Arthur Adamov Quotes

What is there? I know first of all that I am. But who am I? All I know of myself is that I suffer. And if I suffer it is because at the origin of myself there is mutilation, separation. I am separated. What I am separated from — I cannot name it. But I am separated.

Things always happen in series.

A stage play ought to be the point of intersection between the visible and invisible worlds, or, in other words, the display, the manifestation of the hidden.

Perhaps the sad and empty language that today’s flabby humanity pours forth, will, in all its horror, in all its boundless absurdity, re-echo in the heart of a solitary man who is awake, and then perhaps that man, suddenly realizing that he does not understand, will begin to understand.

I know I earn less at my primary school than you do, but I don’t have to work as hard at my primary school.

The reason why Absurdist plays take place in No Man’s Land with only two characters is primarily financial.

The only thing to know is how to use your neurosis.

Passive pleasure is no pleasure at all.

The crisis of our time is essentially a religious crisis. It is a matter of life or death.