Memory Light Quotes by Eugène Ionesco

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

“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

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

— Eugene Ionesco

“Rhinoceros The Leader The Future is in Eggs or It Takes all Sorts to Make a World”

— Eugène Ionesco

Every message of despair is the statement of a situation from which everybody must freely try to find a way out.

— Eugene Ionesco

I've always been suspicious of collective truths.

— Eugene Ionesco

Shakespeare was the great one before us. His place was between God and despair.

— Eugene Ionesco

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

— Eugene Ionesco

“All doctors are quacks. And all patients too. Only the Royal Navy is honest in England.”

— Eugène Ionesco

That's how we stay young these days: murder and suicide.

— Eugene Ionesco

“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

“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