Eugene Ionesco Quotes

"Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together."
- Eugene Ionesco
(Related: Dreams)

"A civil servant doesn't make jokes."
- Eugene Ionesco
(Related: Jokes)

"A man with a soul is not like every other man."
- Eugene Ionesco
(Related: Soul, Man)

"A nose that can see is worth two that sniff."
- Eugene Ionesco
(Related: Worth)

"A work of art is above all an adventure of the mind."
- Eugene Ionesco
(Related: Art, Work, Adventure, Mind)

"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
(Related: Beauty, Death, Causes, Eternity)

"Everything that has been will be, everything that will be is, everything that will be has been."
- Eugene Ionesco
(Related: Will)

"The critic should describe, and not prescribe."
- Eugene Ionesco

"I've always been suspicious of collective truths."
- Eugene Ionesco

"You can only predict things after they have happened."
- Eugene Ionesco

"It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question."
- Eugene Ionesco
(Related: Question)

"Like all revolutions, the surrealist revolution was a reversion, a restitution, an expression of vital and indispensable spiritual needs."
- Eugene Ionesco
(Related: Expression, Revolution, Needs, Spiritual)

"Living is abnormal."
- Eugene Ionesco
(Related: Living)

"Shakespeare was the great one before us. His place was between God and despair."
- Eugene Ionesco
(Related: God, Despair, Shakespeare)

"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
(Related: Life, Religion, Alienation, Ideology, Philosophy, Prison)

"We have not the time to take our time."
- Eugene Ionesco
(Related: Time)

"Explanation separates us from astonishment, which is the only gateway to the incomprehensible."
- Eugene Ionesco