No man is so old as to believe he cannot live one more year. Sean O'Casey More Quotes by Sean O'Casey More Quotes From Sean O'Casey Oh Lord, give us a sense of humor with courage to manifest it forth, so that we may laugh to shame the pomps, the vanities, the sense of self-importance of the Big Fellows that the world sometimes sends among us, and who try to take our peace away. Sean O'Casey vanity humor self That's the Irish all over -- they treat a joke as a serious thing and a serious thing as a joke. Sean O'Casey serious-things treats serious There's nothing so passionate as a vested interest disguised as an intellectual conviction. Sean O'Casey argument passionate intellectual All the world's a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed. Sean O'Casey funny-life inspirational drama 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. Sean O'Casey wall cells ideas Politics - I don't know why, but they seem to have a tendency to separate us, to keep us from one another, while nature is always and ever making efforts to bring us together. Sean O'Casey effort greed political To me life is simply an invitation to live. Sean O'Casey invitations life-is 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. Sean O'Casey laughter wine men When it was dark, you always carried the sun in your hand for me. Sean O'Casey healing hope dark 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. Sean O'Casey dignity atheism thinking I ofen looked up at the sky an' assed meself the question - what is the stars, what is the stars? Sean O'Casey stars sky So let us all who pray ask for what most of them need badly, a sense of humor to lighten their way through life, making it merrier for themselves and easier for others. Sean O'Casey prayer way needs The artist's life is to be where life is, active life, found in neither ivory tower nor concrete shelter; he must be out listening to everything, looking at everything, and thinking it all out afterward. Sean O'Casey artist book thinking The whole worl's in a state o' chassis. Sean O'Casey states study whole 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! Sean O'Casey serenity stars hair Jesus, Buddha, Mohammed, great as each may be, their highest comfort given to the sorrowful is a cordial introduction into another's woe. Sorrow's the great community in which all men born of woman are members at one time or another. Sean O'Casey community men jesus It's my rule never to lose me temper till it would be detrimental to keep it. Sean O'Casey detrimental temper would-be The secret to happiness is to find a congenial monotony. Sean O'Casey monotony secret happiness The hallway of every man's life is paced with pictures; pictures gay and pictures gloomy, all useful, for if we be wise, we can learn from them a richer and braver way to live. Sean O'Casey gay wise men What time has been wasted during man's destiny in the struggle to decide what man's next world will be like! The keener the effort to find out, the less he knew about the present one he lived in. Sean O'Casey destiny struggle men
