Marquis de Sade famous quotes

It is always by way of pain one arrives at pleasure.
-- Marquis de Sade

#Pain #Way #Kinky

Your body is the church where Nature asks to be reverenced.
-- Marquis de Sade

#Love #Life #Fitness

We are no guiltier in following the primative impulses that govern us than is the Nile for her floods or the sea for her waves.
-- Marquis de Sade

#Sex #Sea #Wave

There is no God, Nature sufficeth unto herself; in no wise hath she need of an author.
-- Marquis de Sade

#Wise #Nature #Atheism

Nature has endowed each of us with a capacity for kindly feelings: let us not squander them on others.
-- Marquis de Sade

#Feelings #Capacity

I've already told you: the only way to a woman's heart is along the path of torment. I know none other as sure.
-- Marquis de Sade

#Heart #Kinky #Literature

She had already allowed her delectable lover to pluck that flower which, so different from the rose to which it is nevertheless sometimes compared, has not the same faculty of being reborn each spring.
-- Marquis de Sade

#Spring #Flower #Rose

You say that my way of thinking cannot be tolerated? What of it? The man who alters his way of thinking to suit othere is a fool. My way of thinking is the result of my reflections. It is part of my inner being,the way I am made. I do not contradict them, and would not even if I wished to. For my system, which you disapprove of is also my greatest comfort in life, the source of all my happiness -it means more to me than my life itself.
-- Marquis de Sade

#Mean #Reflection #Men

The majority of pop stars are complete idiots in every respect.
-- Marquis de Sade

#Stars #Majority #Idiot

Beauty belongs to the sphere of the simple, the ordinary, whilst ugliness is something extraordinary, and there is no question but that every ardent imagination prefers in lubricity, the extraordinary to the commonplace
-- Marquis de Sade

#Simple #Imagination #Spheres

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 #Rose

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 #Ambition #Passion

The idea of God is the sole wrong for which I cannot forgive mankind.
-- Marquis de Sade

#Ideas #Religion #Forgiving

Chimerical and empty being, your name alone has caused more blood to flow on the face of the earth than any political war ever will. Return to the nothingness from which the mad hope and ridiculous fright of men dared call you forth to their misfortune. You only appeared as a torment for the human race. What crimes would have been spared the world, if they had choked the first imbecile who thought of speaking of you.
-- Marquis de Sade

#War #Men #Blood

So long as the laws remain such as they are today, employ some discretion: loud opinion forces us to do so; but in privacy and silence let us compensate ourselves for that cruel chastity we are obliged to display in public.
-- Marquis de Sade

#Law #Long #Silence

Either kill me or take me as I am, because I'll be damned if I ever change.
-- Marquis de Sade

#Life #Take Me As I Am #Kill Me

No kind of sensation is keener and more active than that of pain its impressions are unmistakable.
-- Marquis de Sade

#Pain #Kind #Impression

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

Imperious, choleric, irascible, extreme in everything, with a dissolute imagination the like of which has never been seen, atheistic to the point of fanaticism, there you have me in a nutshell, and kill me again or take me as I am, for I shall not change.
-- Marquis de Sade

#Imagination #Atheism #Take Me As I Am

Behold, my love, behold all that I simultaneously do: scandal, seduction, bad example, incest, adultery, sodomy! Oh, Satan! one and unique God of my soul, inspire thou in me something yet more, present further perversions to my smoking heart, and then shalt thou see how I shall plunge myself into them all!
-- Marquis de Sade

#Heart #Unique #Smoking

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

Conversation, like certain portions of the anatomy, always runs more smoothly when lubricated.
-- Marquis de Sade

#Running #Certain #Conversation

Certain souls seem hard because they are capable of strong feelings, and they sometimes go to rather extreme lengths; their apparent unconcern and cruelty are but ways, known only to themselves, of feeling more strongly than others.
-- Marquis de Sade

#Change #Strength #Wisdom

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 #Giving

To judge from the notions expounded by theologians, one must conclude that God created most men simply with a view to crowding hell.
-- Marquis de Sade

#Men #Views #Judging

Happiness is ideal, it is the work of the imagination.
-- Marquis de Sade

#Happiness #Imagination

In order to know virtue, we must first acquaint ourselves with vice.
-- Marquis de Sade

#Order #Kinky #Literature

My manner of thinking, so you say, cannot be approved. Do you suppose I care? A poor fool indeed is he who adopts a manner of thinking for others!
-- Marquis de Sade

#Thinking #Care #Fool

The man who alters his way of thinking to suit others is a fool.
-- Marquis de Sade

#Thinking #Men #Fool

Lycurgus, Numa, Moses, Jesus Christ, Mohammed, all these great rogues, all these great thought-tyrants, knew how to associate the divinities they fabricated with their own boundless ambition.
-- Marquis de Sade

#Jesus #Ambition #Tyrants

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 #Glasses #Fire

Let not your zeal to share your principles entice you beyond your borders.
-- Marquis de Sade

#Peace #Principles #Borders

The reasoning man who scorns the prejudices of simpletons necessarily becomes the enemy of simpletons; he must expect as much, and laugh at the inevitable.
-- Marquis de Sade

#Men #Laughing #Enemy

It is certain that stealing nourishes courage, strength, skill, tact, in a word, all the virtues useful to a republican system and consequently to our own. Lay partiality aside, and answer me: is theft, whose effect is to distribute wealth more evenly, to be branded as a wrong in our day, under our government which aims at equality? Plainly, the answer is no.
-- Marquis de Sade

#Government #Skills #Answers

Destruction, hence, like creation, is one of Nature's mandates.
-- Marquis de Sade

#Nature #Reality #Creation

The primary and most beautiful of nature's qualities is motion
-- Marquis de Sade

#Beautiful #Quality