Frases de Eugene O'Neill

Eugene Gladstone O'Neill foi um dramaturgo anarquista e socialista estadunidense. Recebeu o Nobel de Literatura de 1936 e o Prêmio Pulitzer por várias vezes.

Suas peças estão entre as primeiras a introduzir as técnicas do realismo influenciado principalmente por Anton Chekhov, Henrik Ibsen e August Strindberg. Sua dramaturgia envolve personagens que habitam as margens da sociedade, com seu comportamento desregrado, tentando manter inalcançáveis aspirações e esperanças do 'milagre norte-americano'. Tendo escrito apenas uma comédia, , todas as suas peças desenvolvem graus de tragédia pessoal e pessimismo. Sua dramaturgia influenciou reconhecidamente um importante dramaturgo brasileiro Nelson Rodrigues, além de uma de suas peças, a Imperador Jones , ter sido o ponto de partida do Teatro Experimental do Negro de Abdias do Nascimento. Wikipedia  

✵ 16. Outubro 1888 – 27. Novembro 1953   •   Outros nomes Eugene O'Neill, یوجین اونیل
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Eugene O'Neill: Frases em inglês

“There is no present or future-only the past, happening over and over again-now.”

Eugene O'Neill A Moon for the Misbegotten

Fonte: 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)
Contexto: 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)
Contexto: 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)
Fonte: Long Day's Journey Into Night
Contexto: 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

Fonte: 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)

“Yes, I remember. I fell in love with James Tyrone and was so happy for a time”

Eugene O'Neill Long Day's Journey into Night

Page 179
Long Day's Journey into Night (1955)

“What the hell was it I wanted to buy, I wonder, that was worth—Well no matter. It's a late day for regrets.”

Eugene O'Neill Long Day's Journey into Night

Act 4 http://books.google.com/books?id=YI8iwzZhl6AC&q=%22what+the+hell+was+it+I+wanted+to+buy+I+wonder+that+was+worth+well+no+matter+it's+a+late+day+for+regrets%22&pg=PT133#v=onepage
Long Day's Journey into Night (1955)

“Don't cry. The damned don't cry.”

Page 253.
Mourning Becomes Electra (1931)

“One may not give one's soul to a devil of hate — and remain forever scatheless.”

Father Baird: Act 3, Scene 1.
Days Without End (1933)

“It has been a long day. Why don't you sleep now—as you used to, remember?—for a little while.”

Eugene O'Neill Strange Interlude

Act 9 http://books.google.com/books?id=q6JEAAAAYAAJ&q=%22It+has+been+a+long+day+Why+don't+you+sleep+now+as+you+used+to+remember+for+a+little+while%22&pg=PA200#v=onepage
Strange Interlude (1928)