All Georges Bataille Quotes
- Eroticism, it may be said, is assenting to life up to the point of death Assenting
- The need to go astray, to be destroyed, is an extremely private, distant, passionate, turbulent truth. Astray
- 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… Backgrounds
- We did not lack modesty—on the contrary—but something urgently drove us to defy modesty together as immodestly as possible. Contrary
- But a sort of rupture-in anguish-leaves us at the limit of tears: in such a case we lose ourselves, we forget ourselves and communicate with… Anguish
- The sexual act is in time what the tiger is in space. Act
- In what will survive me I am in harmony with my annihilation. Annihilation
- Incredible nervous state, trepidation beyond words: to be this much in love is to be sick (and I love to be sick). Beyond
- The power of death signifies that this real world can only have a neutral image of life, that life's intimacy does not reveal it's dazzling… Consumption
- Only literature could reveal the process of breaking the law - without which the law would have no end - independently of the necessity to… Breaking
- Indeed, the direction of the future is only there in order to elude us. Direction
- To others, the universe seems decent because decent people have welded eyes. That is why they fear lewdness. They are never frightened by the crowing… Condition
- 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… Cry
- Nothing is more necessary or stronger in us than rebellion. Inspirational
- Sovereignty, loyalty, and solitude. Inspirational
- I think that knowledge enslaves us, that at the base of all knowledge there is a servility, the acceptation of a way of life wherein… Acceptation
- We have in fact only two certainties in this world - that we are not everything and that we will die. Certainties
- The fact is, that what de Sade was trying to bring to the surface of the conscious mind was precisely the thing that revolted that… Bring
- The warrior's nobility is like a prostitute's smile, the truth of which is self-interest. Interest
- 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… Clear
- You perhaps now know that desire reduces us to pulp. Desire
- A man who finds himself among others is irritated because he does not know why he is not one of the others. In bed next… Among
- I don't want your love unless you know i am repulsive,and love me even as you know it. Inspirational
- Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit; to become delightful, happiness must be tainted with poison. Become Delightful