Cruelty in the theatre is unrelenting decisiveness, diligence, strictness.
Antonin ArtaudRead
I have need of angels. Enough hell has swallowed me for too many years. But finally understand this--I have burned up one hundred thousand human lives already, from the strength of my pain.
Interpretation
What this quote means
The speaker expresses a longing for hope and redemption after enduring immense suffering.
This quote by Antonin Artaud reflects the deep anguish and torment that the speaker has faced over the years, implying that the weight of their suffering has prematurely consumed them and led to the destruction of countless potential lives. The reference to needing 'angels' signifies a yearning for solace, guidance, or a reprieve from ongoing hardships, highlighting the human struggle for hope amidst despair.
Themes
AngelsSufferingPainRedemptionHope
In practice
Example use cases
In a speech about overcoming adversity, one might say, 'As Antonin Artaud expressed, I have burned through my pain and now need angels to guide me.'
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All quotes →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.
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If our life lacks a constant magic it is because we choose to observe our acts and lose ourselves in consideration of their imagined form and meaning, instead of being impelled by their force.
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It is thus that the few rare lucid well-disposed people who have had to struggle on the earth find themselves at certain hours of the day or night in the depth of certain authentic and waking nightmare states, surrounded by the formidable suction, the formidable oppression of a kind of civic magic which will soon be seen appearing openly in social behavior.
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A real theatrical experience shakes the calm of the senses, liberates the compressed unconscious and drives towards a kind of potential revolt . . .
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In consciousness dwells the wondrous, with it man attains the realm beyond the material, and the Peyote tells us, where to find it.
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