Eugene Ionesco Quotes

A person who has not completely lost the memory of paradise, even though it is a faint one, will suffer endlessly. He will feel the call of the essential world, will hear the voice that comes from so far away that one cannot find out where it comes from, a voice that cannot guide him.

Eugene Ionesco

• Voice
• Memory
• Paradise
• Guide

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• If you love attention and have a pretty decent voice, that's a pretty good combination.

  

  Zara Larsson
  • Good
  • Pretty
  • Attention

• High fashion has become representative of stability in unstable places; that allows you to have a voice in the world stage.

  

  Hailey Gates
  • World
  • High
  • Fashion

• What a liberation to realize that the 'voice in my head' is not who I am. 'Who am I, then?' The one who sees that.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Voice
  • Head
  • Realize

• I think my mom exposed me to the concept of using your voice for anything you care about.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Mom
  • Care
  • Voice

• Literature is memory written down. All literature is memory.

  

  Wayne Grady
  • Literature
  • Memory
  • Down

• Memory tempers prosperity, mitigates adversity, controls youth, and delights old age.

  

  Lactantius
  • Age
  • Memory
  • Adversity

• I think Robert Plant is the quintessential frontman - just the way he moves. His voice is superhuman.

  

  Taylor Momsen
  • Think
  • Voice
  • Plant

• Even as one and the same person is called by different names according to the different functions he performs, so also one and the same mind is called by the different names: mind, intellect, memory, and egoity, on account of the difference in the modes - and not because of any real difference.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • Different
  • Mind
  • Real

• Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of impatience we cannot return.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Sin
  • Paradise
  • Return

• Even when things are at their worst, there's a little voice in your head saying, 'Good story!'

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Good
  • Voice
  • Saying

• How come I love having an episode of deja vu? It's akin to an out-of-body experience, I would think. It sits with me, happily, begging me to delve into my memory to find its match point.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Love
  • Experience
  • Memory

• I've only used my own voice about four times on film.

  

  Ian Hart
  • Film
  • Voice
  • Own

• It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life.

  

  P. D. James
  • Life
  • Nature
  • Perfect

• I'm a writer who simply can't know what I'm writing about until the writing lets me discover it. In a sense, my writing process embraces the gapped nature of my memory process, leaping across spaces that represent all I've lost and establishing fresh patterns within all that remains.

  

  Floyd Skloot
  • Writing
  • Nature
  • Lost

• Honest people remember stories in the order of emotional prominence, but liars will recount a story in chronological order. Memory rarely works that way.

  

  Pamela Meyer
  • People
  • Remember
  • Emotional

• It's more than a little ironic that the mantra that swept Bill Clinton into office is exactly what prevented Hillary from winning it. Somehow, the Manhattan billionaire became the voice of the disaffected blue-collar middle class in states like Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Michigan.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • Winning
  • Voice
  • Blue

• I'm more interested in having a place to work out my voice and my body than I am in having furniture.

  

  Wendy O. Williams
  • Work
  • Body
  • Voice

• If genetic memory or racial memory persists, is it possible that individual memory also exists from previous lives?

  

  Taylor Caldwell
  • Memory
  • Possible
  • Racial

• Mistress of love or of hate, occult science can dispense paradise or hell at its pleasure to human hearts; it disposes of all forms and confers beauty or ugliness; with the wand of Circe it changes men into brutes and animals alternately into men.

  

  Eliphas Levi
  • Men
  • Science
  • Hate

• I'm trying to enlarge what I do with my voice, not through technique but just through the sounds. I think we all make noises, and particularly when we get involved or emotional about something, the colors and the tones of those noises change.

  

  Peter Gabriel Genesis
  • Voice
  • Sounds
  • Enlarge

• My wife and I ran through 'Justified' in, like, a day. And that is such a funny, amazing show.

  

  Adam Pally
  • Funny
  • Day
  • Amazing

• I'm not anti-Jew. Jews are respected by everyone, like all human beings, and I respect them very much.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • Respect

• Do you ever sit back and wonder what it all means? Whether this is it or if there's something greater out there? Or if you were meant for something better?

  

  Nicholas Sparks
  • Wonder
  • Greater
  • Sit Back

• A person who has not completely lost the memory of paradise, even though it is a faint one, will suffer endlessly. He will feel the call of the essential world, will hear the voice that comes from so far away that one cannot find out where it comes from, a voice that cannot guide him.

  

  Eugene Ionesco
  • Voice
  • Memory
  • Paradise