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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