Eugene O'Neill

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

Writing is my vacation from living.

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.

I am so far from being a pessimist...on the contrary, in spite of my scars, I am tickled to death at life.

I have had my dance with Folly, nor do I shirk the blame; I have sipped the so-called Wine of Life and paid the price of shame; But I know that I shall find surcease, the rest my spirit craves, Where the rainbows play in the flying spray, 'Mid the keen salt kiss of the waves.

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

Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors.

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!

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

Man's loneliness is but his fear of life.

Dey's some things I don't got to be told. I kin read them in folks' eyes.

Why am I afraid to dance, I who love music and rhythm and grace and song and laughter? Why am I afraid to live, I who love life and the beauty of flesh and the living colors of the earth and sky and sea? Why am I afraid to love, I who love love?