Quotes by Bataille, Georges

Naturally, love's the most distant possibility. >>

I believe that truth has only one face: that of a violent contradictio >>

Each of us is incomplete compared to someone else -- an animal's incom >>

Quotations about Despair

The person who lives by hope will die by despair. >>

Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim. I >>

So long as we have failed to eliminate any of the causes of human desp >>

Intellectual despair results in neither weakness nor dreams, but in violence. It is only a matter of knowing how to give vent to one's rage; whether one only wants to wander like madmen around prisons, or whether one wants to overturn them.

Bataille, Georges