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

• If men were basically evil, who would bother to improve the world instead of giving it up as a bad job at the outset?

  

  Van Wyck Brooks
  • Up
  • World
  • Men

• Ignoring all prejudices of caste, creed, class, color, sex, or race, a swami follows the precepts of human brotherhood. His goal is absolute unity with Spirit.

  

  Paramahansa Yogananda
  • Sex
  • Goal
  • Color

• A person who does not read cannot think. He may have good mental processes, but he has nothing to think about. You can feel for people or natural phenomena and react to them, but they are not ideas. You cannot think about them.

  

  Rex Stout
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Feels

• It's always a help when you have worked with someone as you've got to know them a bit already.

  

  Saffron Burrows
  • Help
  • Know
  • Always

• 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