Charles Baudelaire Quotes, Thoughts and images

One can only forget about time by making use of it.

Where ever I am not is the place where I am myself.

Strangeness is a necessary ingredient in beauty.

The devil's finest trick is to persuade you that he does not exist.

A multitude of small delights constitute happiness

Extract the eternal from the ephemeral.

Nothing can be done except little by little.

There are some temptations which are so strong that they must be virtues.

Genius is nothing more nor less than childhood recaptured at will.

Perfumes, colours and sounds echo one another.

God is the only being who, in order to reign, doesn't even need to exist.

Through the Unknown, we'll find the New

What is irritating about love is that it is a crime that requires an accomplice.

Dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music

The world progresses only through misunderstanding.

Whether you come from heaven or hell, what does it matter, O Beauty!

I can barely conceive of a type of beauty in which there is no Melancholy.

Remembering is only a new form of suffering.

I have cultivated my hysteria with pleasure and terror.

Let us beware of common folk, of common sense, of sentiment, of inspiration, and of the obvious.

The People adore authority.

A silent mouth is sweet to hear.

The poet enjoys the incomparable privilege of being able to be himself and others, as he wishes.

Any man who does not accept the conditions of life sells his soul.

I felt passing over me the wind of the wing of madness.

Always be a poet, even in prose.

Those men get along best with women who can get along best without them.

A work of art should be like a well-planned crime.

Evil comes up softly like a flower.

Progress, this great heresy of decay.

Life has but one true charm: the charm of the game. But what if we’re indifferent to whether we win or lose?

Evil is committed without effort, naturally, fatally; goodness is always the product of some art.

Everything that is beautiful and noble is the product of reason and calculation.

Life swarms with innocent monsters.

There are as many kinds of beauty as there are habitual ways of seeking happiness.