Charles Baudelaire Quotes About Heart

Quotes about: Heart

• I am the wound and the knife!
  I am the slap and the cheek!
  I am the limbs and the rack,
  And the victim and the executioner!
  I am the vampire of my own heart.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Heart, Knives, Self

• Even as a child I felt in my heart two opposite emotions: the horror of life and the ecstasy of life.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Children, Heart, Two

  "Baudelaire: a self portrait".

• But the true voyagers are only those who leave Just to be leaving; hearts light, like balloons, They never turn aside from their fatality And without knowing why they always say: "Let's go!

  Charles Baudelaire

  Heart, Light, Knowing

• Forest, I fear you! In my ruined heart your roaring wakens the same agony as in cathedrals when the organ moans and from the depths I hear that I am damned.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Heart, Agony, Depth

  Charles Baudelaire, Richard Howard (1983). “Les Fleurs Du Mal”, p.77, David R. Godine Publisher

• The form of a town changes more swiftly alas! Than the heart of a mortal.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Heart, History, Towns

• Do you remember the sight we saw, my soul, that soft summer morning round a turning in the path, the disgusting carcass on a bed scattered with stones, its legs in the air like a woman in need burning its wedding poisons like a fountain with its rhythmic sobs, I could hear it clearly flowing with a long murmuring sound, but I touch my body in vain to find the wound. I am the vampire of my own heart, one of the great outcasts condemned to eternal laughter who can no longer smile. Am I dead? I must be dead.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Summer, Morning, Laughter

• My heart is lost; the beasts have eaten it.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Heart, Beast, My Heart

  Charles Baudelaire (2008). “The Flowers of Evil”, p.115, OUP Oxford

• Laments of an Icarus The paramours of courtesans Are well and satisfied, content. But as for me my limbs are rent Because I clasped the clouds as mine. I owe it to the peerless stars Which flame in the remotest sky That I see only with spent eyes Remembered suns I knew before. In vain I had at heart to find The center and the end of space. Beneath some burning, unknown gaze I feel my very wings unpinned And, burned because I beauty loved, I shall not know the highest bliss, And give my name to the abyss Which waits to claim me as its own.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Stars, Eye, Heart

• I sit in the sky like a sphinx misunderstood; My heart of snow is wed to the whiteness of swans; I hate the movement that displaces the rigid lines, With lips untaught neither tears nor laughter do I know.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Laughter, Hate, Heart

• The old Paris is no more (the form of a city changes faster, alas! than a mortal's heart).

  Charles Baudelaire

  Heart, Cities, Paris

• To the solemn graves, near a lonely cemetery, my heart like a muffled drum is beating funeral marches.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Life, Lonely, Heart

  "Les Fleurs du Mal", "Le Guignon", a quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 440-55, 1922.

• Ah! Seigneur! donnez-moi la force et le courage De contempler mon coeur et mon corps sans de go u" t. Lord! give me the strength and the courage To see my heart and my body without disgust.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Heart, Giving, Body

  1857 Les Fleurs du mal,'Un Voyage a' Cythe' re'.

• Quand notre coeur a fait une fois sa vendange, Vivre est un mal. Once our heart has been harvested once, Life becomes miserable.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Heart, Miserable, Has Beens

• When a singer puts his hand on his heart, it means usually, I will always love you!

  Charles Baudelaire

  Love You, Heart, Mean

• Ne cherchez plus mon coeur; les be" tes l'ont mange . Don't search any further for my heart; wild beasts ate it.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Heart, Beast, Plus

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