Quotes by : Joris-Karl Huysmans

I shall be in Paris in two days. Well, all is finished. The waves ofhuman mediocrity rise to the sky....

To love at a distance and without hope; never to possess; to dream chastely of pale charms and impossible....

Ah; but my courage fails me, and my heart is sick within me! —Lord, take pity on the Christian who....

The only people who are worth knowing are either saints, scoundrels or madmen; at least their conversation....

The heart, said to be man’s noblest organ, has the same shape as the penis, commonly supposed the most....

Goya’s savage verve, his harsh, brutal genius, captivated Des Esseintes. On the other hand, the universal....

His scorn of humanity grew by what it fed on; he realized in fact that the world is mostly made up of....

Far from seeking to justify, as does the Church, the necessity of torments and afflictions, he cried,....

Menacing lines of black tomorrows on the horizon.

Art and prayer are the only decent ejaculations of the soul.