573 Quotes by Charles Baudelaire

Car je cherche le vide, el le noir, el le nu!

On peut chercher dans Dieu le complice et l'ami qui manquent toujours. Dieu est l'éternel confident dans cette tragédie dont chacun est le héros.

I have felt the wind on the wing of madness.

The one vice beyond redemption is to do bad things out of stupidity.

I set out to discover the why of it, and to transform my pleasure into knowledge.

The immense appetite we have for biography comes from a deep-seated sense of equality.

Music fathoms the sky.

To be wicked is never excusable, but there is some merit in knowing that you are; the most irreparable of vices is to do evil from stupidity.

It is at despair at not being able to be noble and beautiful by natural means that we have made up our faces so strangely.