166 Quotes by Eugene Ionesco

A civil servant doesn’t make jokes.

Boredom flourishes too, when you feel safe. It’s a symptom of security.

Many people have delusions of grandeur but you’re deluded by triviality.

That’s how we stay young these days: murder and suicide.

I just can’t get used to life.

It’s when I am fully conscious that I ask questions.

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.

It’s only when I say that everything is incomprehensible that I come as close as possible to understanding the only thing it is given to us to understand.

I’ll never waste my dreams by falling asleep. Never again.