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
childhood world adults
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.
our-time
We have not the time to take our time.
travel art adventure
A work of art is above all an adventure of the mind.
laughing conscious masters
To become conscious of what is horrifying and to laugh at it is to become master of that which is horrifying
death numbers people
There are more dead people than living. And their numbers are increasing. The living are getting rarer.
childhood moments astonishing
Childhood is over the moment things are no longer astonishing.
beauty death causes
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.
despair great-ones
Shakespeare was the great one before us. His place was between God and despair.
has-beens
Everything that has been will be, everything that will be is, everything that will be has been.
hate night vanity
I have no other pictures of the world apart from those which express evanescence, and callousness, vanity and anger, emptiness, orhideous useless hate. Everything has merely confirmed what I had seen and understood in my childhood: futile and sordid fits of rage, cries suddenly blanketed by the silence, shadows swallowed up for ever by the night.
doctors captains ships
A really conscientious doctor ought to die with his patient. The captain goes down with his ship.
names crime submission
Oh words, what crimes are committed in your name? ~Jack or The Submission
boredom safe symptoms
Boredom flourishes too, when you feel safe. It's a symptom of security.
pessimistic obligation
Nothing makes me more pessimistic than the obligation not to be pessimistic.