Leopold von Sacher-Masoch Quotes About Pleasure

Quotes about: Pleasure

• Desire followed the glance, pleasure followed desire

  Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

  Desire, Pleasure, Glances

• Once I no longer exist as I am, out of what consideration then should I forgo anything? Should I belong to a man I don't love simply because I used to love him? No, I forgo nothing, I love any man who appeals to me and I make any man who loves me happy. Is that ugly? No, it is at least far more beautiful than my cruelly delighting in the tortures incited by my charms and my virtuously turning my back on the poor man who pines away for me. I am young, rich, and beautiful, and just as I am, I live cheerfully for pleasure and enjoyment.

  Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

  Beautiful, Men, Ugly

• People who want to live like Olympian gods must have slaves whom they throw into their fishponds and gladiators who fight during their masters sumptuous banquets-and the pleasure-seekers never care if some blood splatters on them.

  Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

  Fighting, Blood, People

• If I can't enjoy the full and total happiness of love, then I want to drain its torments, its tortures to the dregs; then I want the woman I love to mistreat me, betray me, and the more cruelly the better. That too is a pleasure.

  Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

  Want, Pleasure, Drains

• You know how to paint pleasure, cruelty, arrogance in glowing colors.

  Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

  Glowing, Color, Arrogance

  Leopold von Sacher-Masoch (2015). “Venus in Furs”, p.57, Cosimo Classics

• Pleasure alone makes existence worthwhile. A pleasure-seeker has a difficult time parting from life.

  Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

  Difficult Times, Pleasure, Worthwhile

• Every woman has the instinct, the propensity to profit from her charms, and there's a lot to be said for giving oneself without love, without pleasure.

  Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

  Giving, Pleasure, Instinct

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