Eugene Ionesco Quotes

• A civil servant doesn’t make jokes.

  Eugene Ionesco

  Topics in Uncategorized

• 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.

  Eugene Ionesco

  Topics in Humor

  Tags in Politician

• You can only predict things after they have happened.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Yourself

• We have not the time to take our time.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Time, Importance

• The critic should describe, and not prescribe.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Critic

• Shakespeare was the great one before us. His place was between God and despair.

  Eugene Ionesco

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Shakespeare, Great Man

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

  Eugene Ionesco

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Revolutions, Indispensable, Spiritual

• 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.

  Eugene Ionesco

  Topics in Beauty

  Tags in Eternity

• Everything that has been will be, everything that will be is, everything that will be has been.

  Eugene Ionesco

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Everything

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

  Eugene Ionesco

  Topics in Soul

  Tags in Man

• A nose that can see is worth two that sniff.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Nose

• A civil servant doesn’t make jokes.

  Eugene Ionesco

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Civil, Servant

• 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.

  Eugene Ionesco

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Philosophy, Ideology

• I’ve always been suspicious of collective truths.

  Eugene Ionesco

  Topics in Truth

  Tags in Collective, Suspicious

• Living is abnormal.

  Eugene Ionesco

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Living

• It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question.

  Eugene Ionesco

  Topics in Uncategorized

• Explanation separates us from astonishment, which is the only gateway to the incomprehensible.

  Eugene Ionesco

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Explanation, Incomprehensible

• 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.

  Eugene Ionesco

  Topics in Society

  Tags in Human, Social, Condition

• A writer never has a vacation. For a writer life consists of either writing or thinking about writing.

  Eugene Ionesco

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Writer, Writing, Thinking

• 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.

  Eugene Ionesco

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Theatre, Acting

Eugene Ionesco (22)

Birth:	26th November, 1909
Death:	28th March, 1994
Nationality:	French, Romanian
Profession:	Dramatist, Playwriter

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