Eugene Ionesco Quotes
It's only when I say that everything is incomprehensible that I come as close as possible to understanding the only thing it is given to us to understand.
Quotes to Explore
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Intimate relationships are a gold mine for literature to explore, to understand, to describe.
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I understand the desire to write and read about the death of publishing. It's a perversely and universally appealing topic.
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You have to really love women in order to really just have a respect for women and love them. No man - I don't care what kind of man it is, how feminine he is - they never could understand what we go through as far as physically and mentally.
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I have trusted to my intuition to find the subjects, and I have written intuitively. I have an idea when I start, I have a shape; but I will fully understand what I have written only after some years.
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The kitchen is where we deal with the elements of the universe. It is where we come to understand our past and ourselves.
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It's hard for us to really understand the immensity so far of the conquest of space.
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Well, only Japanese may understand it, but I'm like a goat or something that likes high places.
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I decided that Europeans and Americans are like men and women: they understand each other worse, and it matters less, than either of them suppose.
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I prefer being as far from the centre of celebrity as possible.
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I veer away from trying to understand why I act. I just know I need to do it.
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It's no use of talking unless people understand what you say.
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Religion is the impotence of the human mind to deal with occurrences it cannot understand.
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I like to get physical on defense. I like to get up on a guy as much as possible. I actually need to calm down, though.
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When you are suffering, you become more understanding about yourself, but also about other people's sufferings too. That's the first step to understand somebody is to understand their sufferings. So then love follows.
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Perhaps if all the peoples of the world understand what war really means, we would eliminate it.
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If one must fight or create, it is necessary that this be preceded by the broadest possible knowledge.
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What drives that desire to destroy Paris Hilton? What drives that desire to venerate Angelina Jolie? I do understand it, but it still baffles me. It baffles me when people treat me specially and differently, because I just want to look at them and go, 'What are you talking about? I'm just a person.'
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I have come to understand that in order to effectively advance women's rights, we need to galvanize a global women's movement.
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I was driven completely by a desire to understand how cells worked.
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Judgment is contained in the act of trying to understand.
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In 1595, by order of the Privy Council, the English armed services abandoned the longbow and fought with muskets for the next two centuries and more. Nobody is sure why.
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Being married gives one one's position like nothing else can.
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Living a life of faith means never knowing where you are being led - but it does mean loving and knowing the One who is leading. It is literally a life of FAITH, not of understanding and reason- - a life of knowing Him who calls us to go.
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It's only when I say that everything is incomprehensible that I come as close as possible to understanding the only thing it is given to us to understand.
