Eugene Ionesco Quotes

We are made to be immortal, and yet we die. It's horrible, it can't be taken seriously

To me the world seems grotesque, absurd, ridiculous, painful.

Logic is a very beautiful thing. As long as it is not abused.

I am told, in a dream you can only get the answer to all your questions through a dream. So in my dream, I fall asleep, and I dream, in my dream, that I'm having that absolute, revealing dream.

A civil servant doesn't make jokes.

Good men make good rhinoceroses, unfortunately.

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.

Why was I born, if it wasn't forever?

The more I try to explain myself, the less I understand myself.

Dreams are reality at its most profound, and what you invent is truth because invention, by its nature, can't be a lie.

I am not capitulating.

It's not a certain society that seems ridiculous to me, it's mankind.

The human comedy does not attract me enough. I am not entirely of this world. I am from elsewhere, and it is worth finding this elsewhere beyond the walls...but where is it?

A man with a soul is not like every other man.

There is no religion in which everyday life is not considered a prison there is no philosophy or ideology that does not think that we live in alienation.

You can only predict things after they've happened.

Theatre is simply what cannot be expressed by any other means a complexity of words movements gestures that convey a vision of the world inexpressible in any other way.