573 Quotes by Charles Baudelaire

Everything considered, work is less boring than amusing oneself.

To lepers and to outcasts thou dost show - that passion is the paradise below

It would perhaps be nice to be alternately the victim and the executioner.

I am the wound and the knife! I am the slap and the cheek! I am the limbs and the rack, And the victim and the executioner! I am the vampire of my own heart.

Even when she walks one would believe that she dances.

A multitude of small delights constitute happiness

For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

In certain almost supernatural states of the soul, the profundity of life reveals itself entirely in the spectacle, however ordinary it may be, before one's eyes. It becomes its symbol.

Nothing is as tedious as the limping days, When snowdrifts yearly cover all the ways, And ennui, sour fruit of incurious gloom, Assumes control of fate’s immortal loom