Quotes by Artaud, Antonin

I myself spent nine years in an insane asylum and I never had the obse >>

So long as we have failed to eliminate any of the causes of human desp >>

The race of prophets is extinct. Europe is becoming set in its ways, s >>

Quotations about Suffering

There is not much sense in suffering, since drugs can be given for pai >>

A man who suffers before it is necessary, suffers more than is necessa >>

You do not have to suffer to be a poet. Adolescence is enough sufferin >>

You are outside life, you are above life, you have miseries which the ordinary man does not know, you exceed the normal level, and it is for this that men refuse to forgive you, you poison their peace of mind, you undermine their stability. You have irrepressible pains whose essence is to be inadaptable to any known state, indescribable in words. You have repeated and shifting pains, incurable pains, pains beyond imagining, pains which are neither of the body nor of the soul, but which partake of both. And I share your suffering, and I ask you: who dares to ration our relief? We are not going to kill ourselves just yet. In the meantime, leave us the hell alone.

Artaud, Antonin