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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

It's not a certain society that seems ridiculous to me, it's mankind, — Eugene Ionesco

Rhinoceros The Leader The Future is in Eggs or It Takes all Sorts to Make a World — 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

Many people have delusions of grandeur but you're deluded by triviality. — 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

Boredom flourishes too, when you feel safe. It's a symptom of security. — 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

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

If one does not understand the usefulness of the useless and the uselessness of the useful, one cannot understand art. — Eugene Ionesco

The fact that I despise religion doesn't mean I don't esteem it highly. — Eugene Ionesco

Language should almost break up or explode in its fruitless effort to contain so many meanings. — Eugene Ionesco

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

Of course, not everything is unsayable in words, only the living truth. — Eugene Ionesco

Banality is a symptom of non-communication. Men hide behind their cliches. — Eugene Ionesco

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It's not the answer that enlightens, but the question. EUGENE IONESCO — Julia Cameron

FIRE CHIEF: Life is very simple, really. [To the Smiths:] Go on and kiss each other. — 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

I started writing for the theatre because I hated it. — Eugene Ionesco

That's how we stay young these days: murder and suicide. — Eugene Ionesco

A civil servant doesn't make jokes. — Eugene Ionesco

We have not the time to take our time. — Eugene Ionesco

We haven't the time to take our time. — Eugene Ionesco

People who don't read are brutes. — Eugene Ionesco

Nothing makes me more pessimistic than the obligation not to be pessimistic. — Eugene Ionesco

Describe a circle, stroke its back and it turns vicious. — Eugene Ionesco

Shakespeare was the great one before us. His place was between God and despair. — Eugene Ionesco

Only the ephemeral is of lasting value. — Eugene Ionesco

I don't believe in seeing evil in everything. I leave that to the inquisitors. — Eugene Ionesco

All cats die. Socrates is dead. Therefore Socrates is a cat. — Eugene Ionesco

People, they all have the word goodness on lips a bloody knife between their teeth. — 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

Solitude seems to oppress me. And so does the company of other people. — 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

A really conscientious doctor ought to die with his patient. The captain goes down with his ship. — Eugene Ionesco

Oh words, what crimes are committed in your name?

~Jack or The Submission — Eugene Ionesco

A writer never has a vacation. For a writer, life consists of either writing or thinking about writing. — Eugene Ionesco