Eugene Ionesco Quotes

The supreme trick of mass insanity is that it persuades you that the only abnormal person is the one who refuses to join in the madness of others, the one who tries vainly to resist. We will never understand totalitarianism if we do not understand that people rarely have the strength to be uncommon.

Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together.

Drama lies in extreme exaggeration of the feelings, an exaggeration that dislocates flat everyday reality.

The critic should describe, and not prescribe.

I’ve always been suspicious of collective truths.

To me the world seems grotesque, absurd, ridiculous, painful.

Shakespeare was the great one before us. His place was between God and despair.

Language should almost break up or explode in its fruitless effort to contain so many meanings.

People who don’t read are brutes. It is better to write than to make war, isn’t it?

A civil servant doesn’t make jokes.

There are more dead people than living. And their numbers are increasing. The living are getting rarer.

It isn’t what people think that is important, but the reason they think what they think.