Charles Baudelaire Quotes About Horror

Quotes about: Horror

• 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".

• In this horror of solitude, this need to lose his ego in exterior flesh, which man calls grandly the need for love.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Love, Men, Poetry

  Charles Baudelaire, Christopher Isherwood, W. H. Auden (2006). “Intimate Journals”, p.95, Courier Corporation

• The Devil pulls the strings which make us dance; We find delight in the most loathsome things; Some furtherance of Hell each new day brings, And yet we feel no horror in that rank advance.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Horror Genre, New Day, Devil

• An oasis of horror in a desert of boredom.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Oasis, Boredom, Desert

  Charles Baudelaire (2012). “The Flowers of Evil & Paris Spleen: Selected Poems”, p.63, Courier Corporation

• Any newspaper, from the first line to the last, is nothing but a web of horrors, I cannot understand how an innocent hand can touch a newspaper without convulsing in disgust.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Hands, Lines, Lasts

• The vices of man, as full of horror as one might suppose them to be, contain the proof (if in nothing else but their infinitely expandable nature) of his taste for the infinite; only, it is a taste that often takes a wrong turn.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Men, Infinity, Vices

• A study of the Great Malady; horror of home.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Home, Study, Horror

  Charles Baudelaire, Christopher Isherwood, W. H. Auden (2006). “Intimate Journals”, p.81, Courier Corporation

• France at the dinner table in faraway places; but here, among ourselves, in the family, let us face the facts: France is not poetic; to tell the truth, she even feels a congenital horror of poetry. Among the writers who use verse, those whom she will always prefer are the most prosaic.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Use, France, Facts

  "Baudelaire as a literary critic".

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