“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 aware of the unreality, the evanescence of the world, a fleeting image in the moving water.”
Eugène Ionesco“We have not the time to take our time.”
Eugene Ionesco“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.”
Eugene Ionesco“Beauty is a precious trace that eternity causes to appear to us and that it takes away from us. A manifestation of eternity, and a sign of death as well.”
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.”
Eugene Ionesco“Culture cannot be separated from politics. The arts, philosophy and metaphysics, religion and the sciences, constitute culture. Politics are the science or art of organizing our relationships to allow for the development of life in society.”
Eugene Ionesco“A work of art is above all an adventure of the mind.”
Eugene Ionesco“Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together.”
Eugene Ionesco“Every message of despair is the statement of a situation from which everybody must freely try to find a way out.”
Eugene Ionesco“You can only predict things after they've happened.”
Eugene Ionesco“Theatre is simply what cannot be expressed by any other means a complexity of words movements gestures that convey a vision of the world inexpressible in any other way.”
Eugene Ionesco