Theatre Quotes by Eugène Ionesco

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I am, it seems, an avant-garde dramatist. It would even seem obvious since I am present here at discussions on the avant-garde…

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

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All theatre is absurd.

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I personally would like to bring a tortoise onto the stage, turn it into a racehorse, then into a hat, a song,…

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My plays have been performed before children, workers, and peasants, and they have well understood the meaning of my theatre. What is…

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I started writing for the theatre because I hated it.

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Theatre is simply what cannot be expressed by any other means; a complexity of words, movements, gestures that convey a vision of…

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

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

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

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I've always been suspicious of collective truths.

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

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

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

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

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“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 own heavenly brightness, to be sure, there shines an even brighter, an enormous, dazzling -why- that blots out everything, cancels out, destroys all meaning. All individual intelligence. When one has understood, one stops, satisfied with what…

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“MRS. SMITH: Well, this is how it was. It is difficult for me to speak openly to you, but a fireman is also a…

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