Eugene Ionesco Quotes

Routine feeds the illusion of safety.

Running through things because you are familiar with them, breeds routine and this is the seed of boredom.

Beware of monotony; it's the mother of all the deadly sins.

I don't want to be the guy who sits on a front porch with a mint julep in his hand and rocks his life away.

Boredom is the conviction that you can't change ... the shriek of unused capacities.

Wherever people feel safe — they will be indifferent.

Comfort can be a dangerous thing. You stick around home all the time where it’s safe and nothing ever changes, and before you know it, you get set in your ways and you quit learning, you quit changing, you don’t grow anymore.

You try to figure out things to keep yourself interested. It's very easy to get lulled.

I feel monotony and death to be almost the same.

We carve out risk-free lives where nothing happens.

How does one get bored of life?

I get bored very easily.

I believe that when things are easy, people stay dormant.

If I am not moving I get bored very easily.

Sometimes when you're with the same old people, you get the same old thing.

Nothing is more uninteresting than completely knowing somebody, being totally at ease.

Safety and comfort comes with complacency, and that's never a good place to be working from.

Being quiet is comfortable. Keeping things the way they've been is comfortable. And all comfort has done is maintain the status quo.

While I try and give as much energy, enthusiasm and detail to any work I do, if I keep coming back to it, to the same people year after year, there's an attachment. But you don't want anything to become comfortable.

Human beings desire comfort and familiarity.

Boredom is the deadliest poison.

Boredom is nothing but the experience of a paralysis of our productive powers.

It isnot good enough tospend time and ink indescribing the penultimate sensations and physical movements of people getting into a state of rut, we all know them so well.

When you're comfortable, you're not necessarily inclined to care about things that are contributing to your comfort. It's difficult.

Security and safety were the reward of dullness.