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
trying despair way
Every message of despair is the statement of a situation from which everybody must freely try to find a way out.
philosophy thinking everyday
There is no religion in which everyday life is not considered a prison; there is no philosophy or ideology that does not think that we live in alienation.
suicide murder these-days
That's how we stay young these days: murder and suicide.
life-and-death forever born
Why was I born, if it wasn't forever?
time ephemeral lasting
Only the ephemeral is of lasting value.
distance moving space
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.