I am unable to understand how a man of honor could take a newspaper in his hands without a shudder of disgust.
By : Charles Baudelaire
God is the only being who, in order to reign, doesn't even need to exist.
By : Charles Baudelaire
I can barely conceive of a type of beauty in which there is no Melancholy.
By : Charles Baudelaire
I consider it useless and tedious to represent what exists, because nothing that exists satisfies me. Nature is ugly, and I prefer the monsters of my fancy to what is positively trivial.
By : Charles Baudelaire
How little remains of the man I once was, save the memory of him! But remembering is only a new form of suffering.
By : Charles Baudelaire
Everything that is beautiful and noble is the product of reason and calculation.
By : Charles Baudelaire
This life is a hospital in which every patient is possessed with a desire to change his bed.
By : Charles Baudelaire
For each letter received from a creditor, write fifty lines on an extraterrestrial subject and you will be saved.
By : Charles Baudelaire
Even in the centuries which appear to us to be the most monstrous and foolish, the immortal appetite for beauty has always found satisfaction.
By : Charles Baudelaire
Those men get along best with women who can get along best without them.
By : Charles Baudelaire
To the solemn graves, near a lonely cemetery, my heart like a muffled drum is beating funeral marches.
By : Charles Baudelaire
To handle a language skillfully is to practice a kind of evocative sorcery.
By : Charles Baudelaire
We are weighed down, every moment, by the conception and the sensation of Time. And there are but two means of escaping and forgetting this nightmare: pleasure and work. Pleasure consumes us. Work strengthens us. Let us choose.
By : Charles Baudelaire
What is exhilarating in bad taste is the aristocratic pleasure of giving offense.
By : Charles Baudelaire
Let us beware of common folk, of common sense, of sentiment, of inspiration, and of the obvious.
By : Charles Baudelaire
I love Wagner, but the music I prefer is that of a cat hung up by its tail outside a window and trying to stick to the panes of glass with its claws.
By : Charles Baudelaire
To say the word Romanticism is to say modern art - that is, intimacy, spirituality, color, aspiration towards the infinite, expressed by every means available to the arts.
By : Charles Baudelaire
There is no such thing as a long piece of work, except one that you dare not start.
By : Charles Baudelaire
It is by universal misunderstanding that all agree. For if, by ill luck, people understood each other, they would never agree.
By : Charles Baudelaire
In order for the artist to have a world to express he must first be situated in this world, oppressed or oppressing, resigned or rebellious, a man among men.
By : Charles Baudelaire
In literature as in ethics, there is danger, as well as glory, in being subtle. Aristocracy isolates us.
By : Charles Baudelaire
If the poet has pursued a moral objective, he has diminished his poetic force.
By : Charles Baudelaire
Even if it were proven that God didn't exist, Religion would still be Saintly and Divine.
By : Charles Baudelaire