Sean O'Casey
Sean O'Casey
Seán O'Caseywas an Irish dramatist and memoirist. A committed socialist, he was the first Irish playwright of note to write about the Dublin working classes...
NationalityIrish
ProfessionPlaywright
Date of Birth30 March 1880
CountryIreland
happiness secret monotony
The secret to happiness is to find a congenial monotony.
Politics has slain its thousands, but religion has slain its tens of thousands.
life-is invitations
To me life is simply an invitation to live.
stars hair serenity
Here, with whitened hair, desires failing, strength ebbing out of him, with the sun gone down and with only the serenity and the calm warning of the evening star left to him, he drank to Life, to all it had been, to what it was, to what it would be. Hurrah!
wall squares cells
You cannot put a rope around the neck of an idea: you can not put an idea up against a barracks-square wall and riddle it with bullets: you cannot confine it in the strongest prison cell that your slaves could ever build.
atom became eden flame garden star steel sword
The flame from the angel's sword in the garden of Eden has been catalyzed into the atom bomb; God's thunderbolt became blunted, so man's thunderbolt has become the steel star of destruction.
hilarious laughter life loud man wine worth
Laughter is wine for the soul-laughter soft, or loud and deep, tinged through with seriousness. the hilarious declaration made by man that life is worth living.
new-york night men
The wide wonder of Broadway is disconsolate in the daytime; but gaudily glorious at night, with a milling crowd filling sidewalk and roadway, silent, going up, going down, between upstanding banks of brilliant lights, each building braided and embossed with glowing, many-coloured bulbs of man-rayed luminance. A glowing valley of the shadow of life. The strolling crowd went slowly by through the kinematically divine thoroughfare of New York.
believe man
No man is so old as to believe he cannot live one more year.