Thinkexist Quotations

My Account Help

Add the "Dynamic Daily Quotation" to Your Site or Blog - it's Easy!

Quotation:

“Realism, whether it be socialist or not, 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 quotes (French dramatist inspired a revolution in dramatic techniques, 1909-1994)

Add to Chapter...

1-10 Quotations of 33

Users who liked this quote also liked:

“It is not the answer that enlightens, but the question.”
Eugene Ionesco quotes (French dramatist inspired a revolution in dramatic techniques, 1909-1994)
Similar Quotes.
Add to Chapter...

“For me, it is as though at every moment the actual world had completely lost its actuality. As though there was nothing there; as though 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 quotes (French dramatist inspired a revolution in dramatic techniques, 1909-1994)
Similar Quotes.
Add to Chapter...

“Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.”
C.S. Lewis quotes (British Scholar and Novelist. 1898-1963)
Similar Quotes. About: Reason quotes.
Add to Chapter...

“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 quotes (French dramatist inspired a revolution in dramatic techniques, 1909-1994)
Similar Quotes.
Add to Chapter...

“The function of the imagination is not to make strange things settled, so much as to make settled things strange.”
G. K. Chesterton quotes (English born Gabonese Critic, Essayist, Novelist and Poet, 1874-1936)
Similar Quotes.
Add to Chapter...

“Everything that has been will be, everything that will be is, everything that will be has been.”
Eugene Ionesco quotes (French dramatist inspired a revolution in dramatic techniques, 1909-1994)
Similar Quotes. About: Time quotes.
Add to Chapter...

“We take a risk when we open our hearts because the truth is, if we open our hearts, we will get hurt. You can’t open your heart and not have some hurt because you’re in a human experience. Even if it’s the love of your life and you have many wonderful, deepening, growing, powerful years together, it’s a human experience and that person will pass over. Love takes courage. Be courageous.”
wolfdyke Mary Manin Morrissey quotes
Similar Quotes.
Add to Chapter...

“The mightiest lever known to the moral world, imagination.”
William Wordsworth quotes (Major English Romantic Poet. 1770-1850)
Similar Quotes.
Add to Chapter...

“Imagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow.”
William Blake quotes (English visionary Mystic, Poet, Painter and Engraver. 1757-1827)
Similar Quotes.
Add to Chapter...

“Living is abnormal.”
Eugene Ionesco quotes (French dramatist inspired a revolution in dramatic techniques, 1909-1994)
Similar Quotes. About: Living quotes.
Add to Chapter...

Suggested

> T-Shirt quotes
> funny quotes
> famous quotes
> movie quotes
> sayings
> proverbs
> funny sayings
> Inspirational Quotes
> Cute Quotes
> Friendship Quotes
> Motivational Quotes

ThinkExist.com Quotations
Privacy & Security Policy | Terms of Service | Advertise | About us | Press room | Contact us | Help
Copyright ® ThinkExist 1999-2016