Marquis de Sade Quotes About Pleasure

Quotes about: Pleasure

• It is always by way of pain one arrives at pleasure.

  Marquis de Sade

  Pain, Way, Kinky

  Marquis de Sade “Philosophy in the Bedroom: An Erotic Novel”, Library of Alexandria

• Sex should be a perfect balance of pain and pleasure. Without that symmetry, sex becomes a routine rather than an indulgence.

  Marquis de Sade

  Sex, Pain, Perfect

• There is no more lively sensation than that of pain; its impressions are certain and dependable, they never deceive as may those of the pleasure women perpetually feign and almost never experience.

  Marquis de Sade

  Pain, Hype, Kinky

• The pleasure of the senses is always regulated in accordance with the imagination. Man can aspire to felicity only by serving all the whims of his imagination.

  Marquis de Sade

  Men, Imagination, Pleasure

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

• How delightful are the pleasures of the imagination! In those delectable moments, the whole world is ours; not a single creature resists us, we devastate the world, we repopulate it with new objects which, in turn, we immolate. The means to every crime is ours, and we employ them all, we multiply the horror a hundredfold.

  Marquis de Sade

  Mean, Imagination, World

• One must do violence to the object of one's desire; when it surrenders, the pleasure is greater.

  Marquis de Sade

  Desire, Violence, Surrender

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

• Crime is the soul of lust. What would pleasure be if it were not accompanied by crime? It is not the object of debauchery that excites us, rather the idea of evil.

  Marquis de Sade

  Ideas, Evil, Soul

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

• The imagination is the spur of delights... all depends upon it, it is the mainspring of everything; now, is it not by means of the imagination one knows joy? Is it not of the imagination that the sharpest pleasures arise?

  Marquis de Sade

  Mean, Imagination, Joy

• 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

• There is a kind of pleasure which comes from sacrilege or the profanation of the objects offered us for worship.

  Marquis de Sade

  Kind, Worship, Pleasure

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

• Is it not of the imagination that the sharpest pleasures arise?

  Marquis de Sade

  Imagination, Pleasure, Arise

• I have supported my deviations with reasons; I did not stop at mere doubt; I have vanquished, I have uprooted, I have destroyed everything in my heart that might have interfered with my pleasure.

  Marquis de Sade

  Art, Doubt, Might

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

• It is only by enlarging the scope of one’s tastes and one’s fantasies, by sacrificing everything to pleasure, that the unfortunate individual called Man, thrown despite himself into this sad world, can succeed in gathering a few roses among life’s thorns

  Marquis de Sade

  Sacrifice, Men, Sacrificing Everything

• If it is the dirty element that gives pleasure to the act of lust, then the dirtier it is, the more pleasurable it is bound to be.

  Marquis de Sade

  Dirty, Giving, Lust

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

• Thread of their days without pity, and in the midst of life, without ever concerning themselves with this fatal moment, living as though they were to exist for ever, they disappear into the obscure cloud of immortality, uncertain of the fate which lies in store for them.

  Marquis de Sade

  Lying, Fate, Cutting

  "Eugénie de Franval".

• Fear not lest precautions and protective contrivances diminish your pleasure: mystery only adds thereto.

  Marquis de Sade

  Add, Mystery, Pleasure

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

• Consider the problem from the point of view of evil, evil being almost always pleasure's true and major charm; considered thus, the crime must appear greater when perpetrated upon a being of your identical sort than when inflicted upon one which is not, and this once established, the delight automatically doubles.

  Marquis de Sade

  Truth, Honesty, Light

  Marquis de Sade (2013). “120 Days of Sodom”, p.245, Simon and Schuster

• Do not breed. Nothing gives less pleasure than childbearing. Pregnancies are damaging to health, spoil the figure, wither the charms, and it's the cloud of uncertainty forever hanging over these events that darkens a husband's mood.

  Marquis de Sade

  Husband, Pregnancy, Clouds

• It has, moreover, been proven that horror, nastiness, and the frightful are what give pleasure when one fornicates. Beauty is a simple thing; ugliness is the exceptional thing. And fiery imaginations, no doubt, always prefer the extraordinary thing to the simple thing.

  Marquis de Sade

  Beauty, Simple, Imagination

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

• If the objects who serve us feel ecstacy, they are much more often concerned with themselves than with us, and our own enjoyment is consequently impaired. The idea of seeing another person experience the same pleasure reduces one to a kind of equality which spoils the unutterable charms that come from despotism.

  Marquis de Sade

  Happiness, Men, Equality

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

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