Quotes by : Joris-Karl Huysmans

I marvel at the placidity of the Utopian who imagines that man is perfectible. There is no denying that....

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

Really, when I think it over, literature has only one excuse for existing; it saves the person who makes....

Every one has a sum of physical and moral suffering to pay, and whoever does not settle it here below,....

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

Worshiping the Devil is no more insane than worshiping God...It is precisely at the moment when positivism....

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.