168 Quotes by Georges Bataille

The owl flies, in the moonlight, over a field where the wounded cry out. Like the owl, I fly in the night over my own misfortune.

We want to decipher skies and paintings, go behind these starry backgrounds or these painted canvases and, like kids trying to find a gap in a fence, try to look through the cracks in the world.

We have in fact only two certainties in this world - that we are not everything and that we will die.

It is clear that the world is purely parodic, that each thing seen is the parody of another, or is the same thing in a deceptive form.

Incredible nervous state, trepidation beyond words: to be this much in love is to be sick (and I love to be sick).

The sexual act is in time what the tiger is in space.

The need to go astray, to be destroyed, is an extremely private, distant, passionate, turbulent truth.

Eroticism differs from animal sexuality in that human sexuality is limited by taboos and the domain of eroticism is that of the transgression of these taboos. Desire in eroticism is the desire that triumphs over the taboo. It presupposes man in conflict with himself.

I don't want your love unless you know i am repulsive,and love me even as you know it.