior, where they struggle to maintain their hopes and aspirations, but ultimately slide into disillusionment and despair. O'Neill wrote only one well-known comedy (Ah, Wilderness!). Nearly all of his other plays involve some degree of tragedy and personal pessimism.

Here are some famous quotes by Eugene O'Neill.

Happiness hates the timid!

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Man's loneliness is but his fear of life.

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

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

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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.

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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.