Alejandro Jodorowsky Quotes & Sayings (Page 5)

“One day I was sitting in my own pain, and suddenly all the pain and troubles of the world came to me. I received all the pain of the world, all through my body.”

“The first thing I didn't understand was my life. It's a mystery. And today I don't understand economy or politics. I don't know why politics or economy are destroying the world, but I will understand after understanding.”

“Surrealism was necessary - essential, even - in the 1920s to bridge the gap between rationalism and the subconscious. It started something important. But by the early '60s, it had become petit-bourgeois; it was too intellectual and romantic, and had ground to a halt. It had become respectable.”

“People say I am mad. I am not mad. I am trying to heal my soul.”

“I don't live in France; I live in myself.”

“Life is a mixing of all kind of things: comedy and tragedy going together.”

“I write books, I write for comic books, I give lectures... I live. And when the opportunity comes to do a picture, I do a picture.”

“My consciousness is without limits more than when I was 40 or 50.”

“My father was a monster. A monster! I cut with my family when I was 23 and I never see them again.”

“My father was an atheist, absent. He was a salesman; I was four years old when he told me that the end of life was death.”