Charles Baudelaire Quotes About Desire

Quotes about: Desire

• There are women who inspire you with the desire to conquer them and to take your pleasure of them; but this one fills you only with the desire to die slowly beneath her gaze.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Inspire, Desire, Conquer

  Charles Baudelaire, Louise Varèse (1970). “Paris Spleen, 1869”, p.78, New Directions Publishing

• This life is a hospital where every patient is possessed with the desire to change beds; one man would like to suffer in front of the stove, and another believes that he would recover his health beside the window.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Believe, Men, Suffering

  Charles Baudelaire, “Anywhere Out Of The World”

• All fashions are charming, or rather relatively charming, each one being a new striving, more or less well conceived, after beauty, an approximate statement of an ideal, the desire for which constantly teases the unsatisfied human mind.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Fashion, Mind, Desire

• Life is a hospital in which every patient is possessed by a desire to change his bed.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Desire, Bed, Literature

  "The Essence of Laughter: And Other Essays, Journals, and Letters".

• There are in every man, always, two simultaneous allegiances, one to God, the other to Satan. Invocation of God, or Spirituality, is a desire to climb higher; that of Satan, or animality, is delight in descent.

  Charles Baudelaire

  God, Men, Two

  Charles Baudelaire, Christopher Isherwood, W. H. Auden (2006). “Intimate Journals”, p.73, Courier Corporation

• Since photography gives us every guarantee of exactitude that we could desire (they really believe that, the mad fools !), then photography and art are the same thing.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Photography, Art, Believe

  Charles Baudelaire, Jonathan Mayne (1981). “Art in Paris 1845-1862: salons and other exhibitions”

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

  Charles Baudelaire

  Dream, Desire, Action

  "Le Gouffre". Poem by Charles Baudelaire, 1862.

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