Joris-Karl Huysmans quotes

Worshiping the Devil is no more insane than worshiping God... It is precisely at the moment when positivism is at its high-water mark that mysticism stirs into life and the follies of occultism begin. (Joris-Karl Huysmans)

Menacing lines of black tomorrows on the horizon.

Joris-Karl Huysmans

Already, he was dreaming of a refined solitude, a comfortable desert, a motionless ark in which to seek refuge from the unending deluge of human stupidity.

Joris-Karl Huysmans

Immersed in solitude, he would dream or read far into the night. By protracted contemplation of the same thoughts, his mind grew sharp, his vague, undeveloped ideas took on form.

Joris-Karl Huysmans

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

Joris-Karl Huysmans

How inferior the human machine is, compared to man-made machines. They can be decoked, unscrewed, oiled and parts replaced. Decidedly, nature is not a very wonderful thing.

Joris-Karl Huysmans

I wish to confound all these people, to create a work of art of a supernatural realism and of a spiritualist naturalism. I wish to prove... that nothing is explained in the mysteries which surround us.

Joris-Karl Huysmans

I seek new perfumes, ampler blossoms, untried pleasures.

Joris-Karl Huysmans

Joris-Karl Huysmans

Joris-Karl Huysmans - Image

Occupation: Novelist
Born: February 5, 1848
Died: May 12, 1907
Quotes count: 8

Related authors

Michel Houellebecq 27

French Author

Émile Zola 63

French Journalist

Guy de Maupassant 63

French Writer

Leon Bloy 22

Novelist

Octave Mirbeau 25

French Writer

Oscar Wilde 1197

Irish Poet

Alphonse Daudet 16

French Novelist

Charles Baudelaire 232

French Poet

Stéphane Mallarmé 50

French Poet

Gabriele d'Annunzio 1

Italian Poet