166 Quotes by Eugene Ionesco

A civil servant doesn't make jokes.

The true nature of things, truth itself, can be revealed to us only through fantasy, which is more realistic than all the realisms.

Childhood is the world of miracle or of magic. It is as if creation rose luminously out of the night, all new and fresh and astonishing. Childhood is over the moment things are no longer astonishing.

Childhood is the world of miracle and wonders as if a creation of rose, balked in light, out of darkness, utterly new and astonishing. The end of childhood is when things cease to astonish us. When the world seems familiar, when one had got used to existence, one has become an adult.