Quotes from Eugene Ionesco

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

All men die in solitude; all values are degraded in a state of misery: that is what Shakespeare tells me

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.

I've always been suspicious of collective truths.

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

We haven't the time to take our time.

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

Bucuriile mele sunt triste pentru c? ele manifest? o acceptare a nu ÅŸtiu c?ror legi inferioare. Sunt deficiente fa?? de orice tristeÅ£e care nu trebuie s? priveasc? decât neîmplinirea mea în absolut.

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

Criza limbajului Ruptura între fiin?? È™i gandire.Gandirea,golit? de fiin??,se usuc?,se vestejeÈ™te,nu mai e gandire.Într-adev?r,gandirea e expresia fiinÈ›ei,coincide cu fiinÈ›a.PoÈ›i vorbi f?r? s? gandeÈ™ti.Pentru asta avem la dispoziÈ›ie cliÈ™eele,adic? automatismele.Gandirea adev?rat? nu poate fi decat vie.

It's not that I hate people. I'm just indifferent to them—or rather, they disgust me; and they'd better keep out of my way, or I'll run them down.

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

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.

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.

As I said, I started with poetry, and I also wrote criticism and dialogue. But I realized that I was most successful at dialogue. Perhaps I abandoned criticism because I am full of contradictions, and when you write an essay you are not supposed to contradict yourself. But in the theater, by inventing various characters, you can. My characters are contradictory not only in their language, but in their behavior as well.

Another syllogism. All cats die. Socrates is dead. Therefore Socrates is a cat.

Ne m'envoie plus ouvrir la porte. Tu as vu que c'était inutile. L'expérience nous apprend que lorsqu'on entend sonner à la porte, c'est qu'il n'y a jamais personne.

Eroarea lui André Breton este,poate,de a se fi luat prea în serios.Trebuie s? te iei doar puÈ›in în serios,altminteri totul e inconsistent.Dar dac? te iei prea în serios,nu mai exist? libertate,e gata puÈ™c?ria,strangularea.Nu mai ai cu adev?rat libertate de miÈ™care.Nu te mai miÈ™ti,eÈ™ti prins,eÈ™ti una cu lucrurile,nu mai ai distanÈ›a necesar? de a vedea clar.Trebuie s? fii numai pe jum?tate serios.

Si es absolutamente necesario que el arte o el teatro sirvan para algo, será para enseñar a la gente que hay actividades que no sirven para nada y que es indispensable que las haya.

Je meurs, vous entendez, je veux dire que je meurs, je n'arrive pas à le dire, je ne fais que de la littérature.

She has regular features but yet one could not say that she was pretty. She is too big and too stout. Her features are not regular and yet one could say that she is very pretty. She is too small and too thin. She's a voice teacher

JEAN: Visezi de-a-mpicioarelea! BERENGER: Dar eu stau jos. JEAN: Jos sau în picioare-i tot aia! BERENGER: Eh. nu... totuÅŸi e-o diferen??! JEAN: Nu-i vorba de asta. BERENGER: P?i tu ai spus c?-i totuna de-i jos sau în picioare... JEAN: Nu m-ai înÅ£eles. Atunci cînd visezi e totuna dac? visezi aÅŸezat sau în picioare!... BERENGER: Ei bine, da, visez... ViaÅ£a e vis...