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To become conscious of what is horrifying and to laugh at it is to become master of that which is horrifying
— Eugene Ionesco
Explanation separates us from astonishment, which is the only gateway to the incomprehensible.
— Eugene Ionesco
Logic is a very beautiful thing. As long as it is not abused.
— Eugene Ionesco
Dreams are reality at its most profound.
— Eugene Ionesco
I think that Ionesco's greatest weapon is that he's able to make us laugh at the darkest corners of our souls.
— Geoffrey Rush
Our anxieties were driving us to become other people - he was Earner; I was
Mother, like characters in some phenomenally boring Ionesco play. — Claire Dederer
Mother, like characters in some phenomenally boring Ionesco play. — Claire Dederer
People always try to find base motives behind every good action. We are afraid of pure goodness and of pure evil.
— Eugene Ionesco
It's when I am fully conscious that I ask questions.
— Eugene Ionesco
I'll never waste my dreams by falling asleep. Never again.
— Eugene Ionesco
The critic should describe, and not prescribe.
— Eugene Ionesco
I'm looking for a monophysite priest to marry our maid.
— Eugene Ionesco
There are more dead people than living. And their numbers are increasing. The living are getting rarer.
— Eugene Ionesco
Everything that has been will be, everything that will be is, everything that will be has been.
— Eugene Ionesco
I just can't get used to life.
— Eugene Ionesco
The Arts are man's most useless ... and essential ... activity.
— Eugene Ionesco
Drama lies in extreme exaggeration of the feelings, an exaggeration that dislocates flat everyday reality.
— Eugene Ionesco
A nose that can see is worth two that sniff.
— Eugene Ionesco
A man with a soul is not like every other man.
— Eugene Ionesco
But you'll never become a rhinoceros, really you won't ... you haven't got the vocation!
— Eugene Ionesco
I still forget, sometimes, that I am no longer 12 years old.
— Eugene Ionesco
God is dead. Marx is dead. And I don't feel so well myself.
— Eugene Ionesco
Childhood is over the moment things are no longer astonishing.
— Eugene Ionesco
We are made to be immortal, and yet we die. It's horrible, it can't be taken seriously
— Eugene Ionesco
What's chivalrous about saying you've seen a rhinoceros?
— Eugene Ionesco
I long for solitude and yet I cannot stand it.
— Eugene Ionesco
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
I've always been suspicious of collective truths.
— Eugene Ionesco