Eugene O'Neill Quotes
You seem to be going in for sincerity today. It isn't becoming to you, really — except as an obvious pose. Be as artificial as you are, I advise. There's a sort of sincerity in that, you know. And, after all, you must confess you like that better.
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My wife said to me... you never understood what we were going through back home, did you? And I didn't. And I have to confess that.
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My pessimism goes to the point of suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.
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A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.
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I'm into sincerity in music and sincerity in art. If it doesn't feel true, I don't want to do it. Things that are too dramatic scare me. I think that's why I don't always fit into the world of performing arts.
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If knowledge and foresight are too penetrating and deep, unify them with ease and sincerity.
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I am ashamed of confessing that I have nothing to confess.
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Very often, I confess, the teller of dreams bores me. His dream could perhaps interest me if it were frankly worked on. But to hear a glorious tale of his insanity! I have not yet clarified, psychoanalytically, this boredom during the recital of other people's dreams. Perhaps I have retained the stiffness of a rationalist. I do not follow the tale of justified incoherence docilely. I always suspect that part of the stupidities being recounted are invented.
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If the Spirit of God detects anything in you that is wrong, He doesn't ask you to make it right; He only asks you to accept the light of truth, and then He will make it right. A child of the light will confess sin instantly and stand completely open before God. But a child of the darkness will say, “Oh, I can explain that.
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Sincerity is like traveling on a plain, beaten road, which commonly brings a man sooner to his journey's end than by-ways, in which men often lose themselves.
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To me the worst thing seems to be a school principally to work with methods of fear, force and artificial authority. Such treatment destroys the sound sentiments, the sincerity and the self-confidence of pupils and produces a subservient subject.
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Sincerity has to do with the connexion between our words and thoughts, and not between our beliefs and actions.
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We must remain as close to the flowers, the grass, and the butterflies as the child is who is not yet so much taller than they are. We adults, on the other hand, have outgrown them and have to lower ourselves to stoop down to them. It seems to me that the grass hates us when we confess our love for it. Whoever would partake of all good things must understand how to be small at times.
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Sincerity is the way of heaven.
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Sincerity is the end and beginning of things; without sincerity there would be nothing.
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I had so often sung 'Deutschland u:ber Alles' and shouted 'Heil' at the top of my lungs, that it seemed to me almost a belated act of grace to be allowed to stand as a witness in the divine court of the eternal judge and proclaim the sincerity of this conviction.
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Men are so completely fools by necessity that he is but a fool in a higher strain of folly who does not confess his foolishness.
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Florence Farr once said to me, If we could say to ourselves, with sincerity, 'this passing moment is as good as any I shall ever know,' we could die upon the instant and be united with God.
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I can only say with deeper sincerity and fuller significance what I have always said in theory - Wait God's will.
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I advise that pregnant women do not come to my concerts.
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To attempt to advise conceited people is like whistling against the wind.
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No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness.
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I felt like an alien. I always felt like I never belonged to any group that I wanted to belong to.
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You seem to be going in for sincerity today. It isn't becoming to you, really — except as an obvious pose. Be as artificial as you are, I advise. There's a sort of sincerity in that, you know. And, after all, you must confess you like that better.
