Eugene IonescoLike all revolutions, the surrealist revolution was a reversion, a restitution, an expression of vital and indispensable spiritual needs.372Politics
Eugene IonescoNo 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… ▶374DeathHumanityLife
Eugene IonescoAll cats die. Socrates is dead. Therefore Socrates is a cat. ✨ Eugene Ionesco (2015). Rhinoceros and Other Plays: Includes: The Leader; The Future Is in Eggs; It Takes All K… ▶374DeathHopeTime
Eugene IonescoDreams are reality at its most profound, and what you invent is truth because invention, by its nature, can't be a lie. ✨ Eugene Ionesco, The Art of Theater No. 6. Interview… ▶375Truth
Eugene IonescoDescribe a circle, stroke its back and it turns vicious.331Sadness
Eugene IonescoBeauty 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.365Death
Eugene IonescoIt is not the answer that enlightens, but the question. ✨ Choosing the Future: The Power of Strategic Thinking. Book by Stuart Wells, p. 15, 1997.322HopePoliticsReading
Eugene IonescoMany people have delusions of grandeur but you're deluded by triviality. ✨ Eugene Ionesco, Charles Marowitz (2015). Exit the King, The Killer, Macbett, p.15, Grove/Atlantic,… ▶333Humanity
Eugene IonescoYou can only predict things after they have happened. ✨ 'Le Rhinocèros' (1959) act 3301Life
Eugene IonescoA work of art is above all an adventure of the mind.323Thought
Eugene IonescoIt'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.334Life
Eugene IonescoA person who has not completely lost the memory of paradise, even though it is a faint one, will suffer endlessly. He will feel the call of the essential world, will hear the voic… ▶334Thought
Eugene IonescoTo become conscious of what is horrifying and to laugh at it is to become master of that which is horrifying312Humor
Eugene IonescoChildhood 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 th… ▶346Truth
Eugene IonescoA writer never has a vacation. For a writer, life consists of either writing or thinking about writing.357LifeThought
Eugene IonescoThe 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… ▶335LifeTruth
Eugene IonescoThere 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.315LifePhilosophyReflection
Eugene IonescoBoredom flourishes too, when you feel safe. It's a symptom of security.337Reading
Eugene IonescoThere is nothing truer than myth: history, in its attempt to realize myth, distorts it, stops halfway; when history claims to have succeeded, this is nothing but humbug and mystif… ▶348Truth
Eugene IonescoYou've always made the mistake of being yourself.272Sadness
Eugene IonescoThat's how we stay young these days: murder and suicide.305Thought
Eugene IonescoI personally would like to bring a tortoise onto the stage, turn it into a racehorse, then into a hat, a song, a dragoon and a fountain of water. One can dare anything in the thea… ▶273Reading
Eugene IonescoTo me the world seems grotesque, absurd, ridiculous, painful.296Sadness
Eugene IonescoThe 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 we… ▶3310Hope
Eugene IonescoThe Arts are man's most useless ... and essential ... activity.319Sadness
Eugene IonescoThe 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.319Time
Eugene IonescoSince the death instinct exists in the heart of everything that lives, since we suffer from trying to repress it, since everything that lives longs for rest, let us unfasten the t… ▶265DeathLifeLove
Eugene IonescoDAISY: I never knew you were such a realist-I thought you were more poetic. Where's your imagination? There are many sides to reality. Choose the one that's best for you. Escape i… ▶232HopeThoughtTime
Eugene IonescoWe haven't the time to take out time.244Time
Eugene IonescoWhy 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. ✨ The Writer's Quotation… ▶233HumanityPoliticsReading
