Quotes by Ionesco, Eugene

There is nothing truer than myth: history, in its attempt to realize m >>

I believe that in the history of art and of thought there has always b >>

No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system >>

Quotations about Reality

Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. >>

Reality, if rightly interpreted, is grander than fiction. >>

We must learn to tailor our concepts to fit reality, instead of trying >>

Realism, whether it be socialist or not, falls short of reality. It shrinks it, attenuates it, falsifies it; it does not take into account our basic truths and our fundamental obsessions: love, death, astonishment. It presents man in a reduced and estranged perspective. Truth is in our dreams, in the imagination.

Ionesco, Eugene