The end of childhood is when things cease to astonish us. When the world seems familiar, when one has got used to existence, one has become an adult. Eugene Ionesco More Quotes by Eugene Ionesco More Quotes From Eugene Ionesco Why do people always expect authors to answer questions? I am an author because I want to ask questions. If I had answers, I'd be a politician. Eugene Ionesco answers writing people The universe seems to me infinitely strange and foreign. At such a moment I gaze upon it with a mixture of anguish and euphoria; separate from the universe, as though placed at a certain distance outside it; I look and I see pictures, creatures that move in a kind of timeless time and spaceless space, emitting sounds that are a kind of language I no longer understand or ever register. Eugene Ionesco distance science moving You've always made the mistake of being yourself. Eugene Ionesco being-yourself made mistake There are more dead people than living. And their numbers are increasing. The living are getting rarer. Eugene Ionesco numbers death people I personally would like to bring a tortoise onto the stage, turn it into a racehorse, then into a hat, a song, a dragoon and a fountain of water. One can dare anything in the theatre and it is the place where one dares the least. Eugene Ionesco theatre song water Banality is a symptom of non-communication. Men hide behind their cliches. Eugene Ionesco cliche communication men I started writing for the theatre because I hated it. Eugene Ionesco hated theatre writing I still forget, sometimes, that I am no longer 12 years old. Eugene Ionesco forget sometimes years 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 causes beauty death People who don't read are brutes. It is better to write than to make war, isn't it? Eugene Ionesco brutes people The critic should describe, and not prescribe. Eugene Ionesco critics should We are all looking for something of extraordinary importance whose nature we have forgotten; I am writing the memoirs of a man who has lost his memory. Eugene Ionesco writing men memories Boredom flourishes too, when you feel safe. It's a symptom of security. Eugene Ionesco boredom safe blessing As soon as one knows one is going to die, childhood is over.... So one can be grown up at seven. Then, I believe most human beings forget what they have understood, recover another sort of childhood that can last all their lives. It is not a true childhood but a kind of forgetting. Desires and anxieties are there, preventing you from having access to the essential truth. Eugene Ionesco philosophical childhood believe A work of art is above all an adventure of the mind. Eugene Ionesco adventure travel art If I write a new play, my point of view may be profoundly modified. I may be obliged to contradict myself and I may no longer know whether I still think what I think. Eugene Ionesco views writing thinking Mediocrity is more dangerous in a critic than in a writer. Eugene Ionesco mediocrity dangerous writing A nose that can see is worth two that sniff. Eugene Ionesco smell noses two Shakespeare was the great one before us. His place was between God and despair. Eugene Ionesco great-ones despair You can only predict things after they have happened. Eugene Ionesco rhinoceros happened
