Quotes by Artaud, Antonin

All true language is incomprehensible, like the chatter of a beggar's >>

Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Le >>

Hell is of this world and there are men who are unhappy escapees from >>

Quotations about Suicide

It is always consoling to think of suicide: in that way one gets throu >>

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

Then is it sin to rush into the secret house of death. Ere death dare >>

If I commit suicide, it will not be to destroy myself but to put myself back together again. Suicide will be for me only one means of violently reconquering myself, of brutally invading my being, of anticipating the unpredictable approaches of God. By suicide, I reintroduce my design in nature, I shall for the first time give things the shape of my will.

Artaud, Antonin