Top 32 Lorrain's Quotes
#1. 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
#2. If you don't want to know someone, then you will never really know them.
Daisuke Hagiwara
#5. But when on shore, & wandering in the sublime forests, surrounded by views more gorgeous than even Claude ever imagined, I enjoy a delight which none but those who have experienced it can understand - If it is to be done, it must be by studying Humboldt.
Charles Darwin
#6. I sat up, sliding them off, and the quiet around me did not, for once, seem empty and vast. Instead, for the first time in a while, it felt like it already was full.
Sarah Dessen
#7. But that woman is an encyclopedia!
Of all vices, ancient and modern, and terribly interesting to leaf through!
Jean Lorrain
#8. A strange girl, all phosphorous and cantharides, burning with every desire! And burning with every vice!
Jean Lorrain
#9. I train and I go home, and when I'm home, I think about training. That's my life every day, and that's it.
Conor McGregor
#10. Whenever I go on holiday, I like to time travel and imagine what it must have been like 500 years ago. I love the Tuscan landscape, which is reminiscent of a Claude Lorrain painting.
Jools Holland
#11. Everyone in a decadent society, Lorrain urges, is guilty. Everyone loves masking murder and everyone takes masochistic pleasure in the risk of discovery and punishment.
Jennifer Birkett
#12. 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
#13. After all, everybody has secrets and there are some things that nobody knows about you but only you, right?
Halle Berry
#14. 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
#15. You never find people laboring to convince you that you may live very happily upon a plentiful income.
Samuel Johnson
#16. Now multitudes of root words are identical in the American languages over vast areas some of them with precisely the same senses, and others with various shades of analogical meaning.
John W. Dawson
#17. But if you remove a tyrant in anything other than an open and visible way, another tyrant soon stands up to replace him.
Juliet Marillier
#18. 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
#19. Ingratitude' is the name which avatars of Narcissus give to the success of others.
Jean Lorrain
#20. Of the modern critics, although I disagree with almost everything she says, I admire Mary McCarthy's eloquence and social observation in 'Sights and Spectacles'; she thinks in print, but she doesn't have a real feel for the stage.
John Lahr
#21. 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
#22. You see, the strangeness of my case is that now I no longer fear the invisible, I'm terrified by reality.
Jean Lorrain
#23. It is the sheer ugliness and banality of everyday life which turns my blood to ice and makes me cringe in terror.
Jean Lorrain
#24. (Priests) cheapjack merchants selling paradise
Jean Lorrain
#25. 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
#26. Funk is the unending cycle of life. It's the ultimate concept - wherever your imagination will take it.
Xenobia Bailey
#27. To dream! Such dreams certainly make life more worth living ... and only dreams can do that for me.
Jean Lorrain
#28. 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
#29. I am an idea in an era that has no more of them.
Jean Lorrain
#30. Someone said to me at a party once, 'Oh, yeah, you're a comedian? Then how come you're not funny now?' And I just wanted to say, 'Well, I'm just going to take this conversation we're having and then repeat that to strangers, and then that's the joke. You're the joke later.'
Mike Birbiglia
#31. My message isn't perfectly defined. I have, as a human being, fallen to peer pressure.
Kanye West
#32. In writing, I want to be remembered for telling good stories in beautiful and powerful language, using the poetry of words to reflect the thematic concerns of compelling stories.
Kim Edwards
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