Love Quotes by Charles Baudelaire

Dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music

— Charles Baudelaire

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

— Charles Baudelaire

“The act of love greatly resembles torture or surgery.”

— Charles Baudelaire

Unable to do away with love, the Church found a way to decontaminate it by creating marriage.

— Charles Baudelaire

Love is the natural occupation of the man of leisure.

— Charles Baudelaire

Passion I hate, and spirit does me wrong. Let us love gently.

— Charles Baudelaire

Always be drunk ... Get drunk militantly. Just get drunk.

— Charles Baudelaire

the Devil's hand directs our every move - / the things we loathed become the things we love

— Charles Baudelaire

La volupte unique et supre" me de l'amour g|"t dans la certitude de faire le mal. The unique, supreme pleasure of love…

— Charles Baudelaire

Romanticism is precisely situated neither in choice of subject, nor exact truth, but in the way of feeling.

— Charles Baudelaire

Delacroix was passionately in love with passion, but coldly determined to express passion as clearly as possible.

— Charles Baudelaire

I love the clouds... the clouds that pass by... over there... over there... those lovely clouds!

— Charles Baudelaire

A precious liquid, a poison dearer than that of the Borgias - because it is made from our blood, our health, our…

— Charles Baudelaire

The unique and supreme voluptuousness of love lies in the certainty of committing evil. And men and women know from birth that…

— Charles Baudelaire

“The child, in love with prints and maps, Holds the whole world in his vast appetite. How large the earth is under…

— Charles Baudelaire

In this horror of solitude, this need to lose his ego in exterior flesh, which man calls grandly the need for love.

— Charles Baudelaire

“I love to think of those naked epochs Whose statues Phoebus liked to tinge with gold. At that time men and women,…

— Charles Baudelaire

It is unfortunately very true that, without leisure and money, love can be no more than an orgy of the common man.…

— Charles Baudelaire

Both ardent lovers and austere scholars, when once they come to the years of discretion, love cats, so strong and gentle, the…

— Charles Baudelaire

My love, do you recall the object which we saw, That fair, sweet, summer morn! At a turn in the path a…

— Charles Baudelaire

What men call love is a very small, restricted, feeble thing compared with this ineffable orgy, this divine prostitution of the soul…

— Charles Baudelaire

“Meanwhile, in the expansiveness of her joy, the Moon filled all of the room like a phosphoric atmosphere, like a luminous poison;…

— Charles Baudelaire

Tell me, enigmatical man, whom do you love best, your father, Your mother, your sister, or your brother? I have neither father,…

— Charles Baudelaire

“You shall suffer for ever the influence of my kiss. You shall be beautiful in my fashion. You shall love that which…

— Charles Baudelaire

“believe I already wrote in my notes that love was very similar to torture or surgery. But this idea can be developed…

— Charles Baudelaire

The habit of doing one's duty drives away fear.

— Charles Baudelaire

I throw fresh seeds out. Who knows what survives?

— Charles Baudelaire

“Romanticism is a grace, celestial or infernal, that bestows us eternal stigmata.”

— Charles Baudelaire

Strangeness is the indispensable condiment of all beauty.

— Charles Baudelaire

We love women in proportion to their degree of strangeness to us.

— Charles Baudelaire

Genius is simply childhood, rediscovered by an act of will.

— Charles Baudelaire

For me, Romanticism is the most recent and the most current expression of beauty.

— Charles Baudelaire

What is love? The need of coming out of one's self.

— Charles Baudelaire

The act of love strongly resembles torture or surgery.

— Charles Baudelaire

When a singer puts his hand on his heart, it means usually, I will always love you!

— Charles Baudelaire

Love is a taste for prostitution. In fact, there is no noble pleasure that cannot be reduced to Prostitution.

— Charles Baudelaire

To say the word Romanticism is to say modern art - that is, intimacy, spirituality, color, aspiration towards the infinite, expressed by…

— Charles Baudelaire

Beware of all the paradoxical in love. It is simplicity which saves, it is simplicity which brings happiness...Love should be love.

— Charles Baudelaire

What I say is that the supreme and singular joy of making love resides in the certainty of doing evil.

— Charles Baudelaire

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

— Charles Baudelaire