Eugene Ionesco
Eugene Ionesco
Eugène Ionesco; 26 November 1909 – 28 March 1994) was a Romanian-French playwright who wrote mostly in French, and one of the foremost figures of the French Avant-garde theatre. Beyond ridiculing the most banal situations, Ionesco's plays depict the solitude and insignificance of human existence in a tangible way...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionPlaywright
Date of Birth26 November 1909
CountryFrance
pessimistic obligation
Nothing makes me more pessimistic than the obligation not to be pessimistic.
two noses sniffing
A nose that can see is worth two that sniff.
long solitude
I long for solitude and yet I cannot stand it.
government servant jokes
A civil servant doesn't make jokes.
world ridiculous painful
To me the world seems grotesque, absurd, ridiculous, painful.
time havens
We haven't the time to take out time.
wall doe world
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?
years forget sometimes
I still forget, sometimes, that I am no longer 12 years old.
circles vicious turns
Describe a circle, stroke its back and it turns vicious.
effort language break
Language should almost break up or explode in its fruitless effort to contain so many meanings.
collectives suspicious
I've always been suspicious of collective truths.
courses
Of course, not everything is unsayable in words, only the living truth.
drama successful play
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.
taken made immortal
We are made to be immortal, and yet we die. It's horrible, it can't be taken seriously