Eugene Ionesco People Quotations

Idiom is larger than geography; it is the hot breath of a people singing, slashing, explorative. Imagery becomes the magic denominator, the language of a passage, saying the ancient unchanging particulars.

The unpleasant thing about society today is nowadays is that there is a confusion between people and their function; or rather, people are tempted to identify with the function they perform. This is what's happening, particularly in totalitarian soc

Many people have delusions of grandeur but you're deluded by triviality.

People always try to find base motives behind every good action. We are afraid of pure goodness and of pure evil.

It isn't what people think that is important, but the reason they think what they think

There are more dead people than living. And their numbers are increasing. The living are getting rarer.

People who don't read are brutes.

Why do people always expect authors to answer questions? I am an author because I want to ask questions. If I had answers, I'd be a politician.

The supreme trick of mass insanity is that it persuades you that the only abnormal person is the one who refuses to join in the madness of others, the one who tries vainly to resist. We will never understand totalitarianism if we do not understand that people rarely have the strength to be uncommon.