Jean Cocteau Quotes

I drink because I wish to multiply my sufferings.

I voluntarily inflicted a certain level of insanity on myself.

Dysphoria will always be a painful place.

May new sufferings torment your soul.

Self-inflicted misery smirks under its crown of thorns.

Misery pulls away the brackets of life leaving you to free fall.

This violent rage that turned inward cannot be helped by drink.

...occasionally I wished I could walk through a picture window and have the sharp, broken shards slash me to ribbons so I would finally look like I felt.

But it was not the room’s disorder which was frightening; it was the fact that when one began searching for the key to this disorder, one realized that it was not to be found in any of the usual places. For this was not a matter of habit or circumstance or temperament; it was a matter of punishment and grief.

I suppose it’s comfort, perhaps a sense of self-control, doing worse things to yourself than the world will ever dare inflict.

It is certain that we cannot escape anguish, for we are anguish.

Nobody destroys people - people destroy themselves, and it's very, very sad.

This tragic brow, these closed eyes, eyebrows raised and knotted.

The agony of my feelings allowed me no respite; no incident occurred from which my rage and misery could not extract its food.

My painting carries with it the message of pain.

The nature of anguish is translated into different forms.

My bones are tired from all the tragedy in me.

My tears will keep no channel, know no laws to guide their streams, but like the waves, their cause, run with disturbance till they swallow me as a description of his misery.

It's curious how we act in moments of personal despair.

I have shed many tears of pain and indignation.

From January to December of 2019, I crumbled, to be real, and I think by the end of 2019 I had beaten myself up in every possible way to the point where I wasn't even a person. I was fully at rock bottom.

Nobody knows the pain I've been through.

Honestly, the pains of humanity have been draining me.

Oh, darling, I've been so miserable.