Eugène Ionesco citations célèbres
“Je ne fais pas de la littérature. Je fais une chose tout à fait différente; je fais du théâtre.”
Notes et contre-notes, 1962
Rhinocéros
Eugène Ionesco Citations
Eugène Ionesco: Citations en anglais
The Paris Review interview (1984)
The Paris Review interview (1984)
The Paris Review interview (1984)
“Pray to the I don't-know-who
I hope : Jesus Christ.”
Prier le Je Ne Sais Qui
J'espère : Jesus-Christ.
Inscription on his tombstone.
Variant translation: Pray to the I don't-know-who: Jesus Christ, I hope.
As quoted in Parasuicidality and Paradox : Breaking Through the Medical Model (2007) by Ross D. Ellenhorn, p. 55
“It's not a certain society that seems ridiculous to me, it's mankind.”
As quoted in Encyclopedia of World Biography (1998) edited by Suzanne Michele Bourgoin, Paula Kay Byers, Gale Research Inc, p. 132
Victimes du Devoir [Victims of Duty] (1953)
Berenger's last sentence from Rhinoceros (1959)
Notes and Counter-Notes (1964), as translated by Donald Watson, p. 33
The Paris Review interview (1984)
Victimes du Devoir [Victims of Duty] (1953)
“People who don’t read are brutes. It is better to write than to make war, isn’t it?”
The Paris Review interview (1984)
“It isn't what people think that's important, but the reason they think what they think.”
As quoted in Peter's Quotations : Ideas for Our Time (1977) by Laurence J. Peter, p. 468; also in The Quantum Dice (1993) by Leonid Ivanovich Ponomarev, p. 50
Amédée from Amédée or How to Get Rid of It (1954)
le canular refers to hoaxes, humorous deceptions. -->
The Paris Review interview (1984)
“God is dead. Marx is dead. And I don’t feel so well myself.”
As quoted in Jewish American Literature : A Norton Anthology (2000) by Jules Chametzky, "Jewish Humor", p. 318
“Everything that has been will be, everything that will be is, everything that will be has been.”
Attributed in The Little Book of Romanian Wisdom (2011) edited by Diana Doroftei and Matthew Cross