Top 70 Eugène Ionesco Quotes (2024 Update)
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Eugène Ionesco Quote: “A person who has not completely lost the memory of paradise, even though it is a faint one, will suffer endlessly. He will feel the call of the essential world, will hear the voice that comes from so far away that one cannot find out where it comes from, a voice that cannot guide him.”

51. “A person who has not completely lost the memory of paradise, even though it is a faint one, will suffer endlessly. He will feel the call of the essential world, will hear the voice that comes from so far away that one cannot find out where it comes from, a voice that cannot guide him.”

— Eugène Ionesco

Eugène Ionesco Quote: “I long for solitude and yet I cannot stand it.”

52. “I long for solitude and yet I cannot stand it.”

— Eugène Ionesco

Eugène Ionesco Quote: “Boredom flourishes too, when you feel safe. It’s a symptom of security.”

53. “Boredom flourishes too, when you feel safe. It’s a symptom of security.”

— Eugène Ionesco

Eugène Ionesco Quote: “I’ve always been suspicious of collective truths. I think an idea is true when it hasn’t been put into words and that the moment it’s put into words it becomes exaggerated. Because the moment it’s put into words there’s an abuse, an excess in the expression of the idea that makes it false.”

54. “I’ve always been suspicious of collective truths. I think an idea is true when it hasn’t been put into words and that the moment it’s put into words it becomes exaggerated. Because the moment it’s put into words there’s an abuse, an excess in the expression of the idea that makes it false.”

— Eugène Ionesco

Eugène Ionesco Quote: “I am not capitulating.”

55. “I am not capitulating.”

— Eugène Ionesco

Eugène Ionesco Quote: “The poet cannot invent new words every time, of course. He uses the words of the tribe. But the handling of the word, the accent, a new articulation, renew them.”

56. “The poet cannot invent new words every time, of course. He uses the words of the tribe. But the handling of the word, the accent, a new articulation, renew them.”

— Eugène Ionesco

Eugène Ionesco Quote: “No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, from our fear of death, our thirst for the absolute. It is the human condition that directs the social condition, not vice versa.”

57. “No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, from our fear of death, our thirst for the absolute. It is the human condition that directs the social condition, not vice versa.”

— Eugène Ionesco

Eugène Ionesco Quote: “To tear ourselves away from the everyday, from habit, from mental laziness which hides from us the strangeness of reality, we must receive something like a real bludgeon blow.”

58. “To tear ourselves away from the everyday, from habit, from mental laziness which hides from us the strangeness of reality, we must receive something like a real bludgeon blow.”

— Eugène Ionesco

Eugène Ionesco Quote: “You’ve always made the mistake of being yourself.”

59. “You’ve always made the mistake of being yourself.”

— Eugène Ionesco

Eugène Ionesco Quote: “When silence confronts us, the question to which there is no answer rings out in the silence. That ultimate “why,” that great “why” is like a light that blots out everything, but a blinding light; nothing more can be made out...”

60. “When silence confronts us, the question to which there is no answer rings out in the silence. That ultimate “why,” that great “why” is like a light that blots out everything, but a blinding light; nothing more can be made out...”

— Eugène Ionesco

Eugène Ionesco Quote: “A civil servant doesn’t make jokes.”

61. “A civil servant doesn’t make jokes.”

— Eugène Ionesco

Eugène Ionesco Quote: “Beauty is a precious trace that eternity causes to appear to us and that it takes away from us. A manifestation of eternity, and a sign of death as well.”

62. “Beauty is a precious trace that eternity causes to appear to us and that it takes away from us. A manifestation of eternity, and a sign of death as well.”

— Eugène Ionesco

Eugène Ionesco Quote: “Shakespeare was the great one before us. His place was between God and despair.”

63. “Shakespeare was the great one before us. His place was between God and despair.”

— Eugène Ionesco

Eugène Ionesco Quote: “Logic is a very beautiful thing. As long as it is not abused.”

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

— Eugène Ionesco

Eugène Ionesco Quote: “Everything that has been will be, everything that will be is, everything that will be has been.”

65. “Everything that has been will be, everything that will be is, everything that will be has been.”

— Eugène Ionesco

Eugène Ionesco Quote: “Mediocrity is more dangerous in a critic than in a writer.”

66. “Mediocrity is more dangerous in a critic than in a writer.”

— Eugène Ionesco

Eugène Ionesco Quote: “It’s when I am fully conscious that I ask questions.”

67. “It’s when I am fully conscious that I ask questions.”

— Eugène Ionesco

Eugène Ionesco Quote: “What’s chivalrous about saying you’ve seen a rhinoceros?”

68. “What’s chivalrous about saying you’ve seen a rhinoceros?”

— Eugène Ionesco

Eugène Ionesco Quote: “Childhood is over the moment things are no longer astonishing.”

69. “Childhood is over the moment things are no longer astonishing.”

— Eugène Ionesco

Eugène Ionesco Quote: “I just can’t get used to life.”

70. “I just can’t get used to life.”

— Eugène Ionesco

Eugène Ionesco Quote: “Oh righteous doom, that they who make Pleasure their only end, Ordering the whole life for its sake, Miss that whereto they tend. While they who bid stern duty lead, Content to follow, they, Of duty only taking heed, Find pleasure by the way.”

71. “Oh righteous doom, that they who make Pleasure their only end, Ordering the whole life for its sake, Miss that whereto they tend. While they who bid stern duty lead, Content to follow, they, Of duty only taking heed, Find pleasure by the way.”

— Eugène Ionesco

Eugène Ionesco Quote: “Dreams are reality at its most profound.”

72. “Dreams are reality at its most profound.”

— Eugène Ionesco

Eugène Ionesco Quote: “I still forget, sometimes, that I am no longer 12 years old.”

73. “I still forget, sometimes, that I am no longer 12 years old.”

— Eugène Ionesco

Eugène Ionesco Quote: “If I write a new play, my point of view may be profoundly modified. I may be obliged to contradict myself and I may no longer know whether I still think what I think.”

74. “If I write a new play, my point of view may be profoundly modified. I may be obliged to contradict myself and I may no longer know whether I still think what I think.”

— Eugène Ionesco

Eugène Ionesco Quote: “I started writing for the theatre because I hated it.”

75. “I started writing for the theatre because I hated it.”

— Eugène Ionesco

Eugène Ionesco Quote: “Like all revolutions, the surrealist revolution was a reversion, a restitution, an expression of vital and indispensable spiritual needs.”

76. “Like all revolutions, the surrealist revolution was a reversion, a restitution, an expression of vital and indispensable spiritual needs.”

— Eugène Ionesco

Eugène Ionesco Quote: “A man with a soul is not like every other man.”

77. “A man with a soul is not like every other man.”

— Eugène Ionesco

Eugène Ionesco Quote: “It’s only when I say that everything is incomprehensible that I come as close as possible to understanding the only thing it is given to us to understand.”

78. “It’s only when I say that everything is incomprehensible that I come as close as possible to understanding the only thing it is given to us to understand.”

— Eugène Ionesco

Eugène Ionesco Quote: “People who don’t read are brutes.”

79. “People who don’t read are brutes.”

— Eugène Ionesco

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