Eugène Ionesco Quotes

To you, ladies and gentlemen, and dear comrades, who are all that is left from humanity, but with such leftovers one can still make a very good soup.

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.

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

It is true that all authors have tried to make propaganda. The great ones are those who failed, who have gained access, consciously or not, to a deeper and more universal reality.

إنه يكتب لأنه يتساءل عن ماهية العالم, أو لأنه يريد أن يبرر وجوده, أو لأنه يرغب فى تأدية رسالة أخلاقية أو سياسية.. ولكنها كلها علل وأعذار تخفى وراءها باعثا أعمق لا يستطيع الفكر إدراك كنهه. وربما لم يكن هذا الباعث سوى شهوة الخلق.

I've always been suspicious of collective truths.

We haven't the time to take our time.

Bucuriile mele sunt triste pentru că ele manifestă o acceptare a nu ştiu căror legi inferioare. Sunt deficiente faţă de orice tristeţe care nu trebuie să privească decât neîmplinirea mea în absolut.

Prenez un cercle, caressez-le, il deviendra vicieux.

I ought not to have stirred, I was swept into the dance, caught up in the whirling movement of things. Being in Time means running after the present. You run after things, you run with things, you flow away.

It isn't what people think that's important, but the reason they think what they think.

Politicians are either there or here or totally at home. Their finitude is more than sufficient unto itself. I don’t mean to imply that I’m any better than they which does not mean that they are any better than I. Which doesn’t mean anything at all.

Criza limbajului

Ruptura între ființă și gandire.Gandirea,golită de ființă,se usucă,se vestejește,nu mai e gandire.Într-adevăr,gandirea e expresia ființei,coincide cu ființa.Poți vorbi fără să gandești.Pentru asta avem la dispoziție clișeele,adică automatismele.Gandirea adevărată nu poate fi decat vie.

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

Now didn't I warn you, just a little while ago: arithmetic leads to philology, and philology leads to crime . . .