A collection of quotations by Marquis de Sade on sadism, diplomacy, pleasure, pain, sex, atheism, God, lust, philosophy, sexuality, sensuality and religion.
70 Quotes By Marquis De Sade, The Notorious French Author
Donatien Alphonse Francois, Marquis de Sade was a French writer, philosopher, radical politician and aristocrat who was distinguished for his libertine sexuality. Sade was born in an aristocratic family and although he wrote many books during his lifetime, he was infamous for indulging in sexual acts that involved different forms of torture, bondage and bestiality that eventually got him imprisoned in 1778. His sexual deviance eventually gave rise to the word ‘Sadism’ in English which means ‘the tendency to derive pleasure, especially sexual gratification, from inflicting pain, suffering, or humiliation on others.’ Sade spent around two decades in prison and 12 years in a mental asylum; however it was during his time in prison that he wrote extensively. Most of his work dealt with erotica, sexual fantasies and pornography. Some of the well-known works produced by Sade include ‘Juliette’, ‘The 120 Days of Sodom’, ‘Justine’ and ‘Philosophy in the Bedroom’. Sade was condemned for blasphemy and his written work was also found to be indecent, which earned him another jail sentence. Sade was deeply controversial but remains an interesting character to this day. We have scanned through his works and writings to get Marquis de Sade's quotes. Here is a collection of Marquis de Sade' s quotes that will give you a glimpse into his warped mind.
What does one want when one is engaged in the sexual act? That everything around you give you its utter attention, think only of you, care only for you...every man wants to be a tyrant when he fornicates.
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.
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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
All universal moral principles are idle fancies.
Marquis de Sade
Your body is the church where Nature asks to be reverenced.
Social order at the expense of liberty is hardly a bargain
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The man who alters his way of thinking to suit others is a fool.
Marquis de Sade
Sex'' is as important as eating or drinking and we ought to allow the one appetite to be satisfied with as little restraint or false modesty as the other
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.
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Religions are the cradles of despotism.
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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.
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One must do violence to the object of one's desire; when it surrenders, the pleasure is greater.
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True happiness lies in the senses, and virtue gratifies none of them.
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Can we become other than what we are?
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Destruction, hence, like creation, is one of Nature's mandates.
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.
Happiness is an abstraction, it is a product of the imagination, it is a way of being moved, which depends entirely on our way of seeing and feeling.
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It is always by way of pain one arrives at pleasure.
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Nature has endowed each of us with a capacity for kindly feelings: let us not squander them on others.
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In order to know virtue, we must acquaint ourselves with vice. Only then can we know the true measure of a man.
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The completest submissiveness is your lot, and that is all;
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Were he supreme, were he mighty, were he just, were he good, this God you tell me about, would it be through enigmas and buffooneries he would wish to teach me to serve and know him?
Crime is to the passions what nervous fluid is to life: it sustains them, it supplies their strength.
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Truth titillates the imagination far less than fiction.
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The impossibility of outraging nature is the greatest anguish man can know.
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Fear not lest precautions and protective contrivances diminish your pleasure: mystery only adds thereto.
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The past encourages me, the present electrifies me, and I have little fear for the future; and my hope is that the rest of my life shall by far surpass the extravagances of my youth.
The law which attempts a man's life [capital punishment] is impractical, unjust, inadmissible. It has never repressed crime--for a second crime is every day committed at the foot of the scaffold.
One has always had too much when one has had enough
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The reasoning man who rejects the superstitions of simpletons necessarily becomes their enemy; he must expect as much and be prepared to laugh at the consequences.
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Oh! my friend, never seek to corrupt the person whom you love, it can go further than you think...
It has been estimated that more than 50 million individuals have lost their lives to wars and religious massacres. Is there even one among them worth the blood of a single bird?
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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.
It is only by sacrificing everything to sensual pleasure that this being known as Man, cast into the world in spite of himself, may succeed in sowing a few roses on the thorns of life.
This monster was outfitted with faculties so gigantic that even the broadest thoroughfares would still have appeared too narrow for him.
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Minä en epäröi koskaan valinnoissani ja koska olen aina varma, että löydän nautinnon siitä mitä teen, en koskaan katumalla turmele sen viehätystä.
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The greatest pleasures are born of conquered repugnancies.
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Those who are unhappy
clutch at shadows, and to
give themselves an enjoyment
that truth refuses them, they
artfully bring into being all
sorts of illusions.
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It has pleased Nature so to make us that we attain happiness only by way of pain.
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Only two things are required to accredit
an alleged miracle: a mountebank and a crowd of spineless lookers-on.
Marquis de Sade
...Madame, I have become a whore through good-will and libertine through virtue.
