Юджин О’Нил цитаты
Юджин О’Нил
Дата рождения: 16. Октябрь 1888
Дата смерти: 27. Ноябрь 1953
Другие имена: یوجین اونیل, Eugene O'Neill
Юджи́н Гла́дстон О’Ни́л — американский драматург, лауреат Нобелевской премии по литературе 1936 года, лауреат Пулицеровской премии . Wikipedia
Цитаты Юджин О’Нил
„There is no present or future-only the past, happening over and over again-now.“
— Eugene O'Neill, A Moon for the Misbegotten
Источник: A Moon for the Misbegotten
„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)
Контексте: 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!
„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)
Контексте: 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!
„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)
Источник: Long Day's Journey Into Night
Контексте: 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.
„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
Источник: 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
Источник: 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)
Источник: Long Day's Journey Into Night
„It kills the pain. You go back until at last you are beyond its reach. Only the past when you were happy is real.“
— Eugene O'Neill, Long Day's Journey into Night
Page 107 (Act 3)
Long Day's Journey into Night (1955)
„I haven't touched a piano in so many years. I couldn't play with such crippled fingers, even if I wanted to. For a time after my marriage I tried to keep up my music. But it was hopeless. One-night stands, cheap hotels, dirty trains, leaving children, never having a home — [She stares at her hands with fascinated disgust. ] See, Cathleen, how ugly they are! So maimed and crippled! You would think they'd been through some horrible accident! [She gives a strange little laugh. ] So they have, come to think of it. [She suddenly thrusts her hands behind her back. ] I won't look at them. They're worse than the foghorn for reminding me — [Then with defiant self-assurance. ] But even they can't touch me now. [She brings her hands from behind her back and deliberately stares at them — calmly. ] They're far away. I see them, but the pain has gone.“
— Eugene O'Neill, Long Day's Journey into Night
Page 106 (Act 3)
Long Day's Journey into Night (1955)
