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....

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

The light of memory, or rather the light that memory lends to things, is the palest light of all. I am....

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

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....