Eugène Ionesco Quotes

That's not it. That's not it at all. You always have a tendency to add. But one must be able to subtract too. It's not enough to integrate, you must also disintegrate. That's the way life is. That's philosophy. That's science. That's progress, civilization.

AMÉDÉE: Slavery has been abolished, my love . . .
MADELEINE: I’m not your love . . .
AMÉDÉE: Slaves belong to the past . . .
MADELEINE: Well, I’m a modern slave, then!

How bizarre, curious, strange! Then, madam, we live in the same room and we sleep in the same bed, dear lady. It is perhaps there that we have met!

Les morts sont plus nombreux que les vivants. Leur nombre augemente. Les vivants sont rares.

Sa Majesté, la reine Marie, seconde épouse du Roi, première dans son coeur

PUPIL: Are the roots of words square? PROFESSOR: Square or cube. That depends. PUPIL: I've got a toothache.

Eh oui, je rêve...la vie est un rêve.

- Her eyes . . . What's the colour of her eyes . . . ?
JEAN : Misty eyes . . . no, black . . . no, very bright . . . and penetrating . . . no, elusive . . . with a present, no, absent look, the colour of certain dreams, as gentle as the touch of a warm river in summer. You see? She's easy to recognize!

My heart's like a wounded beast, clawing me in its death-throes . . . My stomach's a bottomless pit, my mouth a funnel of fire. Hunger and thirst, hunger and thirst . . .

The light of memory, or rather the light that memory lends to things, is the palest light of all…I am not quite sure whether I am dreaming or remembering, whether I have lived my life or dreamed it. Just as dreams do, memory makes me profoundly aware of the unreality, the evanescence of the world, a fleeting image in the moving water

Dans la vie, il faut regarder par la fenêtre. (XI, 61)

Un país en donde no se comprende el arte es un país de esclavos o de robots, un país de gente desdichada, de gente que no ríe ni sonríe, un país sin espíritu; donde no hay humorismo, donde no hay risa, hay cólera y odio.

Publicul românesc este dezorientat, sugestibil, capricios, înzestrat cu un gust dubios [...] orice carte lansată pe piață, bună sau rea este un mare risc, o aventură care, adesea, poate duce falimentul sau bogăția. Psihologia publicului nostru nu cunoaște nicio lege în afara de legea capriciului

I feel so tired, so tired . . . worn out, heavy. I’ve got indigestion
and my tummy’s all blown out. I feel sleepy all the time.

And all I long for is the dawn!