Eugene Ionesco
I've always been suspicious of collective truths. I think an idea is true when it hasn't been put into words and that the moment it's put into words it becomes exaggerated. Because the moment it's put into words there's an abuse, an excess in the expression of the idea that makes it false.Collection: Truth
We are made to be immortal, and yet we die. It's horrible, it can't be taken seriouslyCollection: Taken
The human comedy does not attract me enough. I am not entirely of this world. I am from elsewhere, and it is worth finding this elsewhere beyond the walls...but where is it?Collection: Wall
Boredom flourishes too, when you feel safe. It's a symptom of security.Collection: Blessing
Dreams are reality at its most profound, and what you invent is truth because invention, by its nature, can't be a lie.Collection: Dream
Many people have delusions of grandeur but you're deluded by triviality.Collection: Illusions Of Grandeur
That's how we stay young these days: murder and suicide.Collection: Suicide
The light of memory, or rather the light that memory lends to things, is the palest light of all. I am not quite sure whether I am dreaming or remembering, whether I have lived my life or dreamed it. Just as dreams do, memory makes me profoundly aware of the unreality, the evanescence of the world, a fleeting image in the moving water.Collection: Dream