More - Charles Baudelaire Quotes

Nearly all our originality comes from the stamp that time impresses upon our sensibility.

Charles Baudelaire

 French Poet

This life is a hospital in which every patient is possessed with a desire to change his bed.

Charles Baudelaire

 Bed French Poet

I am unable to understand how a man of honor could take a newspaper in his hands without a shudder of disgust.

Charles Baudelaire

 French Poet

There exist only three beings worthy of respect: the priest, the soldier, the poet. To know, to kill, to create.

Charles Baudelaire

 

The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous; but we do not notice it.

Charles Baudelaire

 French Poet

True Civilization does not lie in gas, nor in steam, nor in turn-tables. It lies in the reduction of the traces of original sin.

Charles Baudelaire

 Civilization Sin

I have cultivated my hysteria with delight and terror. Now I suffer continually from vertigo, and today, 23rd of January, 1862, I have received a singular warning, I have felt the wind of the wing of madness pass over me.

Charles Baudelaire

 Madness

All forms of beauty, like all possible phenomena, contain an element of the eternal and an element of the transitory / of the absolute and of the particular. Absolute and eternal beauty does not exist, or rather it is only an abstraction creamed from the general surface of different beauties. The particular element in each manifestation comes from the emotions: and just as we have our own particular emotions, so we have our own beauty.

Charles Baudelaire

 Beauty

Sexuality is the lyricism of the masses

Charles Baudelaire

 

The world only goes round by misunderstanding.

Charles Baudelaire

 French Poet