Quotes by : Eugène Ionesco

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

I am sad when I think that the years go by like sacks that we mark "Returned Empty," sad when I think....

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....

You can only predict things after they have happened.

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

BERENGER: And you consider all this natural? 

DUDARD: What could be more natural than a rhinoceros?....

Nothing is mightier than our why, nothing stands above it, because in the end there is a why to which....

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....