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
writing thinking play
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.
two noses sniffing
A nose that can see is worth two that sniff.
writing mediocrity dangerous
Mediocrity is more dangerous in a critic than in a writer.
evil people trying
People always try to find base motives behind every good action. We are afraid of pure goodness and of pure evil.
memories voice suffering
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.
long solitude
I long for solitude and yet I cannot stand it.
government servant jokes
A civil servant doesn't make jokes.
writing theatre hated
I started writing for the theatre because I hated it.
world ridiculous painful
To me the world seems grotesque, absurd, ridiculous, painful.
time havens
We haven't the time to take out time.
dream fall waste
I'll never waste my dreams by falling asleep. Never again.
dream reality profound
Dreams are reality at its most profound.
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.