Eugene Ionesco Quotes

Words are men's daughters, but God's sons are things.

The highest truth cannot be put into words.

Words let us say the things we want to say and also things we would be better off not having said. They let us know the things we need to know, and also things we wish we didn't.

Language is the house of the truth of Being.

Every legend, moreover, contains its residuum of truth, and the root function of language is to control the universe by describing it.

When you are there, you are. With words, you aren't.

Truth is in things, and not in words.

Words stand between silence and silence: between the silence of things and the silence of our own being. Between the silence of the world and the silence of God. When we have really met and known the world in silence, words do not separate us from the world nor from other men, nor from God, nor from ourselves because we no longer trust entirely in language to contain reality.

Fact is richer than diction.

Although all spiritual teachings originate from the same Source, once they become verbalized and written down they are obviously no more than a collection of words-and a word is nothing more than a signpost.

In the end, it is my belief, words are the only things that can construct a world that makes sense.

Truth is not so threadbare as speech, because fewer people can make use of it.

The older I grow the more I become certain that it makes no difference what words we use to tell the same truths.

Whatever can't be expressed might as well not exist.

The word is the making of the world

A word is no light matter. Words have with truth been called fossil poetry, each, that is, a symbol of a creative thought.

Words! Mere words! How terrible they were! How clear, and vivid, and cruel! One could not escape from them. And yet what a subtle magic there was in them! They seemed to be able to give a plastic form to formless things, and to have a music of their own as sweet as that of viol or of lute. Mere words! Was there anything so real as words?

Words are the voice of the heart.

Trying to write about love is ultimately like trying to have a dictionary represent life. No matter how many words there are, there will never be enough.

If one doesn't talk about a thing, it has never happened. It is simply expression that gives reality to things.

Form is solidified energy, energy is an expression of the mind, the mind is the covered mirror of Eternity, and Eternity is the Truth, which has thrown off the mask of the mind.

Words of the world are the life of the world.

The truth always carries the ambiguity of the words used to express it.

It is commonly thought that everything that is can be put into words.

Experience is always larger than language.