When we speak the word 'life,' it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its surface of fact, but to that fragile, fluctuating center which forms never reach. Antonin Artaud centerfactfluctuate Change image and share on social
So long as we have failed to eliminate any of the causes of human despair, we do not have the right to try to eliminate those means by which man tries to cleanse himself of despair. Antonin Artaud cleansedespaireliminate Change image and share on social
We must wash literature off ourselves. We want to be men above all, to be human. Antonin Artaud humanliteratureman Change image and share on social
Hell is of this world and there are men who are unhappy escapees from hell, escapees destined ETERNALLY to reenact their escape. Antonin Artaud destineescapeescapee Change image and share on social
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. Antonin Artaud asylumconversationcut share on social
Don't tire yourself more than need be, even at the price of founding a culture on the fatigue of your bones. Antonin Artaud boneculturefatigue Change image and share on social
There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium was the only solution to the strangulation that life had prepared for him. Antonin Artaud deliriumfrightengenius Change image and share on social
All true language is incomprehensible, like the chatter of a beggar's teeth. Antonin Artaud beggarchatterincomprehensible Change image and share on social
Never tire yourself more than necessary, even if you have to found a culture on the fatigue of your bones. Antonin Artaud boneculturefatigue Change image and share on social
