Quote by Eugene Ionesco
There is nothing truer than myth: history, in its attempt to reali

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

Other quotes by Eugene Ionesco

The end of childhood is when things cease to astonish us. When the world seems familiar, when one has got used to existence, one has become an adult. – Eugene Ionesco

Category:
Inner Child
Read Quote

There is no religion in which everyday life is not considered a prison there is no philosophy or ideology that does not think that we live in alienation. – Eugene Ionesco

Category:
Religion
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Myths, Mythology
category

It is a myth, not a mandate, a fable not a logic, and symbol rather than a reason by which men are moved. – Irwin Edman

Myth is the hidden part of every story, the buried part, the region that is still unexplored because there are as yet no words to enable us to get there. Myth is nourished by silence as well as by words. – Italo Calvino

Sometimes legends make reality, and become more useful than the facts. – Salman Rushdie

Mythologies, in other words, mythologies and religions are great poems and, when recognized as such, point infallibly through things and events to the ubiquity of a – Joseph Campbell

Random Quotes

This is so cliche, but my beauty icon would have to be Angelina Jolie. She looks like she wears natural makeup, but shes still beautiful. – Tila Tequila

Category:
Beauty

Its nice to know that people appreciate and respect you. – Marcel Carne

Category:
respect

There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read. – Gilbert K. Chesterton

Category:
great

Really you just gotta keep chugging along and keep a positive attitude and get through all the problems. You gotta face them, otherwise you dont get through. – Lesley Gore

Category:
Attitude