18 Quotations by Eugene Ionesco
- 1. A man with a soul is not like every other man.
- 2. A work of art is above all an adventure of the mind.
- 3. Banality is a symptom of non-communication. Men hide behind their cliches.
- 4. Beauty is a precious trace that eternity causes to appear to us and that it takes away from us. A ma ...
- 5. Every message of despair is the statement of a situation from which everybody must freely try to fin ...
- 6. Explanation separates us from astonishment, which is the only gateway to the incomprehensible.
- 7. For me, it is as though at every moment the actual world had completely lost its actuality. As thoug ...
- 8. I believe that in the history of art and of thought there has always been at every living moment of ...
- 9. Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together.
- 10. Mindful of his own dignity, he is mindful of others', because he wishes to safeguard what is in fact ...
- 11. No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain ...
- 12. Realism, whether it be socialist or not, falls short of reality. It shrinks it, attenuates it, falsi ...
- 13. Since the death instinct exists in the heart of everything that lives, since we suffer from trying t ...
- 14. The light of memory, or rather the light that memory lends to things, is the palest light of all. I ...
- 15. The universe seems to me infinitely strange and foreign. At such a moment I gaze upon it with a mixt ...
- 16. There is no religion in which everyday life is not considered a prison; there is no philosophy or id ...
- 17. There is nothing truer than myth: history, in its attempt to "realize" myth, distorts it, stops half ...
- 18. You can only predict things after they've happened.
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