Jean Lorrain Quotes

#1. The fascinated loathing which he (Jean Lorrain) cultivated for the decadence of fin de siecle Paris has a good deal of envy and ardent desire in it; in the words of Hubert Juin, he 'loved his epoch to the point of detestation.'

(Introduction: "The Life And Career Of Jean Lorrain)

Francis Amery

#2. Art makes murder into the supreme image of Beauty and in doing so sets free the vengeful God. (referring to Jean Lorrain's LE VICE ERRANT)

Jennifer Birkett

#3. I try to block it out. But no matter how many times I hear her raging at me, her words still pierce through. I curl into my corner, trying to get as far from her as I can. She'll twist anything I say to fit her crazy logic and then throw it back at me. I

Susan Ee

#4. Alas! for that accursed time They bore thee o'er the billow, From love to titled age and crime, And an unholy pillow! From me, and from our misty clime, Where weeps the silver willow!

Edgar Allan Poe

#5. The beauty of the twentieth century is the charm of the hospital, the grace of the cemetery, of consumption and emaciation. I admit that I have submitted to it all; worse, I have loved with all my heart.

Jean Lorrain

#6. Her vice takes hold of her again, but she still refrains until some moment when, gnawed by some hideous caprice, she comes aground like a mournful wreck ruined by lust, in the midst of her own banal, perfidious pollution.

Jean Lorrain

#7. Wanting to die and dying, she found were two separate things.

Jane Yolen

#8. Soft, pretty things don't belong in a dead zone.

Susan Vaught

#9. A strange girl, all phosphorous and cantharides, burning with every desire! And burning with every vice!

Jean Lorrain

#10. Obviously, you can't control everything, but you are obliged to take care of the few things you can. I'm an optimist, basically, who acts like a pessimist. On principle. Just in case.

Russell Banks

#11. But that woman is an encyclopedia!
Of all vices, ancient and modern, and terribly interesting to leaf through!

Jean Lorrain

#12. The charm of horror only tempts the strong

Jean Lorrain

#13. There will always be those who want to tell you who you are based on your name or the blood in your veins. Do not let other people decide who you are. Decide for yourself.

Cassandra Clare

#14. And it seemed that my flesh crawled with the gentleness of those glaucous things evoked by the verse. It was as if fingertips, like cut emeralds or fresh olives, were stroking the palm of my hand.

Jean Lorrain

#15. Ingratitude' is the name which avatars of Narcissus give to the success of others.

Jean Lorrain

#16. In France, it is only permissible to admire statues but tropical countries have no such prejudices, and the emergent Oriental in me took full account of the admirable proportions and the harmony of the movements of the acrobat on the stage.

Jean Lorrain

#17. You see, the strangeness of my case is that now I no longer fear the invisible, I'm terrified by reality.

Jean Lorrain

#18. It is the sheer ugliness and banality of everyday life which turns my blood to ice and makes me cringe in terror.

Jean Lorrain

#19. (Priests) cheapjack merchants selling paradise

Jean Lorrain

#20. All through the long winter, I dream of my garden. On the first day of spring, I dig my fingers deep into the soft earth. I can feel its energy, and my spirits soar.

Helen Hayes

#21. I'm a deeply superficial person.

Andy Warhol

#22. To dream! Such dreams certainly make life more worth living ... and only dreams can do that for me.

Jean Lorrain

#23. The larvae! The scent of young blood entices and draws them closer. There's no need to venture into antiquity to evoke the shades of the dead.

Jean Lorrain

#24. After I pulled in, I decided in my typical fly-by-the-seat-of-my-pants fashion that if anyone asked, I was going to be "lost." I hoped no one would have the opportunity to look in the car. Lost and a fancy GPS system didn't go together.

Myra McEntire

#25. I am an idea in an era that has no more of them.

Jean Lorrain

#26. The sound came again. There was a whistle to it, and a moan. It was almost a hiss, and it could've been a strangled gasp. Above all, it was quiet, and it seemed to have no source.
It whispered.

Cherie Priest

#27. People invest in companies in order to get a share of the profit that company will make. If the Government increases its share of the profits, potential profits, at the expense of the owners of the company, the shareholders, then that makes investment in that company less attractive.

Malcolm Turnbull