Eugene Ionesco Quotes About Reality

Quotes about: Reality

• Realism falls short of reality. It shrinks it, attenuates it, falsifies it; it does not take into account our basic truths and our fundamental obsessions: love, death, astonishment. It presents man in a reduced and estranged perspective. Truth is in our dreams, in the imagination.

  Eugene Ionesco

  Love, Dream, Fall

• There is nothing truer than myth: history, in its attempt to realize myth, distorts it, stops halfway; when history claims to have succeeded, this is nothing but humbug and mystification. Everything we dream is realizable. Reality does not have to be: it is simply what it is.

  Eugene Ionesco

  Dream, Reality, History

• DAISY: I never knew you were such a realist-I thought you were more poetic. Where's your imagination? There are many sides to reality. Choose the one that's best for you. Escape into the world of imagination.

  Eugene Ionesco

  Reality, Imagination, World

  Eugene Ionesco (2015). “Rhinoceros and Other Plays: Includes: The Leader; The Future Is in Eggs; It Takes All Kinds to Make a World”, p.59, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

• To tear ourselves away from the everyday, from habit, from mental laziness which hides from us the strangeness of reality, we must receive something like a real bludgeon blow.

  Eugene Ionesco

  Real, Blow, Everyday

• I have always considered imaginative truth to be more profound, more loaded with significance, than every day reality... Everything we dream about, and by that I mean everything we desire, is true (the myth of Icarus came before aviation, and if Ader or Bleriot started flying it is because all men have dreamed of flight). There is nothing truer than myth... Reality does not have to be: it is simply what is.

  Eugene Ionesco

  Dream, Mean, Reality

• Drama lies in extreme exaggeration of the feelings, an exaggeration that dislocates flat everyday reality.

  Eugene Ionesco

  Drama, Lying, Writing

• Dreams are reality at its most profound, and what you invent is truth because invention, by its nature, can't be a lie.

  Eugene Ionesco

  Dream, Reality, Profound

  "Eugene Ionesco, The Art of Theater No. 6". Interview with Shusha Guppy, Paris Review, No. 93, www.theparisreview.org. Fall 1984.

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