Quotes by Ionesco, Eugene

There is no religion in which everyday life is not considered a prison >>

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

For me, it is as though at every moment the actual world had completel >>

Quotations about Memory

Don't remember what you can infer. >>

The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the sam >>

He is indebted to his memory for his jests and to his imagination for >>

The light of memory, or rather the light that memory lends to things, is the palest light of all. I am not quite sure whether I am dreaming or remembering, whether I have lived my life or dreamed it. Just as dreams do, memory makes me profoundly aware of the unreality, the evanescence of the world, a fleeting image in the moving water.

Ionesco, Eugene