Marquis de SadeCertain souls may seem harsh to others, but it is just a way, beknownst only to them, of caring and feeling more deeply.372Life
Marquis de SadeShe 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 bei… ▶351LoveReadingSadness
Marquis de SadeTruth titillates the imagination far less than fiction. ✨ marquis de Sade (1988). Juliette, Grove Press362SadnessTruth
Marquis de SadeIt is not my mode of thought that has caused my misfortunes, but the mode of thought of others.373Thought
Marquis de SadeHow 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 … ▶341PoliticsTime
Marquis de SadeBeauty 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 lubrici… ▶374Sadness
Marquis de SadeEvil is... a moral entity and not a created one, an eternal and not a perishable entity: it existed before the world; it constituted the monstrous, the execrable being who was als… ▶375HumanitySadness
Marquis de SadeThere 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… ▶331LifeSadness
Marquis de SadeIf 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. ✨ Sade (marquis de), Marquis de Sade (1987… ▶353Sadness
Marquis de SadeAre wars anything but the means whereby a nation is nourished, whereby it is strengthened, whereby it is buttressed?376Sadness
Marquis de SadeWhat is more immoral than war?354Sadness
Marquis de SadeThe more defects a man may have, the older he is, the less lovable, the more resounding his success.321Life
Marquis de SadeI assumed that everything must yield to me, that the entire universe had to flatter my whims, and that I had the right to satisfy them at will.365Reading
Marquis de SadeAll, all is theft, all is unceasing and rigorous competition in nature; the desire to make off with the substance of others is the foremost - the most legitimate - passion nature … ▶366Love
Marquis de SadeAre not laws dangerous which inhibit the passions? Compare the centuries of anarchy with those of the strongest legalism in any country you like and you will see that it is only w… ▶366LovePolitics
Marquis de SadeHappiness is ideal, it is the work of the imagination. ✨ Marquis de Sade (1993). The Crimes of Love: 3 Novellas, Bantam Classics311LoveReadingSadness
Marquis de SadeHappiness 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. ✨ marquis de Sade (1965… ▶355Sadness
Marquis de SadeThe 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… ▶301HumorSadness
Marquis de SadeChimerical 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 h… ▶378HopeHumanityPolitics
Marquis de SadeThere is a kind of pleasure which comes from sacrilege or the profanation of the objects offered us for worship. ✨ Sade (marquis de), Marquis de Sade (1987). The 120 days of… ▶301Sadness
Marquis de SadeWolves which batten upon lambs, lambs consumed by wolves, the strong who immolate the weak, the weak victims of the strong: there you have Nature, there you have her intentions, t… ▶302Sadness
Marquis de SadeI don't know what the heart is, not I: I only use the word to denote the mind's frailties. ✨ Marquis de Sade Philosophy in the Bedroom: An Erotic Novel, Library of Alexandri… ▶313LovePhilosophyReading
Marquis de SadeAny enjoyment is weakened when shared. ✨ Sade (marquis de), Marquis de Sade (1987). The 120 days of Sodom and other writings, Grove Pr379Sadness
Marquis de SadeThe horror of wedlock, the most appalling, the most loathsome of all the bonds humankind has devised for its own discomfort and degradation. ✨ marquis de Sade (1988). Juliet… ▶291HumanitySadness
Marquis de SadeWhat you call disorder is nothing else than one of the laws of the order you comprehend not and which you have erroneously named disorder because its effects, though good for Natu… ▶302PoliticsSadness
Marquis de SadeIn libertinage, nothing is frightful, because everything libertinage suggests is also a natural inspiration; the most extraordinary, the most bizarre acts, those which most arrant… ▶325HumanityPolitics
Marquis de SadeWhat I should like to find is a crime the effects of which would be perpetual, even when I myself do not act, so that there would not be a single moment of my life even when I wer… ▶292DeathLifeTime
Marquis de SadeHope is the most sensitive part of a poor wretch's soul; whoever raises it only to torment him is behaving like the executioners in Hell who, they say, incessantly renew old wound… ▶292HopeReadingSadness
Marquis de SadeSo 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 c… ▶281PhilosophyPoliticsReading
Marquis de SadeLycurgus, 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 boundle… ▶358PhilosophyReadingSadness
