Eugene O'Neill Quotes

In my beginning is my end.

A man crawls into a tomb to die. A boy crawls in to live. You think that's chance?

I came in with Halley's Comet in 1835. It is coming again next year, and I expect to go out with it. It will be the greatest disappointment of my life if I don't go out with Halley's Comet. The Almighty has said, no doubt: 'Now here are these two unaccountable freaks; they came in together, they must go out together.'

Life takes care of people in the end.

Four is actually my lucky number.

I've kind of found out that things in life come full circle anyway.

Two babies were born on the same day at the same hospital. They lay there and looked at each other. Their families came and took them away. Eighty years later, by a bizarre coincidence, they lay in the same hospital, on their deathbeds, next to each other. One of them looked at the other and said, 'So, what did you think?

So many great people are dead, and so many assholes I know are still alive. Karma's bullshit. I wish it was true, but it ain't.

No one knew where you were before you were born, but when you were born, it wasn't long before you found you'd arrived with your return ticket already punched.

Live how we can, yet die we must.

Those who live by the wall must die by the wall.

I wonder what day I shall die on - one passes year by year over one's death day, as one might pass over one's grave.

Who is it who decides that one man should live and another should die? My life wasn't worth any more than his, but he's the one who's buried, while I get to enjoy at least a few more hours above the ground. Is it chance, random and cruel, or is there some purpose or pattern to all this, even if it lies beyond our ken?" -Roran

Human beings - they go on being born and dying, dying and being born. It's kind of boring, isn't it?

In time you shall see Fate approach you In the shape of your own image in the mirror.

Nobody asked you about being born, nobody is going to ask you when the time comes for you to be taken away. Then why be worried? Birth happened to you; death will happen to you; who are you to come in between?

We do not ask to be born; and we do not ask to die. But born we are and die we must. We come into existence and we pass out of existence. And in neither case does high-handed fate await our ratification of its decree.

If you had been poor in your last life I would have asked you to be rich when you come again. But you were rich. If you had been a coward, I would have asked you to bring courage. But you were a fearless warrior. If you had died young, I would have asked you to get life. But you lived long. So I shall ask you to come again the way you came before.

The gods give to mortals not everything at the same time.

That power Which erring men call Chance.

But really, there are no coincidences. Coincidences are just other people's choices, plans you don't know about.

To fate and the strange way that it twists us all together.

Nothing happens by chance, my friend... No such thing as luck.

Folks, I'm telling you, birthing is hard and dying is mean- so get yourself a little loving in between.

Of course you have to believe in destiny; that everything is sheer chance is an intolerable notion.