166 Quotes by Eugene Ionesco

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

Spuneţi repede, domnule, că n-am vreme. Eu sînt la odihnă.

A writer never has a vacation. For a writer, life consists of either writing, or thinking about writing.

I ought not to have stirred, I was swept into the dance, caught up in the whirling movement of things. Being in Time means running after the present. You run after things, you run with things, you flow away.

Living is abnormal.

If I tell these private thoughts of mine, it is because I know they are not mine alone, and that practically everyone is trying to say the same things and that the writer is only a man who says out loud what other people think or whisper.

He would say ect. instead of ect., and thus instead of ect., instead of ect. and thus and so forth!

El lógico (al Señor anciano): Aquí tiene un silogismo ejemplar. El gato tiene cuatro patas. Isidoro y Fricot tienen cada uno cuatro patas. Por lo tanto Isidoro y Fricot son gatos. El señor anciano (al Lógico): Mi perro también tiene cuatro patas.El lógico (al Señor anciano): Entonces es un gato.

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