Famous quotes by Eugene Ionesco:

"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."

"Living is abnormal."

"We have not the time to take our time."

"You've always made the mistake of being yourself"

"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."

"The light of memory, or rather the light that memory lends to things, is the palest light of all. I am not quite sure whether I am dreaming or remembering, whether I have lived my life or dreamed it. Just as dreams do, memory makes me profoundly awar"

"A work of art is above all an adventure of the mind"

"Everything that has been will be, everything that will be is, everything that will be has been."

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

"Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together."

"A civil servant doesn't make jokes."

"I've always been suspicious of collective truths."

"Like all revolutions, the surrealist revolution was a reversion, a restitution, an expression of vital and indispensable spiritual needs."

"You can only predict things after they have happened."

"A nose that can see is worth two that sniff."

"There is no religion in which everyday life is not considered a prison; there is no philosophy or ideology that does not think that we live in alienation."

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

"A work of art is above all an adventure of the mind."