Quotes by Ionesco, Eugene

The light of memory, or rather the light that memory lends to things, >>

A work of art is above all an adventure of the mind. >>

Beauty is a precious trace that eternity causes to appear to us and th >>

Quotations about Death and Dying

I never wanted to see anybody die, but there are a few obituary notice >>

I have seen a thousand graves opened, and always perceived that whatev >>

I can die when I wish to: that is my elixir of life. >>

Since the death instinct exists in the heart of everything that lives, since we suffer from trying to repress it, since everything that lives longs for rest, let us unfasten the ties that bind us to life, let us cultivate our death wish, let us develop it, water it like a plant, let it grow unhindered. Suffering and fear are born from the repression of the death wish.

Ionesco, Eugene