Charles Baudelaire Quotes About Pleasure

Quotes about: Pleasure

• I have cultivated my hysteria with pleasure and terror.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Hysteria, Pleasure, Terror

  Charles Baudelaire (2013). “Flowers of Evil and Other Works: A Dual-Language Book”, p.263, Courier Corporation

• Everything that gives pleasure has its reason. To scorn the mobs of those who go astray is not the means to bring them around.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Mean, Giving, Reason

  "Salon de 1845". Book by Charles Baudelaire, May 1845.

• We are weighed down, every moment, by the conception and the sensation of Time. And there are but two means of escaping and forgetting this nightmare: pleasure and work. Pleasure consumes us. Work strengthens us. Let us choose.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Time, Mean, Night

  Charles Baudelaire, Christopher Isherwood, W. H. Auden (2006). “Intimate Journals”, p.107, Courier Corporation

• It is easy to understand why the rabble dislike cats. A cat is beautiful; it suggests ideas of luxury, cleanliness, voluptuous pleasures.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Beautiful, Cat, Ideas

  Charles Baudelaire, Christopher Isherwood, W. H. Auden (2006). “Intimate Journals”, p.49, Courier Corporation

• An artist is an artist only because of his exquisite sense of beauty, a sense which shows him intoxicating pleasures, but which at the same time implies and contains an equally exquisite sense of all deformities and all disproportion.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Artist, Pleasure, Deformity

• There are women who inspire you with the desire to conquer them and to take your pleasure of them; but this one fills you only with the desire to die slowly beneath her gaze.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Inspire, Desire, Conquer

  Charles Baudelaire, Louise Varèse (1970). “Paris Spleen, 1869”, p.78, New Directions Publishing

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

  Charles Baudelaire

  Pleasure

• There is no sweeter pleasure than to surprise a man by giving him more than he hopes for.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Men, Giving, Surprise

  Charles Baudelaire (2001). “The Prose Poems and La Fanfarlo”, p.74

• Poetry has no goal other than itself; it can have no other, and no poem will be so great, so noble, so truly worthy of the name of poem, than one written uniquely for the pleasure of writing a poem.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Writing, Names, Goal

• For the perfect idler, for the passionate observer it becomes an immense source of enjoyment to establish his dwelling in the throng, in the ebb and flow, the bustle, the fleeting and the infinite. To be away from home and yet to feel at home anywhere; to see the world, to be at the very centre of the world, and yet to be unseen of the world, such are some of the minor pleasures of those independent, intense and impartial spirits, who do not lend themselves easily to linguistic definitions. The observer is a prince enjoying his incognito wherever he goes.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Travel, Home, Independent

  "The Painter of Modern Life".

• La volupte unique et supre" me de l'amour g|"t dans la certitude de faire le mal. The unique, supreme pleasure of love consists in the certainty of doing evil.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Unique, Evil, Pleasure

• The being who, for most men, is the source of the most lively, and even, be it said, to the shame of philosophical delights, the most lasting joys; the being towards or for whom all their efforts tend for whom and by whom fortunes are made and lost; for whom, but especially by whom, artists and poets compose their most delicate jewels; from whom flow the most enervating pleasures and the most enriching sufferings - woman, in a word, is not, for the artist in general... only the female of the human species. She is rather a divinity, a star.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Stars, Women, Philosophical

• La, tout n’est qu’ordre et beauté Luxe, calme et volupté There, there is nothing else but grace and measure, Richness, quietness, and pleasure.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Grace, Pleasure, Richness

• The pleasure we derive from the representation of the present is due, not only to the beauty it can be clothed in, but also to its essential quality of being the present.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Beauty, Time, Aquariums

  Charles Baudelaire (1981). “Baudelaire: Selected Writings on Art and Artists”, p.391, CUP Archive

• My concern today is with the painting of manners of the present. The past is interesting not only by reason of the beauty which could be distilled from it by those artists for whom it was the present, but also precisely because it is the past, for its historical value. It is the same with the present. The pleasure which we derive from the representation of the present is due not only to the beauty with which it can be invested, but also to its essential quality of being present

  Charles Baudelaire

  Artist, Past, Historical Value

  Charles Baudelaire (1995). “The Painters of Modern Life”, Phaidon Incorporated Limited

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

  Charles Baudelaire

  Love, Noble, Taste

• The taste for pleasure attaches us to the present. The concern with our salvation leaves us hanging on the future.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Hanging On, Taste, Pleasure

• It is the pleasure of astonishing others, and the proud satisfaction of never being astonished by them.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Proud, Satisfaction, Pleasure

• What is exhilarating in bad taste is the aristocratic pleasure of giving offense.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Giving, Literature, Taste

  Charles Baudelaire, Christopher Isherwood, W. H. Auden (2006). “Intimate Journals”, p.49, Courier Corporation

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