III. Famous Quotes from  Long Day's Journey Into Night

 “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

   “我们大家无法抗拒生活,在你还没有意识到的时候, 事情就发生了, 你就顺着走下去, 直到有一天你发现在你自己和理想之间一条鸿沟已经筑起, 可这时你已经失去了一个真实的自我。” 

  “Be always drunken. Nothing else matters: that is the only question. If you would not feel the horrible burden of Time weighing on your shoulders and crushing you to the earth, be drunken continually.

     “永远沉醉吧,这是唯一要紧的事,别的什么都无所谓。要是你不想感受到时代的可怕重负,把你压垮在地, 碾为尘泥, 那就该长醉不醒。”

  “The past is the present, isn’t it? It is the future, too. We all try to lie out of that but life won’t let us. ”

   “过去就是现在, 难道不是吗? 过去也是未来。我们不愿承认这一点, 可是生活让我们不得不承认。”

“It was a great mistake, my being born a man, I would have been much more successful as a seagull or a fish. As it is, I will always be a stranger who never feels at home, who does not really want and is not really wanted, who can never belong, who must be a little in love with death!” 

                                                       ----Eugene O'Neill, Long Day's Journey into Night

      我来到世上做人真是个大错。要是作只海鸥或做条鱼,我一定会生活得更好。作为一个人,我将永远感到自己是个局外人,找不到一个安身的家。我不需要什么,也不被人需要,这样的人永远找不到归宿,永远对死亡抱着一丝眷恋。

       “一个人只有在达不到目的时才会有值得为之生、为之死的理想, 从而才能找到自我。在绝望的境地里继续抱有希望的人, 比别人更接近星光灿烂、彩虹高挂的天堂。”