Quotes from Eugene Ionesco

Experience teaches us that when one hears the doorbell ring it is because there is never anyone there.

MRS. SMITH: Well, this is how it was. It is difficult for me to speak openly to you, but a fireman is also a confessor.

The Dog and the Cow," an experimental fable. Once upon a time another cow asked another dog: "Why have you not swallowed your trunk?" "Pardon me," replied the dog, "it is because I thought that I was an elephant.

The fact that I despise religion doesn't mean I don't esteem it highly.

Sa Majesté, la reine Marie, seconde épouse du Roi, première dans son coeur

Det er ikke sikkert at alkohol dreper alle sykdomsbasiller. Når det gjelder neshorneri, vet man ikke noe foreløbig.

Når det kommer til stykket, er jeg ikke sikker på om De har moralsk rett til å blande dem i saken. Dessuten tror jeg fremdeles ikke det er noen fare på ferde. Etter min mening er det absurd å gå fra konseptene fordi om noen mennesker har fått lyst til å skifte ham. Det får bli deres egen sak. Det står enhver fritt for.

Mme Martin: Quelle est la morale ? Le Pompier: C'est à vous de la trouver.

Obositul ins Cineva rupea din el cîte puÈ›intel. L-a l?sat decolorat È™i cutremurat, Mirat s-a pip?it dar nu s-a reg?sit. Din el o forÈ›a rea creÈ™tea È™i-l cuprindea. Obositul ins se l?s? cuprins.

My boy! It's really true, you really love hashed brown potatoes? You make me so happy. JACK [without conviction]: Yes, I like them, I adore them!

Assassin! Misérable! Tu m'as tuée et maintenant tu ne veux pas que je m'empoisonne!

I'll take on the whole lot of them! I'll put up a fight against the lot of them, the whole lot of them! I'm the last man left, and I'm staying that way until the end. I'm not capitulating!

I feel so tired, so tired . . . worn out, heavy. I've got indigestion and my tummy's all blown out. I feel sleepy all the time.

I can't stick it. Perhaps it's my liver. I feel I've aged. Of course, I'm not exactly young any more. Still, to feel like this . .

You don't need to be drunk all the time to become an alcoholic ! . . . It's that little drink before dinner. That's what gradually poisons your whole system ! . . .

MADELEINE: Well, then, if you've always been such a sober-sides, if you've nothing seriously wrong with you, if all your faculties are still intact, wake yourself up a bit, get to work, write your masterpiece . . . AMÉDÉE: I tell you I've no inspiration . . .

OLD MAN: Make believe yourself, it's your turn. OLD WOMAN: It's your turn. OLD MAN: Your turn. OLD WOMAN: Your turn OLD MAN: Your turn. OLD WOMAN: Your turn.

Rhinoceros The Leader The Future is in Eggs or It Takes all Sorts to Make a World

I am sad when I think that the years go by like sacks that we mark Returned Empty, sad when I think that we shall be separated from one another and from ourselves.

IL était comme un de ces voyageurs qui s'attardent dans les auberges en oubliant que le but du voyage n'est pas l'auberge

The light of memory, or rather the light that memory lends to things, is the palest light of all…I am not quite sure whether I am dreaming or remembering, whether I have lived my life or dreamed it. Just as dreams do, memory makes me profoundly aware of the unreality, the evanescence of the world, a fleeting image in the moving water

We've eaten well this evening. That's because we live in the suburbs of London and because our name is Smith.

SpuneÅ£i repede, domnule, c? n-am vreme. Eu sînt la odihn?.

PUPIL: I can count to . . . to infinity. PROFESSOR: That's not possible, miss. PUPIL: Well then, let's say to sixteen. PROFESSOR: That is enough. One must know one's limits. Count