Georges Bataille Quotes

“To choose evil is to choose freedom—“freedom, emancipation from all restraint.”
― Georges Bataille, On Nietzsche

“We can’t rely on anything. Except ourselves. Ludicrous responsibility devolves on us, overwhelms us. In every regard, right up the present, people always have relied on each other—or God.”
― Georges Bataille, On Nietzsche

“Love then screams in my own throat; I am the Jesuve, the filthy parody of the torrid and blinding sun.
I want to have my throat slashed while violating the girl to whom I will have been able to say: you are the night.
The Sun exclusively loves the Night and directs its luminous violence, its ignoble shaft, toward the earth, but finds itself incapable of reaching the gaze or the night, even though the nocturnal terrestrial expanses head continuously toward the indecency of the solar ray.
The solar annulus is the intact anus of her body at eighteen years to which nothing sufficiently blinding can be compared except the sun, even though the anus is night.”
― Georges Bataille, The Solar Anus

“Entirety exists within me as exuberance … in empty longing … in … the desire to burn with desire.”
― Georges Bataille, On Nietzsche

“Sacrifice is the movement of violent liberation from servility, the collapse of transcendence. Inhibiting the sacrificial relapse of isolated being
is the broad utilitarianism inherent to humanity, correlated with a profane delimitation from ferocious nature that finds its formula in theology. In its profane aspect, religion is

martialled under a conception of God; the final guarantor of persistent being, the
submission of (ruinous) time to reason, and thus the ultimate principle of utility.”
― Nick Land, The Thirst for Annihilation: Georges Bataille and Virulent Nihilism

“Sacrifice is the movement of violent liberation from servility, the collapse of transcendence. Inhibiting the sacrificial relapse of isolated being is the broad utilitarianism inherent to humanity, correlated with a profane delimitation from ferocious nature that finds its formula in theology. In its profane aspect, religion is martialled under a conception of God; the final guarantor of persistent being, the submission of (ruinous) time to reason, and thus the ultimate principle of utility.”
― Nick Land, The Thirst for Annihilation: Georges Bataille and Virulent Nihilism