Quotes by Eugene O'Neill

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

The child was diseased at birth, stricken with a hereditary ill that only the most vital men are able to shake off. I mean poverty - the most deadly and prevalent of all diseases.

I knew it. I knew it. Born in a hotel room - and God damn it - died in a hotel room.

A man's work is in danger of deteriorating when he thinks he has found the one best formula for doing it. If he thinks that, he is likely to feel that all he needs is merely to go on repeating himself . . . so long as a person is searching for better ways of doing his work, he is fairly safe.

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