Best Quotes from Long Day's Journey Into Night by Eugene O'Neill with Page Numbers

"What’s the joke, I wonder?"

"You mustn't let it upset you, Mary. Remember you've got to take care of yourself, too."

"Well, it's better than spending the summer in a New York hotel, isn't it? And this town's not so bad. I like it well enough. I suppose because it's the only home we've had."

"Being together here is what counts. We have to make the best of what life gives us."

"You know how it is, I can't forget the past. I can't help being suspicious. Any more than you can."

"We must help her, Jamie, in every way we can!"

"I can't tell you the deep happiness it gives me, darling, to see you as you've been since you came back to us."

"God, you can't beat him!"

"But I suppose you're remembering I've promised before on my word of honor."

"There's nothing like the first after-breakfast cigar, if it’s a good one, and this new lot have the right mellow flavor."

It's wrong to blame your brother. He can't help being what the past has made him. Any more than your father can.

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.

I want to take care of you.

One small drink won't hurt Edmund. It might be good for him, if it gives him an appetite.

You ought to show more consideration.

But I suppose life has made him like that, and he can’t help it.

I've been as happy as hell because I'd really begun to believe that this time—

It’s really funny, when you come to think of it. He’s a peculiar man.

You mustn't cough like that. It's bad for your throat.

A real home one is never lonely.

I don't know what you're referring to. But I do know you should be the last one- Right after I returned from the sanatorium, you began to be ill.

The past is the present, isn't it? It's the future, too.

You mustn't be offended, dear. I wasn't offended when you gave me the automobile. I knew you didn't mean to humiliate me.

For God's sake, don't dig up what's long forgotten. If you're that far gone in the past already, when it's only the beginning of the afternoon, what will you be tonight?

Let's remember only that, and not try to understand what we cannot understand, or help things that cannot be helped.

You will hardly want to go there with me. You'd be so ashamed.

Promise me, dear, you won't believe I made you an excuse.

I will find it again—some day when you're all well, and I see you healthy and happy and successful.

It's so lonely here.

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.

But even they can't touch me now.

Only the past when you were happy is real.

I haven't touched a piano in so many years.

I would have sent her to Europe to study after I graduated from the Convent.

It has made me forgive so many other things.

It's such a pity. Poor Jamie! It's hard to understand.

It's hard to believe, seeing Jamie as he is now.

I want to remember only the happy part of the past.

Ah! Now you're talking!

That's a grand curtain.

You'll live to learn the value of a dollar.

I think they have no portion in us after we pass the gate.

It's what we want to believe that's the only truth!

We're all crazy. What do we want with sense?

There is no help, for all these things are so, and all the world is bitter as a tear.

But who am I to feel superior? I've done the same damned thing.

It's late day for regrets.

I had life where I wanted it!