It is impossible – now, at this point in the long journey of human culture – to avoid the sense that pain is necessity; that it is neither accident, nor malformation, nor malice, nor misunderstanding, that it is integral to the human character both in its inflicting and in its suffering, this terrible sense Tragedy alone has articulated, and will continue to articulate, and in so doing, make beautiful…


Death, The One and the Art of Theatre (ed. Routledge, 2004) - ISBN: 9781134270804

Howard Barker Quotes

It is impossible – now, at this point in the long journey of human culture – to avoid the sense that pain is necessity; that it is neither...

It is impossible – now, at this point in the long journey of human culture – to avoid the sense that pain is necessity; that it is neither...

It is impossible – now, at this point in the long journey of human culture – to avoid the sense that pain is necessity; that it is neither...

It is impossible – now, at this point in the long journey of human culture – to avoid the sense that pain is necessity; that it is neither...