Quotes by Bataille, Georges

Eroticism is assenting to life even in death. >>

Crime is a fact of the human species, a fact of that species alone, bu >>

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

Quotations about Ecstasy

O my God, what must a soul be like when it is in this state! It longs >>

Life has always taken place in a tumult without apparent cohesion, but >>

Ecstasy is not really part of the scene we can do on celluloid. >>

Life has always taken place in a tumult without apparent cohesion, but it only finds its grandeur and its reality in ecstasy and in ecstatic love.

Bataille, Georges