“Nothing makes me more pessimistic than the obligation not to be pessimistic.”
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Famous Eugene Ionesco Quotes
“I just can't get used to life.”
Source: Rhinoceros and Other Plays: Includes: The Leader; The Future Is in Eggs; It Takes All Kinds to Make a World
“Logic is a very beautiful thing. As long as it is not abused.”
“Of course, not everything is unsayable in words, only the living truth.”
“God is dead. Marx is dead. And I don't feel so well myself.”
Source: Amedee, The New Tenant, Victims of Duty: Three Plays
“Good men make good rhinoceroses, unfortunately.”
Source: Rhinoceros and Other Plays: Includes: The Leader; The Future Is in Eggs; It Takes All Kinds to Make a World
Source: Rhinoceros and Other Plays: Includes: The Leader; The Future Is in Eggs; It Takes All Kinds to Make a World
“The more I try to explain myself, the less I understand myself.”
“We are made to be immortal, and yet we die. It's horrible, it can't be taken seriously”
“Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together.”
“Explanation separates us from astonishment, which is the only gateway to the incomprehensible.”
“People who don't read are brutes. It is better to write than to make war, isn't it?”
“Oh words, what crimes are committed in your name? ~Jack or The Submission”
Source: Rhinoceros and Other Plays: Includes: The Leader; The Future Is in Eggs; It Takes All Kinds to Make a World
“I still forget, sometimes, that I am no longer 12 years old.”
“I'll never waste my dreams by falling asleep. Never again.”
Source: Rhinoceros and Other Plays: Includes: The Leader; The Future Is in Eggs; It Takes All Kinds to Make a World
“It isn't what people think that is important, but the reason they think what they think.”