Death Quote by Charles Baudelaire — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“Tell me, enigmatical man, whom do you love best, your father,”

“Relate comic things in pompous fashion. Irregularity, in other words the unexpected, the surprising, the astonishing, are essential to and characteristic of beauty. Two fundamental literary qualities: supernaturalism and irony. The blend of the grotesque and the tragic are attractive to the mind, as is discord to blasé ears. Imagine a canvas for a lyrical, magical farce, for a pantomime, and translate it into a serious novel. Drown the whole thing in an abnormal, dreamy atmosphere, in the atmosphere of great days … the region of pure poetry.”

“I walk alone, absorbed in my fantastic play, —”

“Il était tard; ainsi qu'une médaille neuve”

“Always be a poet, even in prose.”

“My heart is lost; the beasts have eaten it.”

“Corpses sour you. They are bad for objectivity.”

“Through Rohan over fen and field where the long grass grows”

“> Why does everything that lives have to die?”

“It’s natural to die. The fact that we make such a big hullabaloo over it is all because we don’t see ourselves as part of nature. We think because we’re human we’re something above nature.”

“In life we sit at the table and refuse to eat, and in death we are eternally hungry.”

“Well, right now I'm not dead. But when I am, it's like...I don't know, I guess it's like being inside a book that nobody's reading. [...] An old one. It's up on a library shelf, so you're safe and everything, but the book hasn't been checked out for a long, long time. All you can do is wait. Just hope somebody'll pick it up and start reading.”