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Life Quotes by Charles Baudelaire
- The insatiable thirst for everything which lies beyond, and which life reveals, is the most living proof of our immortality.
- Any man who does not accept the conditions of life sells his soul.
- As a small child, I felt in my heart two contradictory feelings, the horror of life and the ecstasy of life.
- This life is a hospital in which every patient is possessed with a desire to change his bed.
- To the solemn graves, near a lonely cemetery, my heart like a muffled drum is beating funeral marches.
- The lover of life makes the whole world into his family, just as the lover of the fair sex creates his from all the lovely…
- The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous;…
- Every idea is endowed of itself with immortal life, like a human being. All created form, even that which is created by man, is immortal.…
- The devil's finest trick is to persuade you that he does not exist.
- How many years of fatigue and punishment it takes to learn the simple truth that work, that disagreeable thing, is the only way of not…
- Life has but one true charm: the charm of the game. But what if we’re indifferent to whether we win or lose?
- What strange phenomena we find in a great city, all we need do is stroll about with our eyes open. Life swarms with innocent monsters.
- Ascend beyond the sickly atmosphere to a higher plane, and purify yourself by drinking as if it were ambrosia the fire that fills and fuels…
- If rape or arson, poison or the knife Has wove no pleasing patterns in the stuff Of this drab canvas we accept as life -…
- And, drunk with my own madness, I shouted at him furiously, "Make life beautiful! Make life beautiful!
- This life is a hospital where every patient is possessed with the desire to change beds; one man would like to suffer in front of…
- Life has but one true charm: the charm of the game. But what if were indifferent to whether we win or lose?
More Life Quotes
- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies. — Aristotle
- Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies. — Aristotle
- We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Happiness depends upon ourselves. — Aristotle
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle