People always try to find base motives behind every good action. We are afraid of pure goodness and of pure evil. — Eugene Ionesco Copy Share Image
It isn't what people think that is important, but the reason they think what they think — Eugene Ionesco Copy Share Image
There are more dead people than living. And their numbers are increasing. The living are getting rarer. — Eugene Ionesco Copy Share Image
People who don't read are brutes. It is better to write than to make war, isn't it? — Eugene Ionesco Copy Share Image
“Solitude seems to oppress me. And so does the company of other people.” — Eugène Ionesco Copy Share Image
Many people have delusions of grandeur but you're deluded by triviality. — Eugene Ionesco Copy Share Image
My plays have been performed before children, workers, and peasants, and they have well understood the meaning of my theatre. What is… — Eugene Ionesco Copy Share Image
Why do people always expect authors to answer questions? I am an author because I want to ask questions. If I had… — Eugene Ionesco Copy Share Image
The supreme trick of mass insanity is that it persuades you that the only abnormal person is the one who refuses to… — Eugene Ionesco Copy Share Image
I am, it seems, an avant-garde dramatist. It would even seem obvious since I am present here at discussions on the avant-garde theatre. It… — Eugene Ionesco Copy Share
“My boy! It's really true, you really love hashed brown potatoes? You make me so happy. JACK [without conviction]: Yes, I like them, I… — Eugène Ionesco Copy Share
Everything that has been will be, everything that will be is, everything that will be has been. — Eugene Ionesco Copy Share
“Rhinoceros The Leader The Future is in Eggs or It Takes all Sorts to Make a World” — Eugène Ionesco Copy Share
Every message of despair is the statement of a situation from which everybody must freely try to find a way out. — Eugene Ionesco Copy Share
Shakespeare was the great one before us. His place was between God and despair. — Eugene Ionesco Copy Share
“All doctors are quacks. And all patients too. Only the Royal Navy is honest in England.” — Eugène Ionesco Copy Share
“I read a page of Plato's great work. I can no longer understand anything, because behind the words on the page, which have their… — Eugène Ionesco Copy Share
“MRS. SMITH: Well, this is how it was. It is difficult for me to speak openly to you, but a fireman is also a… — Eugène Ionesco Copy Share
Realism falls short of reality. It shrinks it, attenuates it, falsifies it; it does not take into account our basic truths and our fundamental… — Eugene Ionesco Copy Share
