Find the perfect quote to float your boat. Shmoop breaks down key quotations from Long Day's Journey Into Night.
Guilt and Blame Quotes
MARY I'm not blaming you, dear. How can you help it? How can any one of us forget? (1.1.228)
Suffering Quotes
MARY It makes is so much harder, living in this atmosphere of constant suspicion, knowing everyone is spying on me, and none of you believe in me, or trust me […] If there was only some place...
Drugs and Alcohol Quotes
JAMES There's nothing like the first after-breakfast cigar, if it's a good one, and this new lot have the right mellow flavor. (1.1.9)
Memory and The Past Quotes
JAMES Yes, forget! Forget everything and face nothing! It's a convenient philosophy if you've no ambition in life except to – (1.1.45)
Lies and Deceit Quotes
JAMES Yes, forget! Forget everything and face nothing! It's a convenient philosophy if you've no ambition in life except to – (1.1.45)
Fate and Free Will Quotes
MARY I'm not blaming you, dear. How can you help it? How can any one of us forget? That's what makes it so hard – for all of us. We can't forget. (1.1.228)
Family Quotes
JAMIE You never knew what was really wrong until you were in prep school. Papa and I kept it from you. But I was wise ten years or more before we had to tell you. (2.1.55)
Society and Class Quotes
EDMUND Harker will think you're no gentleman for harboring a tenant who isn't humble in the presence of a king of America. TYRONE Nevermind the Socialist gabble. (1.1.58-59)