
Quotes by Charles Baudelaire, page 2
39 quotes by Charles Baudelaire


Nature is a temple in which living columns sometimes emit confused words.
CQuote by Charles Baudelaire about nature, word

Nature is nothing but the inner voice of self-interest.
CQuote by Charles Baudelaire about nature, voice, interest, self-control, nothing


The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects.
CQuote by Charles Baudelaire about opinion, city, wealth, life
The lover of life makes the whole world into his family, just as the lover of the fair sex creates his from all the lovely women he has found, from those that could be found, and those who are impossible to find.
CQuote by Charles Baudelaire about love, impossible, family, sex, world, life

The man who says his evening prayer is a captain posting his sentinels, he can sleep.
CQuote by Charles Baudelaire about sleep, man
The pleasure we derive from the representation of the present is due, not only to the beauty it can be clothed in, but also to its essential quality of being the present.
CQuote by Charles Baudelaire about present, essential, quality, pleasure, beauty, being

The poet enjoys the incomparable privilege of being able to be himself and others, as he wishes.
CQuote by Charles Baudelaire about poetry, poets, being

The priest is an immense being because he makes the crowd believe astonishing things.
CQuote by Charles Baudelaire about religion, faith, being, things

The study of beauty is a duel in which the artist cries with terror before being defeated.
CQuote by Charles Baudelaire about teaching, fear, beauty, artists, being


There are as many kinds of beauty as there are habitual ways of seeking happiness.
CQuote by Charles Baudelaire about beauty, happiness

There are moments of existence when time and space are more profound, and the awareness of existence is immensely heightened.
CQuote by Charles Baudelaire about existence, univers, time

Two fundamental literary qualities supernaturalism and irony.
CQuote by Charles Baudelaire about literature, irony, literary critic


What is exhilarating in bad taste is the aristocratic pleasure of giving offense.
CQuote by Charles Baudelaire about pleasure, bad luck, bad

There exist only three respectable beings the priest, the warrior, the poet. To know, to kill, and to create.
CQuote by Charles Baudelaire about poets

Whether you come from heaven or hell, what does it matter, o beauty.
CQuote by Charles Baudelaire about opinion, hell, beauty, contentment

















