166 Quotes by Eugene Ionesco

Marx was wrong; jealousy and pride, emotional forces, are just as responsible as hunger and necessity for our actions; they explain the whole of History, and the initial fall of man.

There is nothing truer than myth: history, in its attempt to ''realize'' myth, distorts it, stops halfway; when history claims to have ''succeeded,'' this is nothing but humbug and mystification. Everything we dream is ''realizable.'' Reality does not have to be: it is simply what it is.

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

Banality is a symptom of non-communication. Men hide behind their clichTs.

The unpleasant thing about society today is nowadays is that there is a confusion between people and their function; or rather, people are tempted to identify with the function they perform. This is what's happening, particularly in totalitarian soc

Why was I born, if it wasn't forever?

Every message of despair is the statement of a situation from which everybody must freely try to find a way out.

It's not a certain society that seems ridiculous to me, it's mankind,

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