Quotes by Artaud, Antonin

You are outside life, you are above life, you have miseries which the >>

If I commit suicide, it will not be to destroy myself but to put mysel >>

And what is an authentic madman? It is a man who preferred to become m >>

Quotations about Psychiatry

One should only see a psychiatrist out of boredom. >>

Every morning I woke in dread, waiting for the day nurse to go on her >>

The difference between a neurotic, a psychotic, and a psychiatrist. Th >>

I myself spent nine years in an insane asylum and I never had the obsession of suicide, but I know that each conversation with a psychiatrist, every morning at the time of his visit, made me want to hang myself, realizing that I would not be able to cut his throat.

Artaud, Antonin