Eugene O Neill Quotes

“Then in the spring something happened to me. Yes, I remember. I fell in love with James Tyrone and was so happy for time.”
― Eugene O'Neill, Long Day’s Journey into Night

“LAVINIA: He made me feel for the first time in my life that everything about love could be sweet and natural... I have a right to love!”
― Eugene O'Neill, Mourning Becomes Electra

“LAVINIA: I love everything that grows simply-- up toward the sun-- everything that's straight and strong! I hate what's warped and twists and eats into itself and dies for a lifetime in shadow...”
― Eugene O'Neill, Mourning Becomes Electra

“LAVINIA: I want to feel love! Love is all beautiful! I never used to know that! I was a fool! We'll be married soon... We'll make an island for ourselves on land and we'll have children and love them and teach them to love life so that they can never be possessed by hate and death!”
― Eugene O'Neill, Mourning Becomes Electra

“Ryanna Raines: And why did you choose "Desire Under the Elms?"

Jordan De Carlo: It's ferocious. A full-throttle rage machine. Rage over land, over family, over sexual lust.”
― L.R. Dorn, With a Kiss We Die