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Eugene Ionesco Quotes

I am told, in a dream... You can only get the answer to all your questions through a dream. So in my dream, I fall asleep, and I dream, in my dream, that I’m having that absolute, revealing dream Picture Quote #1

You can stay in society and be alone, as long as you can be detached from the world. This is why I don’t think I have ever gone for the easy option or done things that were expected of me Picture Quote #1

To become conscious of what is horrifying and to laugh at it is to become master of that which is horrifying Picture Quote #1

Theatre is simply what cannot be expressed by any other means; a complexity of words, movements, gestures that convey a vision of the world inexpressible in any other way Picture Quote #1

People always try to find base motives behind every good action. We are afraid of pure goodness and of pure evil Picture Quote #1

People who don’t read are brutes. It is better to write than to make war, isn’t it? Picture Quote #1

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My work has been essentially a dialogue with death, asking him, why? Why? So only death can silence me. Only death can close my lips Picture Quote #1

The brightest light, the light of Italy, the purest sky of Scandinavia in the month of June is only a half-light when one compares it to the light of childhood. Even the nights were blue Picture Quote #1

No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, from our fear of death, our thirst for the absolute. It is the human condition that directs the social condition, not vice versa Picture Quote #1

Beauty is a precious trace that eternity causes to appear to us and that it takes away from us. A manifestation of eternity, and a sign of death as well Picture Quote #1

There is no religion in which everyday life is not considered a prison; there is no philosophy or ideology that does not think that we live in alienation Picture Quote #1

Everything that has been will be, everything that will be is, everything that will be has been Picture Quote #1

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Like all revolutions, the surrealist revolution was a reversion, a restitution, an expression of vital and indispensable spiritual needs Picture Quote #1

Why do people always expect authors to answer questions? I am an author because I want to ask questions. If I had answers, I'd be a politician Picture Quote #1

A writer never has a vacation. For a writer, life consists of either writing or thinking about writing Picture Quote #1

There are more dead people than living. And their numbers are increasing. The living are getting rarer Picture Quote #1

It isn't what people think that is important, but the reason they think what they think Picture Quote #1

Every message of despair is the statement of a situation from which everybody must freely try to find a way out Picture Quote #1

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It's only when I say that everything is incomprehensible that I come as close as possible to understanding the only thing it is given to us to understand Picture Quote #1

The poet cannot invent new words every time, of course. He uses the words of the tribe. But the handling of the word, the accent, a new articulation, renew them Picture Quote #1

If I write a new play, my point of view may be profoundly modified. I may be obliged to contradict myself and I may no longer know whether I still think what I think Picture Quote #1

We are all looking for something of extraordinary importance whose nature we have forgotten; I am writing the memoirs of a man who has lost his memory Picture Quote #1

When I was born, I was almost fourteen years old. That’s why I was able to understand more easily than most what it was all about Picture Quote #1

The end of childhood is when things cease to astonish us. When the world seems familiar, when one has got used to existence, one has become an adult Picture Quote #1

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Language should almost break up or explode in it's fruitless effort to contain so many meanings Picture Quote #1

The human comedy does not attract me enough. I am not entirely of this world. I am from elsewhere, and it is worth finding this elsewhere beyond the walls... but where is it? Picture Quote #1

If one does not understand the usefulness of the useless and the uselessness of the useful, one cannot understand art Picture Quote #1

A really conscientious doctor ought to die with his patient. The captain goes down with his ship Picture Quote #1

Childhood is the world of miracle and wonder; as if creation rose, bathed in the light, out of the darkness, utterly new and fresh and astonishing. The end of childhood is when things cease to astonish us Picture Quote #1

The light of memory, or rather the light that memory lends to things, is the palest light of all. I am not quite sure whether I am dreaming or remembering, whether I have lived my life or dreamed it. Just as dreams do, memory makes me profoundly aware of the unreality, the evanescence of the world, a fleeting image in the moving water Picture Quote #1

