Eugene Ionesco Quotes

We are made to be immortal, and yet we die. It's horrible, it can't be taken seriously.

Eugene Ionesco

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• The only thing that is real is the being in you that is going to die.

  

  Carlos Castaneda
  • Real
  • You
  • Die

• Anyone can die. Rule number one is don't get too attached to a character, anyone can go.

  

  Jack Huston
  • Character
  • Die
  • Rule

• To himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know that he is dead.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • May
  • Death
  • Know

• To retire is to begin to die.

  

  Pablo Casals
  • Die
  • Begin
  • Retire

• Only the young die good.

  

  Oliver Herford
  • Good
  • Die
  • Young

• When I was very young I was sort of floored by the fact that my mother and my father and everyone I knew was going to die one day, and myself too. I had a sort of a philosophical crisis. I couldn't believe that we were mortal.

  

  Lana Del Rey
  • Believe
  • Mother
  • Father

• When your time comes to die, be not like those whose hearts are filled with fear of death, so that when their time comes they weep and pray for a little more time to live their lives over again in a different way. Sing your death song, and die like a hero going home.

  

  Tecumseh
  • Time
  • Different
  • Live

• I miss animation very passionately. Not continuously, but every once in a while I would die to do another film.

  

  Ralph Bakshi
  • Die
  • Film
  • Animation

• When you have been born in a war like me, living in a war as a child, when you have been in wars as a war correspondent all your life - trust me! You develop a form of fatalism; you are always ready to die.

  

  Oriana Fallaci
  • Life
  • War
  • Die

• The origin of all revolutions and corruption, and the spur and source of all base morals are just two sayings: The First Saying: 'So long as I'm full, what is it to me if others die of hunger?' The Second Saying: 'You suffer hardship so that I can live in ease; you work so that I can eat.'

  

  Said Nursi
  • Work
  • Long
  • Live

• I'd like to die with my boots on.

  

  Daniel Berrigan
  • Die
  • Like
  • Boots

• My friends, this is a wholly unprepared speech. I did not expect to be called upon to say a word when I came here. I supposed I was merely to do something towards raising a flag. I may, therefore, have said something indiscreet, but I have said nothing but what I am willing to live by, and, in the pleasure of Almighty God, die by.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • God
  • Live
  • May

• Inconsiderate to the last, Josef Stalin, a man who never had to meet a deadline, had the bad taste to die in installments.

  

  A. J. Liebling
  • Bad
  • Die

• Perhaps it is fortunate that most heroes who die for their people cannot come back to see what the people do with that hard-bought life and freedom.

  

  Tad Williams
  • People
  • Life
  • Freedom

• 'Poor humans; they will all die.''Poor us; we will not.'

  

  Vernor Vinge
  • Die

• Der Lehrer der Liebe lehrt den Kampf, der Lehrer der lieblosen Isolierung von aller Welt aber die Ruhe.

  

  Karl Jaspers
  • Die

• To die every day to every problem, every pleasure, and not carry over any problem at all; so the mind remains tremendously attentive, active, clear.

  

  Jiddu Krishnamurti
  • Mind
  • Die

• You will die - and it will all be over. You will die and find out everything - or cease asking.

  

  Leo Tolstoy
  • Die

• Suppose atomic bombs had reduced the population of the world to one brother and one sister, should they let the human race die out? I do not know the answer, but I do not think it can be in the affirmative merely on the ground that incest is wicked.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • World
  • Die
  • Brother

• Down on the ground, we seem to do anything but make lengthy, robust monologues. We can communicate in an instant almost anywhere. Gone is the slow old letter - itself a monologue, a sort of considered performance of best self - and in its place is the e-mail, the text, the SMS, the tweet.

  

  Samantha Harvey
  • Best
  • Self
  • Performance

• Journalism still, in a democracy, is the essential force to get the public educated and mobilized to take action on behalf of our ancient ideals.

  

  Doris Kearns Goodwin
  • Action
  • Democracy

• Having lots of people talking highly of you and respecting your art and your work, this is one of the best feelings that you can have.

  

  Peter Gabriel Genesis
  • People
  • Work
  • Art

• We are made to be immortal, and yet we die. It's horrible, it can't be taken seriously.

  

  Eugene Ionesco
  • Die
  • Immortal