Quotes by : Eugène Ionesco

I read a page of Plato's great work. I can no longer understand anything, because behind the words on....

Oh words, what crimes are committed in your name?~Jack or The Submission

I have always considered imaginative truth to be more profound, more loaded with significance, than every....

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

I'll never waste my dreams by falling asleep. Never again.

Year after year of dirty snow and bitter winds… houses and whole districts of people who aren’t really....

Of course, not everything is unsayable in words, only the living truth.

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

Realism falls short of reality. It shrinks it, attenuates it, falsifies it; it does not take into account....

The poet cannot invent new words every time, of course. He uses the words of the tribe. But the handling....