Frasi di Eugene Gladstone O`Neill
Eugene Gladstone O`Neill
Data di nascita: 16. Ottobre 1888
Data di morte: 27. Novembre 1953
Altri nomi: یوجین اونیل, Eugene O'Neill
Eugene Gladstone O'Neill è stato un drammaturgo statunitense, premio Nobel per la letteratura nel 1936 e figura fondamentale del teatro negli USA.
Frasi Eugene Gladstone O`Neill
„I listen to people talking about this universal breakdown we are in and I marvel at their stupid cowardice.“
John: Act 3, Scene 2.
Days Without End (1933)
Contesto: I listen to people talking about this universal breakdown we are in and I marvel at their stupid cowardice. It is so obvious that they deliberately cheat themselves because their fear of change won't let them face the truth. They don't want to understand what has happened to them. All they want is to start the merry-go-round of blind greed all over again. They no longer know what they want this country to be, what they want it to become, where they want it to go. It has lost all meaning for them except as pig-wallow. And so their lives as citizens have no beginnings, no ends. They have lost the ideal of the Land of the Free. Freedom demands initiative, courage, the need to decide what life must mean to oneself. To them, that is terror. They explain away their spiritual cowardice by whining that the time for individualism is past, when it is their courage to possess their own souls which is dead — and stinking! No, they don't want to be free. Slavery means security — of a kind, the only kind they have courage for. It means they need not to think. They have only to obey orders from owners who are, in turn, their slaves!
„They have lost the ideal of the Land of the Free. Freedom demands initiative, courage, the need to decide what life must mean to oneself. To them, that is terror.“
John: Act 3, Scene 2.
Days Without End (1933)
Contesto: I listen to people talking about this universal breakdown we are in and I marvel at their stupid cowardice. It is so obvious that they deliberately cheat themselves because their fear of change won't let them face the truth. They don't want to understand what has happened to them. All they want is to start the merry-go-round of blind greed all over again. They no longer know what they want this country to be, what they want it to become, where they want it to go. It has lost all meaning for them except as pig-wallow. And so their lives as citizens have no beginnings, no ends. They have lost the ideal of the Land of the Free. Freedom demands initiative, courage, the need to decide what life must mean to oneself. To them, that is terror. They explain away their spiritual cowardice by whining that the time for individualism is past, when it is their courage to possess their own souls which is dead — and stinking! No, they don't want to be free. Slavery means security — of a kind, the only kind they have courage for. It means they need not to think. They have only to obey orders from owners who are, in turn, their slaves!
„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?“
— Eugene O'Neill, The Great God Brown and Other Plays
Origine: The Great God Brown and Other Plays
„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.“
— Eugene O'Neill, Long Day's Journey into Night
Page 63 (Act 2, Scene 1)
Long Day's Journey into Night (1955)
Origine: Long Day's Journey Into Night
Contesto: But I suppose life has made him like that, and he can't help it. 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.
„There is no present or future-only the past, happening over and over again-now.“
— Eugene O'Neill, A Moon for the Misbegotten
Origine: A Moon for the Misbegotten
„Man is born broken. He lives by mending. The grace of God is glue!“
— Eugene O'Neill, The Great God Brown
Act 4, Scene 1
The Great God Brown (1926)
„We are such things as rubbish is made of, so let's drink up and forget it.“
— Eugene O'Neill, Long Day's Journey into Night
Origine: Long Day's Journey Into Night
„To hell with the truth! As the history of the world proves, the truth has no bearing on anything. It's irrelevant and immaterial, as the lawyers say. The lie of a pipe dream is what gives life to the whole misbegotten mad lot of us, drunk or sober.“
— Eugene O'Neill, The Iceman Cometh
Origine: The Iceman Cometh
„It wasn't the fog I minded, Cathleen. I really love fog. It hides you from the world and the world from you. You feel that everything has changed, and nothing is what it seemed to be. No one can find or touch you any more. Its the foghorn I hate. It won't let you alone. It keeps reminding you, and warning you, and calling you back.“
— Eugene O'Neill, Long Day's Journey into Night
Page 100-101 (Act 3)
Long Day's Journey into Night (1955)
Origine: Long Day's Journey Into Night