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I am told, in a dream... You can only get the answer to all your questions through a dream. So in my dream, I fall asleep, and I dream, in my dream, that I’m having that absolute, revealing dream (Eugene Ionesco Quotes) You can stay in society and be alone, as long as you can be detached from the world. This is why I don’t think I have ever gone for the easy option or done things that were expected of me (Eugene Ionesco Quotes) To become conscious of what is horrifying and to laugh at it is to become master of that which is horrifying (Eugene Ionesco Quotes) Theatre is simply what cannot be expressed by any other means; a complexity of words, movements, gestures that convey a vision of the world inexpressible in any other way (Eugene Ionesco Quotes) People always try to find base motives behind every good action. We are afraid of pure goodness and of pure evil (Eugene Ionesco Quotes) People who don’t read are brutes. It is better to write than to make war, isn’t it? (Eugene Ionesco Quotes) My work has been essentially a dialogue with death, asking him, why? Why? So only death can silence me. Only death can close my lips (Eugene Ionesco Quotes) The brightest light, the light of Italy, the purest sky of Scandinavia in the month of June is only a half-light when one compares it to the light of childhood. Even the nights were blue (Eugene Ionesco Quotes) No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, from our fear of death, our thirst for the absolute. It is the human condition that directs the social condition, not vice versa (Eugene Ionesco Quotes) Beauty is a precious trace that eternity causes to appear to us and that it takes away from us. A manifestation of eternity, and a sign of death as well (Eugene Ionesco Quotes) There is no religion in which everyday life is not considered a prison; there is no philosophy or ideology that does not think that we live in alienation (Eugene Ionesco Quotes) Everything that has been will be, everything that will be is, everything that will be has been (Eugene Ionesco Quotes) Like all revolutions, the surrealist revolution was a reversion, a restitution, an expression of vital and indispensable spiritual needs (Eugene Ionesco Quotes) Why do people always expect authors to answer questions? I am an author because I want to ask questions. If I had answers, I'd be a politician (Eugene Ionesco Quotes) A writer never has a vacation. For a writer, life consists of either writing or thinking about writing (Eugene Ionesco Quotes) There are more dead people than living. And their numbers are increasing. The living are getting rarer (Eugene Ionesco Quotes) It isn't what people think that is important, but the reason they think what they think (Eugene Ionesco Quotes) Every message of despair is the statement of a situation from which everybody must freely try to find a way out (Eugene Ionesco Quotes) It's only when I say that everything is incomprehensible that I come as close as possible to understanding the only thing it is given to us to understand (Eugene Ionesco Quotes) The poet cannot invent new words every time, of course. He uses the words of the tribe. But the handling of the word, the accent, a new articulation, renew them (Eugene Ionesco Quotes) If I write a new play, my point of view may be profoundly modified. I may be obliged to contradict myself and I may no longer know whether I still think what I think (Eugene Ionesco Quotes) We are all looking for something of extraordinary importance whose nature we have forgotten; I am writing the memoirs of a man who has lost his memory (Eugene Ionesco Quotes) When I was born, I was almost fourteen years old. That’s why I was able to understand more easily than most what it was all about (Eugene Ionesco Quotes) The end of childhood is when things cease to astonish us. When the world seems familiar, when one has got used to existence, one has become an adult (Eugene Ionesco Quotes) Language should almost break up or explode in it's fruitless effort to contain so many meanings (Eugene Ionesco Quotes) The human comedy does not attract me enough. I am not entirely of this world. I am from elsewhere, and it is worth finding this elsewhere beyond the walls... but where is it? (Eugene Ionesco Quotes) If one does not understand the usefulness of the useless and the uselessness of the useful, one cannot understand art (Eugene Ionesco Quotes) A really conscientious doctor ought to die with his patient. The captain goes down with his ship (Eugene Ionesco Quotes) Childhood is the world of miracle and wonder; as if creation rose, bathed in the light, out of the darkness, utterly new and fresh and astonishing. The end of childhood is when things cease to astonish us (Eugene Ionesco Quotes) The light of memory, or rather the light that memory lends to things, is the palest light of all. I am not quite sure whether I am dreaming or remembering, whether I have lived my life or dreamed it. Just as dreams do, memory makes me profoundly aware of the unreality, the evanescence of the world, a fleeting image in the moving water (Eugene Ionesco Quotes)

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