Eugene Ionesco Quotes

I don't believe in luck. I believe everything happens for a reason.

What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun

Everything that ever has been always will be, and everything that ever will be always has been.

In a world in which time is a circle, every handshake, every kiss, every birth, every word, will be repeated precisely.

I wonder whether being a scientist's daughter makes you so conflicted about free will and fate.

Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.

Chance is a word void of sense; nothing can exist without a cause.

The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect is already in the cause.

Intellectually, I believe there's no free will.

When does it happen?" "It already has," Calla replied. Her eyes opened and fixed on Blue. "And it hasn't yet. Time' circular, chicken. We use the same parts of it over and over. Some of us more than others.

Everything becomes and recurs eternally - escape is impossible!

There is no such thing as chance; and what seem to us merest accident springs from the deepest source of destiny.

Every individual acts and suffers in accordance with his peculiar teleology, which has all the inevitability of fate, so long as he does not understand it.

The end is in the beginning and lies far ahead.

My life experience has taught me nothing happens by chance. Even the idea of the ball in a roulette game: it's not chance it ends up in a certain place. It's forces that are at play.

You know, if you hang around this earth long enough you really see how things come full circle.

There have always been arguments showing that free will is an illusion: some based on hard physics, others based on pure logic.

God, our genes, our environment, or some stupid programmer keying in code at an ancient terminal - there's no way free will can ever exist if we as individuals are the result of some external cause.

Why does anything ever happen? Some things happen and some don't.

I really think everything happens for a reason.

I realize that things happen for a reason.

I detest that saying 'Everything happens for a reason'; it's nonsense.

Life is like a wheel. Sooner or later, it always come around to where you started again.

I've got news for Mr. Santayana: we're doomed to repeat the past no matter what. That's what it is to be alive.

Free will is to mind, what chance is to matter