Eugene Ionesco Quotes

I am Walter, a body, but more important than the body is my spirit.

It is only to the individual that a soul is given.

From ancient times, the core idea of the soul is the soul is the capacity to integrate different functions into a single being or into a single person. The soul is what holds us all together: what connects our will and our minds and our bodies and connects us to God.

I think that our personalities and our souls have so much - we're so much more than just blood vessels and bone and muscle.

But to do this kind of work, you have to be very strong, otherwise you lose your personality, your identity.

Words alone cannot fully convey the realities of the soul or the greatness of the human spirit.

You can't get away from who you are I guess.

Even more important than what we do, then, is who we are.

The 'soul' is one of the words you can use to talk about your innermost being, the essence of who you are.

It is the unseen and the spiritual in people that determines the outward and the actual.

The essence of a person is not the clothing she wears or the things he does. People who love them do not stop loving them when they change clothing or do other things. Your essence is not even your history, culture, race, or what you think and do. It is your soul.

Honour is the inner garment of the Soul; the first thing put on by it with the flesh, and the last it layeth down at its separation from it.

I don't like to think of myself as just a person. I don't think I am. I think I existed before, and I think I'll exist again after I die here, so I don't exactly know what I am. I don't think there is ever going to be an answer. I just know that I'm not like you.

Everyone has their own individuality and character.

'Dum' is not about the bicep. It is about soul.

I got a different persona than a lot of these other guys.

The more peculiarly his own a man's character is, the better it fits him.

I find myself both as man and as myself something more determined and distinctive, at pitch, more distinctive and higher pitched than anything else I see.

I, myself, am strange and unusual.

I wonder from these thousand of "me's", which one am I? Listen to my cry, do not drown my voice I am completely filled with the thought of you. Don't lay broken glass on my path I will crush it into dust. I am nothing, just a mirror in the palm of your hand, reflecting your kindness, your sadness, your anger. If you were a blade of grass or a tiny flower I will pitch my tent in your shadow. Only your presence revives my withered heart. You are the candle that lights the whole world and I am an empty vessel for your light. Rumi - "Hidden Music

I'd take a look at my own self in the mirror and wonder how it was possible that anybody could manage such an enormous thing as being what he was.

Whatever we call it - mind, character, soul - we like to think we possess something that is greater than the sum of our neurons and that animates us.

With all the things that you could be, you never could learn how to be me.

A true inner world is often revealed by style and sensibility as much as by what appears to be confession.

Style is character.