Top 51 Masochistic Quotes
#1. Self-mortification, far from producing liberation from material things, is far more likely to cause either an unhinged mind, delusions or a masochistic taste for more suffering, experienced, of course, as joy.
Idries Shah
#2. You could kill me, Alice, he looked at me seriously. That's how much you mean to me. As foolish and masochistic as that makes me, you are so much to me that even if it destroys me to be with you, I'll be with you!
Amanda Hocking
#3. The important thing is not to be masochistic. Women are so hard on themselves. Don't do that. No one is keeping score.
Simon Doonan
#4. There is no God and we are his inventors. Humanity designed him like some sinister masochistic architects. The infinite blueprint for our intellectual enslavement.
C.J. Anderson
#5. People think I take some sort of masochistic pleasure out of putting out music that's gonna be unpopular.
Billy Corgan
#6. I want to be stereotyped. I want to be classified. I want to be a clone. I want to be masochistic. I want to be sadistic. I want a Suburban Home. I don't want no hipppie pad; I want a house just like Mom and Dad.
Milo Aukerman
#7. Edward: So the lion fell in love with the lamb.
Bella:What a stupid lamb.
Edward:What a sick masochistic lion.
Stephanie Meyer
#8. I was many things. I was submissive. I was masochistic. I was trusting. I was a sexual slave. But obedient? Not as much.
C.D. Reiss
#9. And so the lion fell in love with the lamb ... " he murmured. I looked away, hiding my eyes as I thrilled to the word.
"What a stupid lamb," I sighed.
"What a sick, masochistic lion.
Stephenie Meyer
#10. I think I've still got a bit of a sado-masochistic streak in me, because if I'm not going to be restricted by corsets and covered in lace, then I still wind up wearing an ape-mask over my face. I do wonder how I get myself in these situations!
Helena Bonham Carter
#12. Sweetheart, insulting the spirits won't win them over. Most astrals aren't as masochistic as I am. - William Maddox
Jennifer DeLucy
#13. How much of the audience's fun was sacrificed in the effort to redefine the social parameters of the concert hall - it sounds almost masochistic of the upper crust, curtailing their own liveliness, but I guess they had their priorities. Although the quietest
David Byrne
#14. Of course, the hustler doesn't proclaim his trade to the outside world, for typically he has neither a masochistic urge to be put down nor the reactive hostility to majority opinion that one finds in the flamboyant homosexual or "professional Negro" or "professional Jew" and the like.
Ned Polsky
#15. All of my roles have had their own unique set of challenges, and I enjoy that in some perverse, masochistic way. I'm always dying though! Maybe I have some kind of fetish.
Jared Leto
#17. Everyone in a decadent society, Lorrain urges, is guilty. Everyone loves masking murder and everyone takes masochistic pleasure in the risk of discovery and punishment.
Jennifer Birkett
#18. I love sex ... It should be animalistic, it should be sadistic, it should at times be masochistic ... There are few rules and moral conventions.
Jayne Mansfield
#19. -- I'm wary of all morning people. There is something unsettling about a person who likes to leave the comforts of a warm bed and soft pillow. Absolutely masochistic.
K.T. Mara
#20. Whipping, caning, chains, restraints, the cat-o'-nine tails and many other devices beloved of the Marquis de Sade are employed in more extreme sado-masochistic relationships. A spanking, though, s every girl knows, is more about pleasure than pain.
Chloe Thurlow
#21. I can just imagine the recruiting poster. 'Ghost whisperers wanted: no experience necessary. Death wish and masochistic tendencies a must.
Mary Lindsey
#22. I feel like I am floating in plasma
I need a teacher or a lover
I need someone to risk being involved with me.
I am so vain
and I am so masochistic.
How can they coexist?
Francesca Woodman
#23. Acting is a masochistic form of exhibitionism. It is not quite the occupation of an adult.
Laurence Olivier
#24. But when I lose my temper, I find it difficult to forgive myself. I feel I've failed. I can be calm in a crisis, in the face of death or things that hurt badly. I don't get hysterical, which may be masochistic of me.
