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.

About Eugene Ionesco

Eugene Ionescowas a Romanian-French playwright who wrote mostly in French, and was one of the foremost figures of the French avant-garde theatre in the 20th century. Ionesco instigated a revolution in ideas and techniques of drama, beginning with his “anti play”, The Bald Soprano which contributed to the beginnings of what is known as the Theatre of the Absurd, which includes a number of plays that, following the ideas of the philosopher Albert Camus, explore concepts of absurdism and surrealism.

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A work of art is above all an adventure of the mind.

Eugene Ionesco

Romanian-French playwright (1909-1994)

Shakespeare was the great one before us. His place was between God and despair.

Eugene Ionesco

Romanian-French playwright (1909-1994)

You can only predict things after they have happened.

Eugene Ionesco

Romanian-French playwright (1909-1994)

It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question.

Eugene Ionesco

Romanian-French playwright (1909-1994)

No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, from our fear of death, our thirst for the absolute. It is the human condition that directs the social condition, not vice versa.

Eugene Ionesco

Romanian-French playwright (1909-1994)

A man with a soul is not like every other man.

Eugene Ionesco

Romanian-French playwright (1909-1994)

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.

Eugene Ionesco

Romanian-French playwright (1909-1994)

A civil servant doesn’t make jokes.

Eugene Ionesco

Romanian-French playwright (1909-1994)

Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together.

Eugene Ionesco

Romanian-French playwright (1909-1994)

A nose that can see is worth two that sniff.

Eugene Ionesco

Romanian-French playwright (1909-1994)

I’ve always been suspicious of collective truths.

Eugene Ionesco

Romanian-French playwright (1909-1994)

We have not the time to take our time.

Eugene Ionesco

Romanian-French playwright (1909-1994)

Explanation separates us from astonishment, which is the only gateway to the incomprehensible.

Eugene Ionesco

Romanian-French playwright (1909-1994)

The critic should describe, and not prescribe.

Eugene Ionesco

Romanian-French playwright (1909-1994)

Everything that has been will be, everything that will be is, everything that will be has been.

Eugene Ionesco

Romanian-French playwright (1909-1994)

Living is abnormal.

Eugene Ionesco

Romanian-French playwright (1909-1994)

Like all revolutions, the surrealist revolution was a reversion, a restitution, an expression of vital and indispensable spiritual needs.

Eugene Ionesco

Romanian-French playwright (1909-1994)

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.

Eugene Ionesco

Romanian-French playwright (1909-1994)