Quote

Everything, alas, is an abyss, — actions, desires, dreams, words!

Charles Baudelaire

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Charles Baudelaire
Age: 46 †
Born: 1821
Born: April 9
Died: 1867
Died: August 30
Art Critic
Author
Essayist
Literary Critic
Poet
Translator
Writer
Paris
France
Baudelaire
Charles Pierre Baudelaire-Dufaÿs
Charles Pierre Baudelaire
Action
Dream
Abyss
Everything
Alas
Desires
Actions
Dreams
Words
Desire

More quotes by Charles Baudelaire

Image
There is a word, in a verb, something sacred which forbids us from using it recklessly. To handle a language cunningly is to practice a kind of evocative sorcery.
Charles Baudelaire
Image
How bittersweet it is, on winter's night, To listen, by the sputtering, smoking fire, As distant memories, through the fog-dimmed light, Rise, to the muffled chime of churchbell choir.
Charles Baudelaire
Image
By nature, by necessity itself, [primitive man] is encyclopedic, while civilized man finds himself confined in the infinitely small regions of specialization.
Charles Baudelaire
Image
For me, Romanticism is the most recent and the most current expression of beauty.
Charles Baudelaire
Image
...an industry which can furnish results identical to nature must be the absolute in art.
Charles Baudelaire
Image
In our corruption we perceive beauties unrevealed to ancient times.
Charles Baudelaire
Image
What could be more simple and more complex, more obvious and more profound than a portrait.
Charles Baudelaire
Image
Inspiration comes of working every day.
Charles Baudelaire
Image
One must work, if not from inclination, at least out of despair — since it proves, on close examination, that work is less boring than amusing oneself.
Charles Baudelaire
Image
Nothing can be done except little by little.
Charles Baudelaire
Image
Ne cherchez plus mon coeur les be tes l'ont mange . Don't search any further for my heart wild beasts ate it.
Charles Baudelaire
Image
Who among us has not dreamt, in moments of ambition, of the miracle of a poetic prose, musical without rhythm and rhyme, supple and staccato enough to adapt to the lyrical stirrings of the soul, the undulations of dreams, and sudden leaps of consciousness.
Charles Baudelaire
Image
One should always be drunk. That's all that matters...But with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you chose. But get drunk.
Charles Baudelaire
Image
We love women in proportion to their degree of strangeness to us.
Charles Baudelaire
Image
Wine transforms moles into eagles.
Charles Baudelaire
Image
If a given combination of trees, mountains, water, and houses, say a landscape, is beautiful, it is not so by itself, but because of me, of my favor, of the idea or feeling I attach to it.
Charles Baudelaire
Image
The act of love strongly resembles torture or surgery.
Charles Baudelaire
Image
Evil is done without effort, naturally, it's destiny good is always the product of skill.
Charles Baudelaire
Image
Any man who does not accept the conditions of life sells his soul.
Charles Baudelaire
Image
Beware of all the paradoxical in love. It is simplicity which saves, it is simplicity which brings happiness...Love should be love.
Charles Baudelaire