Quotes by
Eugene Ionesco |
1912-1994 , French-Romanian playwright
French-Romanian playwright and dramatist, one of the foremost playwrights of Theatre of the Absurd.Major works: The Bald Soprano (1950), The Chairs (1952), Rhinoceros (1959), Exit the King (1962)
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Quotations
| • | That's how we stay young these days: murder and suicide. 20 |
| • | All cats are mortal. Socrates is mortal. Therefore Socrates is a cat. (making a parody of the classic syllogism by Aristotle) 11 |
| • | Fondle a circle and it will become vicious. 11 |
| • | Only the ephemeral lasts. 10 |
| • | Cut off from his religious, metaphysical and transcendental roots, man is lost; all his actions become senseless, absurd, useless. 9 |
| • | You know, the Cathars believed that the world was not created by God but by a demon who had stolen a few technological secrets from Him and made this world — which is why it doesn’t work. 7 |
| • | Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together. 7 |
| • | It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question. 7 |
| • | I still forget, sometimes, that I am no longer 12 years old. 6 |
| • | People always try to find base motives behind every good action. We are afraid of pure goodness and of pure evil. 6 |
| • | There are diseases that are healthy. 6 |
| • | I didn't mean you were stupid. It's just that you're not logical, which isn't the same thing at all. 6 |
| • | I've always been suspicious of collective truths. 5 |
| • | It's not a certain society that seems ridiculous to me, it's mankind. 5 |
| • | Why do people always expect authors to answer questions? I am an author because I want to ask questions. If I had answers, I'd be a politician. 5 |
| • | All the plays that have ever been written, from ancient Greece to the present day, have never really been anything but thrillers... Every play is an investigation brought to a successful conclusion. 5 |
| • | Oh words, what crimes are committed in your name! 5 |
| • | You have to write for yourself, that's how you can get to others. 5 |
| • | If one does not understand the usefulness of the useless and the uselessness of the useful, one cannot understand art. 4 |
| • | I long for solitude and yet I cannot stand it. 4 |
| • | I have never been to the Right, nor have I been a Communist, because I have experienced, personally, both forms of totalitarianism. It is those who have never lived under tyranny who call me petit bourgeois. 4 |
| • | Reason is the folly of the powerful. The reason of the less powerful is a folly. 4 |
| • | We are all Victims of Duty. 4 |
| • | The end of childhood is when things cease to astonish us. 3 |
| • | Explanation separates us from astonishment, which is the only gateway to the incomprehensible. 3 |
| • | The critic should describe, and not prescribe. 3 |
| • | A work of art really is above all an adventure of the mind. 3 |
| • | A writer never has a vacation. For a writer, life consists of either writing or thinking about writing. 3 |
| • | Nothing is new under the sun even when there is no sun. 3 |
| • | Life is surprising, a lot of unexpected things can happen to you. Small, not big ones. 3 |
| • | Wanting to be of one's time is already outdated. 3 |
| • | I am convinced that the riots and student disorders must be linked to a biological need. 3 |
Funny Quotes
| • | God is dead. Marx is dead. And I don’t feel so well myself. 8 |
