Seán O'Casey Quotes

There is a deeper life than the life we see and hear with the open ear and the open eye and this is the life important and the life everlasting.

Laughter is wine for the soul — laughter soft, or loud and deep, tinged through with seriousness. Comedy and tragedy step through life together, arm in arm, all along, out along, down along lea. A laugh is a great natural stimulator, a pushful entry into life; and once we can laugh, we can live. It is the hilarious declaration made by man that life is worth living.

It's I who know that well: when it was dark, you always carried the sun in your hand for me.

Politics has slain its thousands, but religion has slain its ten thousands.

The Drama's altar isn't on the stage: it is candlesticked and flowered in the box office. There is the gold, though there be no frankincense nor myrrh; and the gospel for the day always The Play will Run for a Year. The Dove of Inspiration, of the desire for inspiration, has flown away from it; and on its roof, now, the commonplace crow caws candidly.

That’s the Irish People all over - they treat a serious thing as a joke and a joke as a serious thing.

Isn't all religions curious? If they weren't you wouldn't get anyone to believe them.

There's no reason to bring religion into it. I think we ought to have as great a regard for religion as we can, so as to keep it out of as many things as possible.

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.

It's my rule never to lose my temper till it would be detrimental to keep it.

I don't believe he was ever dhrunk in his life - sure he's not like a Christian at all!

When it was dark, you always carried the sun in your hand for me.

the whole worl's in a state o' chassis

Wealth often takes away chances from men as well as poverty. There is none to tell the rich man to go on striving, for a rich man makes the law that hallows and hollows his own life.

The whole world's a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed.