Richard von Krafft-Ebing Quotes

• Purely sensual love is never true and lasting, for which reason first love is, as a rule, but a passing infatuation, a fleeting passion.

  Richard von Krafft-Ebing

  Passion, First Love, Love Is

  "Psychopathia Sexualis: A Medico-Forensic Study".

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• There are men who have themselves whipped simply to increase their sexual pleasure. These, in contrast with true masochists, regard flagellation as a means to an end.

  Richard von Krafft-Ebing

  Mean, Men, Pleasure

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• How deep congenital sex-inversion roots may be gathered from the fact that the pleasure-dream of the male Urning has to do with male persons, and of the female with females.

  Richard von Krafft-Ebing

  Dream, Sex, Roots

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• All my joys resemble more a momentary intoxication than the real gold of happiness. It was all but an illusion.

  Richard von Krafft-Ebing

  Break Up, Breakup, Real

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• Nature has made a mistake in the choice of my sexuality and I must do a life-long penance for it, for the moral power to suffer the unavoidable with dignity is lost.

  Richard von Krafft-Ebing

  Mistake, Long, Choices

  Richard Von Krafft-Ebing (2013). “Psychopathia Sexualis: A Medico-Forensic Study”, p.418, Butterworth-Heinemann

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• I have fooled life and life has fooled me. We are quits. I say good-bye. Think sometimes in the hour of happiness of your poor, comical fool who loved you truly and so well.

  Richard von Krafft-Ebing

  Break Up, Breakup, Thinking

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• The thought of a comedy with paid prostitutes always seemed so silly and purposeless, for a person hired by me could never take the place of my imagination of a 'cruel mistress'.

  Richard von Krafft-Ebing

  Silly, Imagination, Mistress

  Richard Von Krafft-Ebing (2013). “Psychopathia Sexualis: A Medico-Forensic Study”, p.146, Butterworth-Heinemann

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• He soon recognized the fact that the stimulus proceeded from the idea to be in the power of a woman rather than from the act of violence itself.

  Richard von Krafft-Ebing

  Ideas, Violence, Facts

  Richard Von Krafft-Ebing (2013). “Psychopathia Sexualis: A Medico-Forensic Study”, p.156, Butterworth-Heinemann

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