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Every message of despair is the statement of a situation from which everybody must freely try to find a way out.
— Eugene Ionesco
To become conscious of what is horrifying and to laugh at it is to become master of that which is horrifying
— Eugene Ionesco
Mediocrity is more dangerous in a critic than in a writer.
— Eugene Ionesco
Explanation separates us from astonishment, which is the only gateway to the incomprehensible.
— Eugene Ionesco
Do rhinoceroses cough?
— Eugene Ionesco
Good men make good rhinoceroses, unfortunately.
— Eugene Ionesco
Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together.
— Eugene Ionesco
It isn't what people think that is important, but the reason they think what they think
— Eugene Ionesco
When you've seen all of Ionesco's plays, I felt at the end, you've seen one of them.
— Kenneth Tynan
Logic is a very beautiful thing. As long as it is not abused.
— Eugene Ionesco
A work of art really is above all an adventure of the mind.
— 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
If one does not understand the usefulness of the useless and the uselessness of the useful, one cannot understand art.
— Eugene Ionesco
Language should almost break up or explode in its fruitless effort to contain so many meanings.
— Eugene Ionesco
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
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
The more I try to explain myself, the less I understand myself.
— Eugene Ionesco
I'll never waste my dreams by falling asleep. Never again.
— Eugene Ionesco
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
All men die in solitude; all values are degraded in a state of misery: that is what Shakespeare tells me
— 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
We haven't the time to take out time.
— Eugene Ionesco
That's how we stay young these days: murder and suicide.
— Eugene Ionesco
A civil servant doesn't make jokes.
— Eugene Ionesco
I started writing for the theatre because I hated it.
— Eugene Ionesco
FIRE CHIEF: Life is very simple, really. [To the Smiths:] Go on and kiss each other.
— Eugene Ionesco
We have not the time to take our time.
— Eugene Ionesco
People, they all have the word goodness on lips a bloody knife between their teeth.
— Eugene Ionesco
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We haven't the time to take our time.
— Eugene Ionesco
People who don't read are brutes.
— Eugene Ionesco
Only the ephemeral is of lasting value.
— Eugene Ionesco
All cats die. Socrates is dead. Therefore Socrates is a cat.
— Eugene Ionesco
It's not that I hate people. I'm just indifferent to them - or rather, they disgust me; and they'd better keep out of my way, or I'll run them down.
— Eugene Ionesco
Describe a circle, stroke its back and it turns vicious.
— Eugene Ionesco
The Arts are man's most useless ... and essential ... activity.
— Eugene Ionesco
I've always been suspicious of collective truths.
— 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 long for solitude and yet I cannot stand it.
— Eugene Ionesco
What's chivalrous about saying you've seen a rhinoceros?
— Eugene Ionesco
We are made to be immortal, and yet we die. It's horrible, it can't be taken seriously
— Eugene Ionesco
Childhood is over the moment things are no longer astonishing.
— Eugene Ionesco
God is dead. Marx is dead. And I don't feel so well myself.
— Eugene Ionesco
I still forget, sometimes, that I am no longer 12 years old.
— Eugene Ionesco
But you'll never become a rhinoceros, really you won't ... you haven't got the vocation!
— Eugene Ionesco
A man with a soul is not like every other man.
— 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
I just can't get used to life.
— Eugene Ionesco
Everything that has been will be, everything that will be is, everything that will be has been.
— Eugene Ionesco
It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question.
— Eugene Ionesco
You've always made the mistake of being yourself.
— Eugene Ionesco
Living is abnormal.
— Eugene Ionesco
To me the world seems grotesque, absurd, ridiculous, painful.
— Eugene Ionesco
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
You can only predict things after they have happened.
— Eugene Ionesco
He would say ect. instead of ect., and thus instead of ect., instead of ect. and thus and so forth!
— Eugene Ionesco
I am not capitulating.
— Eugene Ionesco
Truth has only two sides, but it's the third side that's best.
— Eugene Ionesco
Why was I born, if it wasn't forever?
— Eugene Ionesco
Like all revolutions, the surrealist revolution was a reversion, a restitution, an expression of vital and indispensable spiritual needs.
— Eugene Ionesco
