Many people have delusions of grandeur but you're deluded by triviality. Eugene Ionesco More Quotes by Eugene Ionesco More Quotes From Eugene Ionesco Childhood is the world of miracle or of magic: it is as if creation rose luminously out of the night, all new and fresh and astonishing. Childhood is over the moment things are no longer astonishing. When the world gives you a feeling of "déjà vu," when you are used to existence, you become an adult. Eugene Ionesco inspirational night children Oh words, what crimes are committed in your name? ~Jack or The Submission Eugene Ionesco submission crime names I've always been suspicious of collective truths. I think an idea is true when it hasn't been put into words and that the moment it's put into words it becomes exaggerated. Because the moment it's put into words there's an abuse, an excess in the expression of the idea that makes it false. Eugene Ionesco truth expression thinking To me the world seems grotesque, absurd, ridiculous, painful. Eugene Ionesco ridiculous painful world A person who has not completely lost the memory of paradise, even though it is a faint one, will suffer endlessly. He will feel the call of the essential world, will hear the voice that comes from so far away that one cannot find out where it comes from, a voice that cannot guide him. Eugene Ionesco voice suffering memories People always try to find base motives behind every good action. We are afraid of pure goodness and of pure evil. Eugene Ionesco evil trying people All the plays that have ever been written, from ancient Greece to the present day, have never really been anything but thrillers... Drama's always been realistic and there's always been a detective about... Every play's an investigation brought to a successful conclusion. Eugene Ionesco successful play drama That's how we stay young these days: murder and suicide. Eugene Ionesco these-days murder suicide Logic is a very beautiful thing. As long as it is not abused. Eugene Ionesco logic beautiful long Of course, not everything is unsayable in words, only the living truth. Eugene Ionesco courses I've always been suspicious of collective truths. Eugene Ionesco collectives suspicious When silence confronts us, the question to which there is no answer rings out in the silence. That ultimate "why," that great "why" is like a light that blots out everything, but a blinding light; nothing more can be made out. Eugene Ionesco philosophical silence light I'll never waste my dreams by falling asleep. Never again. Eugene Ionesco waste dream fall Like all revolutions, the surrealist revolution was a reversion, a restitution, an expression of vital and indispensable spiritual needs. Eugene Ionesco expression spiritual needs Every message of despair is the statement of a situation from which everybody must freely try to find a way out. Eugene Ionesco despair trying way There is nothing truer than myth: history, in its attempt to realize myth, distorts it, stops halfway; when history claims to have succeeded, this is nothing but humbug and mystification. Everything we dream is realizable. Reality does not have to be: it is simply what it is. Eugene Ionesco dream history reality When I was born, I was almost fourteen years old. That's why I was able to understand more easily than most what it was all about. Eugene Ionesco able humorous years The human comedy does not attract me enough. I am not entirely of this world. I am from elsewhere, and it is worth finding this elsewhere beyond the walls...but where is it? Eugene Ionesco wall doe world 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 everyday philosophy thinking The brightest light, the light of Italy, the purest sky of Scandinavia in the month of June is only a half-light when one compares it to the light of childhood. Even the nights were blue. Eugene Ionesco inspirational kids children
