Top 57 Quotes About Masochism
#2. If there wasn't a word for it, would we realize our masochism as much?
David Levithan
#3. Reality is always separate from the ideal; but in Trinidad this fantasy is a form of masochism and is infinitely more cheating than the fantasy which makes the poor delight in films about rich or makes the English singer use and American accent.
V.S. Naipaul
#4. Jogging, I believe they call it. It seems to be an epidemic psychological illness afflicting Americans these days. A form of masochism, like the flagellantes in the Middle Ages.
David Lodge
#5. it is a pleasure, a kind of mild masochism, to have all the beautiful things belong to someone you love and none to yourself.
Fletcher Flora
#6. Getting up once in the dark to go adventuring is a lark. Twice in two days smacks of masochism.
Diana Gabaldon
#8. Writing poetry is like always being in love. What masochism! What luxury!
Jennifer Stone
#9. Running through an unfamiliar forest filled with thorns is half an exercise in masochism, and half an obstacle course from the deepest reaches of Hell.
Seanan McGuire
#10. Hagen turned his back to her. Who could blame him? Why he hadn't dropped her yet she didn't know. Masochism maybe? Heroism? Maybe he wanted to save her. Maybe he was too embarrassed to admit he couldn't. And
Tiffany Reisz
#11. Perhaps that was his way of punishing himself. Masochism. People torture themselves more terribly than anyone else could.
Damon Suede
#12. We're programmed for suffering, not joy. The masochism is built in at a very early age. You're supposed to work and suffer - and the trouble is: you believe it.
Erica Jong
#13. Sexual deviance, sadism, masochism, homosexuality, coprophagy, coprolalia, voyeurism - the list was endless.
Paulo Coelho
#14. Lesbians, homosexuals, masochism, sadism are not perversions. Actually, there are only two perversions: hockey on grass and ballet on ice.
Faina Ranevskaya
#15. The student now goes to college to proclaim rather than to learn. A spirit of national masochism prevails, encouraged by an effete corps of impudent snobs who characterize themselves as intellectuals.
Spiro T. Agnew
#16. It amazes me to witness the masochism with which some journalists characterize their industry as a dying species. The future belongs to citizen journalism and blogs.
Mathias Dopfner
#17. The quality which makes man want to write and be read is essentially a desire for self-exposure and masochism. Like one of those guys who has a compulsion to take his thing out and show it on the street.
James Jones
#18. To suffer personally and directly due to the collective is not necessary, and is also a subtle form of masochism disguised as virtue.
Irma Kaye Sawyer
#20. There is probably an innate masochism in a lot of women that ends up disappointed if men don't ill-treat them.
Fay Weldon
#21. You can raise welts like nobody else, as we dance to the Masochism Tango.
Tom Lehrer
#22. Suicides are timid murderers. Masochism instead of Sadism.
Cesare Pavese
#23. How long an actress lives professionally depends on her stamina, the extent of her masochism, her imagination, and her yearning for recognition or approval.
Lauren Bacall
#24. I have always had the urge to open forbidden doors: with a curiosity and an obstinacy that verge on masochism.
Jeanne Moreau
#25. I enjoy doing very high mileages, partly out of masochism and also because I like to feel the shape of the landscape.
Will Self
#26. In good old Colonial Dunsboro, masochism is a valuable job skill. It is in most jobs.
Chuck Palahniuk
#27. For me, it's not about masochism to talk about death. For me, it's about observing life through death, from the last point of it.
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
#28. It was a kind of sado-masochism. I would take the things that were painful to me and elevate them and, through the mantra of music, make them into a release.
Michael Gira
#29. Nostalgia is masochism and masochism is something masochists love to share.
Andrei Codrescu
#30. It is interesting to note that in every phase of life feminine masochism finds some form of expression.
Helene Deutsch
#31. Kids piercing themselves, piercing their tongues, what kind of masochism is that? Is it to show you can just take it?
Clint Eastwood
#32. No, it was too much. The line between madness and masochism was already hazy; the time had come to pull back ... to retire, hunker down, back off and "cop out," as it were. Why not? in every gig like this, there comes a time to either cut your losses or consolidate your winnings - whichever fits.
Hunter S. Thompson
#33. When blended with sexuality, the death instinct is transformed into more harmless impulses expressed in sadism or masochism.
Erich Fromm
#34. At this point, I was afraid to find out the answers to those questions, but that wouldn't stop me from trying. Masochism was legit.
Santino Hassell
#35. Then why are you still here?" I ask. I stand up and her gun follows me. I welcome its bullets just to see if I could survive.
"Masochism."
"I don't know what that means."
"It means I like my own pain."
"That doesn't make sense."
"I'm human. You think we ever make sense?
Tessa Maurer
#36. Masochism seemed to make sense to me in terms of the struggle for self-consciousness of the slave in the struggle unto death.
'I feel like sex, I mean, giving myself, helps me. Giving my whole self to someone until I forget who I am helps me deal with my problems.
Tamara Faith Berger
#37. Who am I to deny my Master pleasure, simply because it is not at the hands of myself? He is free to do as he will, because of the life that he has given me. I am thankful for him, for the fact that out of all of us, I am the one that he chooses to keep and care for as his own.
Astrid Knowles
#38. 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
#39. 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
#40. I really believe," said Wanda thoughtfully,"that your madness is nothing but a demonic, unsatisfied sensuality. Our unnatural way of life must generate such illnesses. Were you less virtuous, you would be completely sane.
Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch
#41. 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
#42. I would let myself be taken until I was nothing more than his creation, a poetic body, the divine alternative to womankind.
Laura Elizabeth Woollett
#44. You're used to difficult women. To struggle. Perhaps you like it when they give you a bad time." "Every treasure is guarded by dragons. That's how you can tell it's valuable. ... Do you mind if I unbutton my collar? It seems to be pressing on an artery.
Saul Bellow
#45. 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
#46. Ana was a perpetual victim in a never-ending search for a victimizer.
Travis Luedke
#47. So," Wanda cried, "a woman in furs is nothing more than a large cat, a charged electric battery?
Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch
#48. For the first time she had dimly realized that only the hopeless are starkly sincere and that only the unhappy can either give or take sympathy
even some of the bitter and dangerous voluptuousness of misery.
Jean Rhys
#49. I have also fantasised myself to be his female slave, but this does not suffice, for after all every woman can be the slave of her husband.
Richard Von Krafft-Ebing
#50. The pain, I can assure you, will be exquisite.
Clive Barker
#51. The mind, at times, takes masochistic delight in suffering.
Saurbh Katyal
#52. And confessions of love have always seemed out of place when you're gasping for air, when you're begging for pain,
when you're missing something, unable to change the channel.
Kris Kidd
#53. The sadist desires to command and control. The masochist desires to be freed from the burdens of liberty. That is Socialism.
A.E. Samaan
#54. I'm not a notch on a belt."
"You could never be a notch, London Chantelle. You're the whole belt, sugar.
Elizabeth SaFleur
#55. She saw the shallow lines beaded with blood in her long mirror, and when he told her that she was beautiful, she believed him.
Astrid Knowles
#57. He wasn't fond of girls, especially curious ones; in his experience, they uually were demons in disguise.
Cameron Jace
