Eugene Ionesco Quotes

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.

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

Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together.

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.

Childhood is the world of miracle and wonder; as if creation rose, bathed in the light, out of the darkness, utterly new and fresh and astonishing. The end of childhood is when things cease to astonish us.

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

Drama lies in extreme exaggeration of the feelings, an exaggeration that dislocates flat everyday reality.

You can only predict things after they have happened.