Top 62 Quotes by Charles Baudelaire

This life is a hospital in which every patient is possessed with a desire to change his bed.

Modernity signifies the transitory, the fugitive, the contingent, the half of art of which the other half is the eternal and the immutable.

As a small child, I felt in my heart two contradictory feelings, the horror of life and the ecstasy of life.

Even in the centuries which appear to us to be the most monstrous and foolish, the immortal appetite for beauty has always found satisfaction.

There is no dream of love, however ideal it may be, which does not end up with a fat, greedy baby hanging from the breast.

Anybody, providing he knows how to be amusing, has the right to talk about himself.

It is from the womb of art that criticism was born.

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 priest is an immense being because he makes the crowd believe astonishing things.