Charles Baudelaire Quotes

To be human and to be adult means constantly to be in the grip of opposing emotions, to have daily to reconcile apparently conflicting tensions. I want this, but need that. I cherish this, but I adore its opposite too.

I'm a Gemini, so I'm very dual. I love something and I hate it at the same time, so that probably comes out in the lyrics.

I've always been drawn to tormented people full of contradictions.

I loved her. I still love her, though I curse her in my sleep, so nearly one are love and hate, the two most powerful and devasting emotions that control man, nations, life.

You are ice and fire the touch of you burns my hands like snow.

I would say that I have a love-hate relationship with almost everything in my life, including stand-up.

I both love and do not love; and am mad and not mad.

Humans seem to be programmed to think of ambivalent feelings at the same time. That is the driving force behind human beings: to be the warrant of all things and to control other worlds.

My childhood was very beautiful in some ways and very disturbing in others.

It's a weird dynamic - I guess there is a fine line between hope and sadness. Sometimes you can be feeling both at the same time.

Songwriters such as Alanis Morissette write about the constant balance of contradictions, and that's something I adhere to in my life and work.

I loved feeling special. I hated feeling special.

My only love sprung from my only hate.

You are at once both the quiet and the confusion of my heart.

How can so much beauty hide such a bruised and steely heart, and why must I love him, why must I lean in my weariness upon his irresistible yet indomitable strength? Is he not the wizend funeral spirit of a dead man in a child's clothes?

There are people whose society I find delicious; but when I sit alone and think of them I shudder.

He loved the people just as much as he feared and detested persons.

What was new was the fact that, despite my heart doing its fight-or-flight, help-we're-prey-and-HEY-STUPID-THAT'S-A-VAMPIRE number, I was glad to see him. Ridiculous but true. Scary but true.

A woman's pity sometimes makes her mad.

The heart and the mind, what an enigma.

Isn't joyful or painful this pain in which I rejoice

His distress and pleasure mixed and married, giving birth to several anxious children.

To tell the truth I never had it so good. But I lacked the strength of character to bear such joy.

That was what gospel was meant to do - make you hate and love yourself at the same time, make you ashamed and glorified.