There are more dead people than living. And their numbers are increasing. The living are getting rarer.
Eugene IonescoTo become conscious of what is horrifying and to laugh at it is to become master of that which is horrifying
Eugene IonescoTo 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 IonescoFor me, it is as though at every moment the actual world had completely lost its actuality. As though there was nothing there; asthough there were no foundations for anything or as though it escaped us. Only one thing, however, is vividly present: the constant tearing of the veil of appearances; the constant destruction of everything in construction. Nothing holds together, everything falls apart.
Eugene Ionesco