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
trying likes world
When one has reached 81... one likes to sit back and let the world turn by itself, without trying to push it.
action chord lives touches vibrate
Every action of our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.
believe man
No man is so old as to believe he cannot live one more year.
man none
There is none to tell the rich to go on striving, for a rich man makes the law that hallows and hollows his own life.
angels art born devotion guardian human joyce lad ought side song terrible
Joyce for all his devotion to his art, terrible in its austerity, was a lad born with a song on one side of him, a dance on the other; two gay guardian angels every human ought to have.
stage worlds
The worlds a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed.
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.
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.
book thinking artist
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.
prayer needs way
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.
wise gay men
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.
comedy
We couldn't live without comedy.
land history waste
A waste land lit by holy candles.
inspirational life art
Work! labor the asparagus me of life; the one great sacrament of humanity from which all other things flow - security, leisure, joy, art, literature, even divinity itself.