Eugene Ionesco Quotes

Eugene Ionesco
French Dramatist
Born: Nov 26, 1909
Died: Mar 28, 1994
Art Been Culture Life Man Politics
Related authors: Alexandre Dumas Antonin Artaud Jean Genet Jean Giraudoux Jean Racine Jules Renard Marcel Pagnol Pierre Corneille
I look out the chair while eating my pillow. I open the wall, I walk with my ears. I have ten eyes to walk with and two fingers to look with. I put my head on the floor to sit down, I put my bottom on the ceiling. After eating the music box, I spread jam on the rug for a great dessert. Eugene Ionesco
Music Great Eyes Walk Sit Down Rug Ears Dessert Out Eating Fingers Ten Open Bottom Put Head Look Box Spread Pillow Ceiling Wall Jam After While Chair Floor Two
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. Eugene Ionesco
Death Fear Sadness Political Vice Versa Pain Living Society Our System Has-Been Able Abolish Absolute Deliver Versa Been Condition Political System Human Vice Human Condition Social Us Thirst
Explanation separates us from astonishment, which is the only gateway to the incomprehensible. Eugene Ionesco
Astonishment Only Which Explanation Us Separates Incomprehensible Gateway
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. Eugene Ionesco
Life Religion Everyday Life Ideology Prison Live Think Everyday Alienation Considered Philosophy Does Which
The critic should describe, and not prescribe. Eugene Ionesco
Critic Should Describe Prescribe
I was born near Bucharest, but my parents came to France a year later. We moved back to Romania when I was thirteen, and my world was shattered. I hated Bucharest, its society, and its mores - its anti-Semitism for example. Eugene Ionesco
World Example Parents Year Anti-Semitism Society Back Later France Hated Born For Example Shattered Year Later Came Moved Romania Near Thirteen
The artist can be above political parties, he can belong in a political party, he can act in politics. Eugene Ionesco
Politics Political Party Above He Parties Political Parties Political Party Artist Act Belong
Like all revolutions, the surrealist revolution was a reversion, a restitution, an expression of vital and indispensable spiritual needs. Eugene Ionesco
Needs Spiritual Revolution Vital Indispensable Like Surrealist Revolutions Expression
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. Eugene Ionesco
Death Beauty Sign Takes Trace Well Causes Precious Manifestation Eternity Us Appear Away
You can only predict things after they have happened. Eugene Ionesco
You Predict Only After Happened Things
We have not the time to take our time. Eugene Ionesco
Time Our Our Time Take
Cut off from his religious, metaphysical and transcendental roots, man is lost; all his actions become senseless, absurd, useless. Eugene Ionesco
Man Become Lost Religious Absurd Metaphysical His Off Transcendental Senseless Cut Roots Useless Actions
Art goes beyond politics. Even if there are writers who are involved in politics, eventually, in one or two centuries, it's not their politics which is going to count, but the fact of having given life to feelings, of having created characters and made a living work of art. Eugene Ionesco
Life Work Politics Art Made Feelings Living Characters One Or Two Given Having Fact Writers Count Beyond Involved Goes Going Which Centuries Created Who Even Eventually Two
Often, alas, the most detestable kind of bourgeois is the anti-bourgeois kind of bourgeois. Eugene Ionesco
Kind Detestable Bourgeois Most Often Alas

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