Charles Baudelaire Quotes

I believe in goals. It's never a bad thing to have a dream. If something is really what you want to do, just do it. Whatever your goal.

If all we seek is an escape, what does that say about the world we live in? That village, that city, that life? We are desperate with our dreams. What - oh, what - does that say?

To seek fulfillment is to invite frustration.

What does not satisfy when we find it, was not the thing we were desiring.

Those who are quite satisfied sit still and do nothing; those who are not quite satisfied are the sole benefactors of the world.

If a person holds no ambitions in this world, he suffers unknowingly. If a person holds ambitions, he suffers knowingly, but very slowly.

Try to live your life in a way that you will not regret years of useless virtue and inertia and timidity.

Well now what's the use in dreamin' You got better things to do Dreams never did work for me anyway Even when they did come true

You wear yourself out in the pursuit of wealth or love or freedom, you do everything to gain some right, and once it's gained you take no pleasure in it.

when we are weary, we speak lovingly of dreams as if they embodied our true deisres-What we WOULD have when that which we DO have so sorely disappoints us

In happy ignorance, I sighed for a world I did not know, where I hoped to find every pleasure and enjoyment which my heart could desire; and now, on my return from that wide world... how many disappointed hopes and unsuccessful plans have I brought back!

I don't know why this world keeps turning, round and round. But I wish it would stop and let me off right now!

Oh, must we dream our dreams and have them, too?

The dream of man's heart ... is that life may complete in significant pattern.

Dreams fulfilled are imperfect.

Oscar Wilde once said that to live is the rarest thing in the world, because most people just exist, and that's all. I don't know if he's right, but I do know that I spend a long time existing, and now, I intend to live.

How does one earn innocence? - by learning from frustration, by going deep into frustrations and realizing the fact that each frustration is an outcome of a certain dream. If you don't want frustrations, drop dreaming. Life is not frustrating, dreaming is frustrating.

To gain anything we have longed for is only to discover how vain and empty it is; and even though we are always living in expectation of better things, at the same time we often repent and long to have the past back again.

The want of a thing is perplexing enough, but the possession of it, is intolerable.

It doesn't matter what you're chasing, when you get there you're gonna be like, "Oh, is this all? It kind of sucks."

World can be a bewildering place,and dreams and ambitions are often paths to the most pernicious of traps

Between the wish and the thing the world lies waiting.

Fun... human nature... does no one any harm... Regular as clockwork the old excuses came back into the alert, sad and dissatisfied brain--nothing ever matched the deep excitement of the regular desire. Men always failed you when it came to the act. She might just as well have been to the pictures.

Such has often been my apathy, when objects long sought, and earnestly desired, were placed within my reach.

I look at her wish we could go inside and make love on the couch. Dive inside each other. Take each other. Make each other. Nothing happens, though.