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.
More quotes from Eugene Ionesco
A work of art is above all an adventure of the mind.
Romanian-French playwright (1909-1994)
Shakespeare was the great one before us. His place was between God and despair.
Romanian-French playwright (1909-1994)
You can only predict things after they have happened.
Romanian-French playwright (1909-1994)
It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question.
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.
Romanian-French playwright (1909-1994)
A man with a soul is not like every other man.
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.
Romanian-French playwright (1909-1994)
A civil servant doesn’t make jokes.
Romanian-French playwright (1909-1994)
Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together.
Romanian-French playwright (1909-1994)
A nose that can see is worth two that sniff.
Romanian-French playwright (1909-1994)
I’ve always been suspicious of collective truths.
Romanian-French playwright (1909-1994)
We have not the time to take our time.
Romanian-French playwright (1909-1994)
Explanation separates us from astonishment, which is the only gateway to the incomprehensible.
Romanian-French playwright (1909-1994)
The critic should describe, and not prescribe.
Romanian-French playwright (1909-1994)
Everything that has been will be, everything that will be is, everything that will be has been.
Romanian-French playwright (1909-1994)
Living is abnormal.
Romanian-French playwright (1909-1994)
Like all revolutions, the surrealist revolution was a reversion, a restitution, an expression of vital and indispensable spiritual needs.
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.
Romanian-French playwright (1909-1994)