quote starters [2]
( CHARLES BAUDELAIRE. )
- “One should always be drunk.”
- “The devil’s finest trick is to persuade you that he does not exist.”
- “Remembering is only a new form of suffering.”
- “The beautiful is always bizarre.”
- “It is the horrible burden of time, weighing on your shoulders and crushing you to the earth.”
- “Life swarms with innocent monsters.”
- “I have cultivated my hysteria with pleasure and terror.”
- “Life has but one true charm: the charm of the game.”
- “What if we’re indifferent to whether we win or lose?”
- “What can an eternity of damnation matter to someone who has felt, if only for a second, the infinity of delight?”
- “The Devil pulls the strings which make us dance.”
- “We find delight in the most loathsome things.”
- “I am a cemetery by the moon, unblessed.”
- “A multitude of small delights constitute happiness.”
- “You walk on corpses, beauty, undismayed.”
- “Even when she walks one would believe that she dances.”
- “Evil is committed without effort, naturally, fatally.”
- “Goodness is always the product of some art.”
- “Nature has no imagination.”
- “Pleasure consumes us.”
- “My heart is lost; the beasts have eaten it.”
- “It is the hour to be drunken!”
- “I am damned.”
- “Through the unknown, we’ll find the new.”
- “I am the vampire of my own heart.”
- “Am I dead? I must be dead.”
- “Let us love gently.”
- “The abyss waits to claim me as its own.”
- “The Devil’s hand directs our every move; the things we loathed become the things we love.”
- “My soul does not reply. My soul remains mute. Not a word. – Is my soul dead?”
- “It doesn’t matter where! As long as it’s out of this world!”
- “Have you then reached such a degree of torpor that you are only happy with your illness?”
- “Heaven or hell — Who cares?”
- “You shall be the queen of all men.”
- “In the wasteland of desire, your eyes afford the wells to slake my thirst.”
- “To wine, I prefer the elixir of your lips on which love flaunts itself.”
- “Get drunk and stay that way.”
- “How little remains of the man I once was.”
- “Gold? I hate it as you hate God.”
- “Neither tears nor laughter do I know.”
- “Can monsters exist in the sight of one who alone knows how they were invented?”
- “Flesh is willing, but the soul requires patience for its song.”
- “But what does it matter what reality is outside myself?”
- “Go then, with no perfume or pearls, only your nudity.”
- “Each day we take another step to hell, descending through the stench, unhorrified.”
- “I know that pain is the one nobility, upon which Hell itself cannot encroach.”
- “Evil comes up softly like a flower.”
- “It seems to me that I will always be happy in the place where I am not.”
- “Who cares if you’re a blessing or a curse, so long as you bring light?”
- “A god we shall create together, and we shall soar heavenward like sunbeams.”
- “Suffering is a sacred remedy for all our sins.”
- “A soul is a thing so impalpable, so often useless and sometimes such a nuisance.”
- “To be wicked is never excusable.”
- “Love is very similar to torture.”
- “A tender heart unnerved by nothingness, hoards every fragment of the radiant past.”
- “People adore authority.”
- “Bring me your scarred breast.”
- “Thought is incommunicable, even between people who love each other.”
- ““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.”
- “My love is deep and gentle as the calmest seas.”