Charles Baudelaire Quotes About Love

Quotes about: Love

• What is love? The need of coming out of one's self.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Love, Self, Needs

  Charles Baudelaire (1919). “Baudelaire, His Prose and Poetry”

• 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.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Love, Sex, World

  Charles Baudelaire (1972). “Selected writings on art and artists [of] Beaudelaire”, Penguin Books

• 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

• It is unfortunately very true that, without leisure and money, love can be no more than an orgy of the common man. Instead of being a sudden impulse full of ardor and reverie, it becomes a distastefully utilitarian affair.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Love, Men, Leisure

• Love is a taste for prostitution. In fact, there is no noble pleasure that cannot be reduced to Prostitution.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Love, Noble, Taste

• Love is the natural occupation of the man of leisure.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Love, Men, Occupation

• What I say is that the supreme and singular joy of making love resides in the certainty of doing evil.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Love, Evil, Joy

  David Paul, Charles Baudelaire (1996). “Poison and vision: poems and prose of Baudelaire, Mallarmé and Rimbaud”, Univ of Salzberg Pr

• Beware of all the paradoxical in love. It is simplicity which saves, it is simplicity which brings happiness...Love should be love.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Love, Simplicity, Should

• I love the clouds... the clouds that pass by... over there... over there... those lovely clouds!

  Charles Baudelaire

  Love, Clouds, Lovely

• Unable to do away with love, the Church found a way to decontaminate it by creating marriage.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Love, Creating, Church

  "Intimate journals: Mon cœur mis à nu". Book by Charles Baudelaire, 1864.

• The act of love strongly resembles torture or surgery.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Love, Acts Of Love, Torture

  "Intimate Journals: Fusées". Book by Charles Baudelaire, 1867.

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