WIST Quotations

Ionesco, Eugene -- (Attributed)

Dave — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 12:14:01 +0000

Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together.

Eugène Ionesco (1912-1994) Romanian-French dramatist
(Attributed)

Ionesco, Eugene -- Découvertes (1970)

Dave — Sun, 01 Feb 2004 16:00:00 +0000

It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question.

Eugène Ionesco (1912-1994) Romanian-French dramatist
Découvertes (1970)

Ionesco, Eugene -- Fragments of a Journal [Journal en Miettes], “The Crisis of Language” (1967) [tr. Stewart (1968)]

Dave — Wed, 06 Mar 2024 15:19:57 +0000

Childhood is the world of miracle and wonder; as if creation rose, bathed in light out of the darkness, utterly new and fresh and astonishing. The end of childhood is when things cease to astonish us. When the world seems familiar, when one has got used to existence, one has become adult. The brave new world, the wonderland has grown trite and commonplace.

[L’enfance c’est le monde du miracle ou du merveilleux: c’est comme si la creation surgissait, lumineuse, de la nuit, toute neuve et toute fraîche, et tout étonnante. Il n’y a plus d’enfance à partir du moment où les choses ne sont plus étonnantes. Lorsque le monde vous semble «déja vu», lorsqu’on s’est habitué à l’existence, on devient adulte. Le monde de la féerie, la merveille neuve se fait banalité, cliché.]

Eugène Ionesco (1912-1994) Romanian-French dramatist
Fragments of a Journal [Journal en Miettes], “The Crisis of Language” (1967) [tr. Stewart (1968)]
(Source)

(Source (French)).

Ionesco, Eugene -- Jacques, or the Submission [Jacques] (1955)

Dave — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 13:54:20 +0000

Oh words, what crimes are committed in your name!

Eugène Ionesco (1912-1994) Romanian-French dramatist
Jacques, or the Submission [Jacques] (1955)