Emma Thompson
#26. I wasn't ready to leave. Some masochistic shred of my being didn't want to walk away from him yet, even though staying defied logic and common sense.
Pepper Winters
#27. Marie Calloway has a very specific literary personality that the reader is intrigued by: she's masochistic, loves to experiment, is quickly bored and intermittently self-hating, very hip, rebellious. Figuring her out is a gripping adventure.
Edmund White
#28. I started out in stand-up when I was 18, which is really masochistic, and I did it really till I started going in movies. I did it for about three years out in LA.
Debra Winger
#29. Every time I open the drawer, it's a trip down Memory Lane, which, if you don't turn off at the right exit, merges straight into the Masochistic Nostalgia Highway.
Sloane Crosley
#30. We as human beings are slightly masochistic. Everybody is ridden with insecurities and they manifest themselves in different ways, whether you're a pleaser, you're mean, you're super-duper sweet and get walked on, or you're a gossip that talks about someone else.
Kristen Bell
#31. This might sound masochistic or narcissistic, I don't know, but when I'm not playing the game, the validations I feel about life are always through the hardships. I relate more to sadness, in a lot of ways, when I'm not playing.
Abby Wambach
#32. Golfers have a tendency to be very masochistic. They like to punish themselves for some reason. A lot of them like tough courses.
Jack Nicklaus
#33. The thrill of terror is passive, masochistic, and implicitly feminine. It is imaginative submission to overwhelming superior force.
Camille Paglia
#34. Why do people even take photographs, anyway? They're just reminders of what once was and what you'll never get back. It's so masochistic.-Dom
Daria Snadowsky
#35. I admire when people take the harder path, not because they are masochistic and want to beat themselves up, but because you actually kind of learn more and I think you grow more.
Josh Hartnett
#36. It seems that it is only in the United States that an almost masochistic attack on the position of its own oil companies exists.
John J. McCloy
#37. For those with drive, wit, vision, ego and a masochistic outlook, there is always room.
K Callan
#38. She disinterred the wickedness in normality, cataloguing the ways conformity and repression tip into psychosis, persecution, and paranoia, into cruelty and its masochistic, injury-cherishing twin. Like
Shirley Jackson
#39. Acceptance doesn't mean masochistic pessimism, but joyful support of and participation in the great cosmic drama.
Nathan J. Johnson
#40. I'm not a masochistic reader. If something is just too dense or not enjoyable, even though I'm told it should be good for me, I'll put it down. That said, most of what I read would be considered high-end or good for you, I suppose. But, I also think that reading should be enjoyable.
Josh Radnor
#41. The mind, at times, takes masochistic delight in suffering.
Saurbh Katyal
#42. I love the masochistic aspect of eating seething, real Sichuan food in Sichuan Province.
Anthony Bourdain
#43. I poured myself another glass of wine (white, now warm and disgusting, but I was in a masochistic mood)
Linda Gillard
#44. I never took the bus. Never. Walking meant you were eccentric or pious or a loser - riding the bus meant you were insane or masochistic and worse than a loser.
Susan Straight
#45. The dentist swiveled on his heels and disappeared, leaving me there to massage my jaw back into feeling after its brief, masochistic marriage to the top of my wooden desk.
Jonathan Lethem
#46. If you scream, people say you're melodramatic; if you submit, you're masochistic; if you call names, you're a bitch. Hit him and he'll kill you. The best thing is to suffer mutely and yearn for a rescuer, but suppose a rescuer doesn't come?
Joanna Russ
#47. Poisonous people do not deserve your time. To think otherwise is masochistic.
Timothy Ferriss
#48. Any decent politician is masochistic enough to dream now and then of going down in flames while the angels sing.
Isaac Asimov
#49. To decide to film a movie again shot by shot, you must be masochistic to a certain degree because it is a much greater challenge.
Michael Haneke
#50. Along with our passivity, we're entering a profoundly masochistic phase everyone is a victim these days, of parents, doctors, pharmaceutical companies, even love itself. And how much we enjoy it. Our happiest moments are spent trying to think up new varieties of victimhood ...
J.G. Ballard
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