Eugene Ionesco Quotes

No sense makes sense.

If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn't. And contrariwise, what it is, it wouldn't be. And what it wouldn't be it would. You see?

Logic plus logic equals the illogical. Do you know what I mean?

Humor is reason gone mad.

It's hard to find logic in things sometimes. That's why I can't analyze things too much, because it often doesn't make much sense.

The tail must wag the dog, for the horse is drawn by the cart

When in doubt, make no sense. No sense is good. And nonsense is good.

The sun was shining on the sea, Shining with all his might: He did his very best to make The billows smooth and bright-- And this was odd, because it was The middle of the night.

Knock! knock! who's there? me! me who? that's right? what's right? meehoo! that's what I want to know! what's what you want to know? me who? yes, exactly! exactly what? yes, I have exactlywatt on a chain! exactly what on a chain? yes! yes what? no, exactlywatt! that's what I want to know! I told you-exactlywatt! exactly what? yes! yes what? yes it's with me. what's with you? exactlywatt-that's what with me. me who? yes! go away! knock knock...

The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't.

There is absolutely no common sense, it is common non-sense.

The trouble with fiction," said John Rivers, "is that it makes too much sense. Reality never makes sense.

Ok you guys, pair up in threes!

Absurdity is what I like most in life.

Well! I've often seen a cat without a grin,' thought Alice 'but a grin without a cat! It's the most curious thing i ever saw in my life!

The Red Queen shook her head. "You may call it 'nonsense' if you like," she said, "but I've heard nonsense, compared with which that would be as sensible as a dictionary!

in nonsense is strength

We're living in such a fantasy world where nothing makes sense anymore.

I have complete faith in the continued absurdity of whatever’s going on.

The world stands on absurdities, and without them perhaps nothing at all would happen.

It is to believed because it is absurd.

Every absurdity has a champion to defend it.

All right everyone, line up alphabetically according to your height.

Love is not love, without a violin playing goat.