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
happened rhinoceros
You can only predict things after they have happened.
dream fall answers
I am told, in a dream ... you can only get the answer to all your questions through a dream. So in my dream, I fall asleep, and I dream, in my dream, that I'm having that absolute, revealing dream.
astonishment gateways explanation
Explanation separates us from astonishment, which is the only gateway to the incomprehensible.
trying
The more I try to explain myself, the less I understand myself.
humorous years able
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.
missing sake way
Oh righteous doom, that they who make Pleasure their only end, Ordering the whole life for its sake, Miss that whereto they tend. While they who bid stern duty lead, Content to follow, they, Of duty only taking heed, Find pleasure by the way.
ridiculous certain mankind
It's not a certain society that seems ridiculous to me, it's mankind,
being-yourself mistake made
You've always made the mistake of being yourself.
use tribes poet
The poet cannot invent new words every time, of course. He uses the words of the tribe. But the handling of the word, the accent, a new articulation, renew them.
philosophical light silence
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...
drama lying reality
Drama lies in extreme exaggeration of the feelings, an exaggeration that dislocates flat everyday reality.
should critics
The critic should describe, and not prescribe....
philosophical conscious asks
It's when I am fully conscious that I ask questions.
illusions-of-grandeur people triviality
Many people have delusions of grandeur but you're deluded by triviality.