Quotes by Charles Baudelaire
39 quotes by Charles Baudelaire
Charles Baudelaire - french poet
Was born on 09 apr 1821.
Died on 31 aug 1867, at 46 years old.
Died on 31 aug 1867, at 46 years old.
Origin country: France
A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.
Quote by Charles Baudelaire about books, garden, companies
A frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything else.
Quote by Charles Baudelaire about pasion, art, magic
All which is beautiful and noble is the result of reason and calculation.
Quote by Charles Baudelaire about beauty, reason
Any healthy man can go without food for two days but not without poetry.
Quote by Charles Baudelaire about weacth, food, day, poetry, man
Any man who does not accept the conditions of life sells his soul.
Quote by Charles Baudelaire about man, soul, life
Beauty is the sole ambition, the exclusive goal of taste.
Quote by Charles Baudelaire about beauty, ambition, purpose
Everything that is beautiful and noble is the product of reason and calculation.
Quote by Charles Baudelaire about beauty, reason
God is the only being who, in order to reign, doesn't even need to exist.
Quote by Charles Baudelaire about god, order, need, being
How little remains of the man I once was, save the memory of him, but remembering is only a new form of suffering.
Quote by Charles Baudelaire about recollection, suffering, memory, man
I am unable to understand how a man of honor could take a newspaper in his hands without a shudder of disgust.
Quote by Charles Baudelaire about opinion, man
I have cultivated my hysteria with pleasure and terror.
Quote by Charles Baudelaire about opinion, fear, pleasure
I have more memories than if I were a thousand years old.
Quote by Charles Baudelaire about recollection, old, olderness
If the poet has pursued a moral objective, he has diminished his poetic force.
Quote by Charles Baudelaire about poetry, purpose, force, police, moral, poets
In literature as in ethics, there is danger, as well as glory, in being subtle. Aristocracy isolates us.
Quote by Charles Baudelaire about literature, danger, glory, being
It is time to get drunk, so as not to be the martyred slaves of time, get drunk, get drunk without stopping.
Quote by Charles Baudelaire about time
It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree.
Quote by Charles Baudelaire about bad luck, good luck, people
Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent, it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable.
Quote by Charles Baudelaire about art, magic, being
