Eugene Ionesco Quotes

To be immortal and then die

We're all immortal until we die.

Death is with you all the time; you get deeper in it as you move towards it, but it's not unfamiliar to you. It's always been there, so what becomes unfamiliar to you when you pass away from the moment is really life.

All men die. You may say: 'Is that encouraging?' Surely yes, for when a man dies, his blunders, which are of the form, all die with him, but the things in him that are part of the life never die, although the form be broken.

The average man does not know what to do with this life, yet wants another one which will last forever.

Man, as long as he lives, is immortal. One minute before his death he shall be immortal. But one minute later, God wins.

The great problem of humanity is life and death. Every person dreams of becoming invisible one day.

We all have to die some day. Not very many immortals have shown up in this world.

Human life without death would be something other than human; consciousness of mortality gives rise to out deepest longings and greatest accomplishments.

If a man knew how to live he would never die.

Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.

Someone dying asks if there is life after death. Yes, comes the answer, only not yours.

Let there be a heaven so that man may outlive his grasses.

To become immortal, and then to die.

If Shaw and Einstein couldn't beat death, what chance have I got? Practically none.

Death? Why this fuss about death? Use your imagination, try to visualize a world without death! Death is the essential condition of life, not an evil.

For tis not in mere death that men die most.

I think about death most of the day, every day. We can't escape death, and choosing to ignore it only makes it more scary.

In the last analysis, it is our conception of death which decides our answers to all the questions that life puts to us.

There is nothing which at once affects a man so much and so little as his own death.

To me death is not a fearful thing. It's living that's cursed.

Death is like taking an intermission when you can't come back. I like living and being around.

To be immortal is commonplace; except for man, all creatures are immortal, for they are ignorant of death; what is divine, terrible, incomprehensible, is to know that one is immortal.

Death is the mother of Beauty; hence from her, alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams and our desires.

I just don't get death at all. Yes, it's there. But I don't get it.