Charles Baudelaire Quotes

What a blessed if painful thing, this business of being alive.

There is nothing alive more agonized than man / of all that breathe and crawl across the earth.

How wonderful to be alive, he thought. But why does it always hurt?

I'm attracted to pathos, because life is mostly pathos. I've had a lot of it in my life.

Why should some people have such a hard time during their few years on this earth?

My life has been like all the lives, long and hard and full of sadness and confusion and horror, a frightening, difficult dream punctuated by brief moments of joy. And as is the case with all people's lives, the moments of joy are never often enough and never long enough.

It’s precisely because of the pain, the we can get the feeling, through this process, of really being alive—or at least a partial sense of it.

How can we manage to illuminate the pathos of our lives?

Pain is a beautiful thing. When you feel pain, you know you're alive.

I wanted to understand pain and the human condition, which is full of pain and regret and sadness - and some happiness, if you're lucky.

Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain, and it is only with the highest degree of intelligence that suffering reaches its supreme point.

Pain is life - the sharper, the more evidence of life.

Life is hard. It is. And it's like, I don't want anybody feeling any pain.

Everyone is battling something emotional behind closed doors - that's life.

But how to explain suffering because of a man? It's not explainable. With that kind of suffering, a person feels as if they're in hell, because there is no nobility, no greatness - only misery.

She said, "It's not life or death, the labyrinth." "Um, okay. So what is it?" "Suffering," she said. "Doing wrong and having wrong things happen to you. That's the problem. Bolivar was talking about the pain, not about the living or dying. How do you get out of the labyrinth of suffering?... Nothing's wrong. But there's always suffering, Pudge. Homework or malaria or having a boyfriend who lives far away when there's a good-looking boy lying next to you. Suffering is universal. It's the one thing Buddhists, Christians, and Muslims are all worried about."

O, let him pass. He hates him That would upon the rack of this tough world Stretch him out longer.

Where there is love, there is bound to be heartache.

Therefore, to be unhappy one must love, or love to suffer, or suffer from too much happiness. I hope you're getting this down.

Life is short, but its ills make it seem long.

You must remember that no one lives a life free from pain and suffering.

To be a human being is to suffer. But it's the unnecessary suffering, it's the suffering that we visit upon one another, that really should be stopped.

When you're in pain, you're genuinely very, very alive, and that's beautiful. Especially emotional pain.

What else are our lives but a story we tell ourselves to find some sense in the pain ofliving?

It's a hard place this world can be. No wonder a baby cries coming in to it. Tears from the start