Marquis de Sade Quotes About Passion

Quotes about: Passion

• Lust's passion will be served; it demands, it militates, it tyrannizes.

  Marquis de Sade

  Passion, Lust, Demand

• My passions, concentrated on a single point, resemble the rays of a sun assembled by a magnifying glass: they immediately set fire to whatever object they find in their way.

  Marquis de Sade

  Passion, Fire, Glasses

  Sade (marquis de), Marquis de Sade (1987). “The 120 days of Sodom and other writings”, Grove Pr

• Let us give ourselves indiscriminately to everything our passions suggest, and we will always be happy...Conscience is not the voice of Nature but only the voice of prejudice.

  Marquis de Sade

  Passion, Voice, Giving

• Lust is to the other passions what the nervous fluid is to life; it supports them all, lends strength to them all ambition, cruelty, avarice, revenge, are all founded on lust.

  Marquis de Sade

  Revenge, Passion, Ambition

• Sexual pleasure is, I agree, a passion to which all others are subordinate but in which they all unite.

  Marquis de Sade

  Sex, Passion, Pleasure

  Sade (marquis de), Marquis de Sade (1987). “The 120 days of Sodom and other writings”, Grove Pr

• Are not laws dangerous which inhibit the passions? Compare the centuries of anarchy with those of the strongest legalism in any country you like and you will see that it is only when the laws are silent that the greatest actions appear.

  Marquis de Sade

  Country, Passion, Law

• Humane sentiments are baseless, mad, and improper; they are incredibly feeble; never do they withstand the gainsaying passions, never do they resist bare necessity.

  Marquis de Sade

  Passion, Mad, Pity

  marquis de Sade (1988). “Juliette”, Grove Press

• All, all is theft, all is unceasing and rigorous competition in nature; the desire to make off with the substance of others is the foremost - the most legitimate - passion nature has bred into us and, without doubt, the most agreeable one.

  Marquis de Sade

  Passion, Competition, Doubt

• Crime is to the passions what nervous fluid is to life: it sustains them, it supplies their strength.

  Marquis de Sade

  Passion, Nervous, Crime

• They declaim against the passions without bothering to think that it is from their flame philosophy lights its torch.

  Marquis de Sade

  Philosophy, Passion, Thinking

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