“The past is the present, isn’t it? It’s the future too.”
-Long Day’s Journey Into Night quotes by Eugene O’Neill
“None of us can help the things life has done to us. They’re done before you realize it, and once they’re done they make you do other things until at last everything comes between you and what you’d like to be, and you’ve lost your true self forever.”
-Long Day’s Journey Into Night, Eugene O’Neill
“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.”
-Long Day’s Journey Into Night, Eugene O’Neill
“Stammering is the native eloquence of us fog people.”
-Long Day’s Journey Into Night, Eugene O’Neill
“You can’t help being what the past has made you. Any more than you can help the future. But you can know what the past has made you. Because that’s what you are. That’s what you are, not anybody else.”
-Long Day’s Journey Into Night, Eugene O’Neill
“Forget? Hell! I’ll never forget! I’ll never be able to forgive myself!”
-Long Day’s Journey Into Night quotes by Eugene O’Neill
“You really must not watch me all the time, James… it makes me self-conscious.”
-Long Day’s Journey Into Night, Eugene O’Neill
“I never lied… once upon a time. Now I have to lie, especially to myself.”
-Long Day’s Journey Into Night, Eugene O’Neill
“I hope, sometimes, without meaning it, I will take an overdose.”
-Long Day’s Journey Into Night, Eugene O’Neill
“It kills the pain. You go back until at last you are beyond its reach. Only the past when you were happy is real.”
-Long Day’s Journey Into Night, Eugene O’Neill
“I haven’t touched a piano in so many years. I couldn’t play with such crippled fingers, even if I wanted to.”
-Long Day’s Journey Into Night quotes by Eugene O’Neill
“For the love of God, why couldn’t you have the strength to keep on?”
-Long Day’s Journey Into Night, Eugene O’Neill
“Poor hands! You’d never believe it, but they were once one of my good points, along with my hair and eyes, and I had a fine figure, too.”
-Long Day’s Journey Into Night, Eugene O’Neill
“It’s the foghorn I hate. It won’t let you alone. It keeps reminding you, and warning you, and calling you back.”
-Long Day’s Journey Into Night, Eugene O’Neill
“The only way is to make yourself not care.”
-Long Day’s Journey Into Night, Eugene O’Neill
“Alone… in another world where truth is untrue and life can hide from itself.”
-Long Day’s Journey Into Night quotes by Eugene O’Neill
“Facts don’t mean a thing… What you want to believe, that’s the only truth!”
-Long Day’s Journey Into Night, Eugene O’Neill
“You have to make allowances in this damned family or go nuts!”
-Long Day’s Journey Into Night, Eugene O’Neill
“It was a great mistake, my being born a man. I would have been much more successful as a sea gull or a fish.”
-Long Day’s Journey Into Night, Eugene O’Neill
“It’s pretty horrible to see her the way she must be now.”
-Long Day’s Journey Into Night, Eugene O’Neill
“What the hell was it I wanted to buy… that was worth—Well, no matter.”
-Long Day’s Journey Into Night quotes by Eugene O’Neill
“You ought to be proud you’re his son! He may have his faults. Who hasn’t? But he’s worked hard all his life.”
-Long Day’s Journey Into Night, Eugene O’Neill
“There was no damned romance in our poverty.”
-Long Day’s Journey Into Night, Eugene O’Neill
“If he’s ever had a loftier dream than whores and whiskey, he’s never shown it.”
-Long Day’s Journey Into Night, Eugene O’Neill
“We are such stuff as manure is made on, so let’s drink up and forget it.”
-Long Day’s Journey Into Night, Eugene O’Neill
