Top 100 Quotes About Sade
#1. Sade pretty much summed up life in seven words: 'It's only love that gets you through.
Gregor Collins
#2. One of my dream collaborations is to work with Sade. I would love to work with Andre 3000, Miguel.
Elle Varner
#3. Capitalism, gaudy and greedy, has been inherent in western aesthetics from ancient Egypt on. It is the mysticism and glamour of things , which take on a personality of their own. As an economic system, it is in the Darwinian line of Sade, not Rousseau.
Camille Paglia
#4. I love Whitney Houston, Stevie Wonder, Brandi, Sade, Nat King Cole. I like the Beatles. I listen to a lot of that.
Leah LaBelle
#5. My favorite artists always documented emotion. Marvin Gaye and Al Green and Sade and Aaliyah.
Drake
#7. When I started writing
I was a sick teenaged
fuck inside who partly
thought I was the new
Marquis de Sade, a body
doomed to communicate
with Satan who was us-
ing my sickness as his
home away from home,
and there's your proof.
Dennis Cooper
#8. I love Barbra Streisand and Sade who've both had careers in soul and I want my music to have that timeless quality that isn't necessarily now.
Jessie Ware
#9. Whatever you think of de Sade, he was a complex figure and we should not look for easy answers with him. He was, strangely perhaps, against the death penalty, and he was never put in prison for murders or anything like that.
Philip Kaufman
#10. I despise Wednesdays! They are the Marquis de Sade of the work week. Wednesday are so awful that...wait..what? It's Thurs? (face-palm)
L.G.A. McIntyre
#11. Whether or not it is dangerous to read Sade is a question that easily becomes lost in a multitude of others and has never been settled except by those whose arguments are rooted in the conviction that reading leads to trouble. So it does; so it must, for reading leads nowhere but to questions.
Richard Seaver
#12. For Sade, man's emancipation is consummated in these strongholds of
debauchery where a kind of bureaucracy of vice rules over the life and death of the men and women who
have committed themselves forever to the hell of their desires.
Albert Camus
#13. Julian was the son of Diokles of Sparta, also known as Diokles the Butcher. That man made the Marquis de Sade look like Ronald McDonald. (Ben)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#14. Bardot, Byron, Hitler, Hemingway, Monroe, Sade: we do not require our heroes to be subtle, just to be big. Then we can depend on someone to make them subtle.
D. J. Enright
#15. I like how strong Sade is and how she doesn't give away too much.
Jessie Ware
#16. Oh God Angel," he whispered. "There's only one monster here." ~Sade~
Lucian Bane
#17. Relentlessly savage, 'The Passion' plays like the 'Gospel according to the Marquis de Sade'
David Ansen
#18. Is it true that in Petersburg you belonged to some secret society of bestial sensualists? Is it true that you could give lessons to the Marquis De Sade?
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#19. Sade's stuff is real deceptive. She's got stuff about prostitutes, poverty and people on the streets.
Lucinda Williams
#20. Once I was in my last year of law school, I started doing plays, as I said, without taking the bar. And I got hooked. I did a play called 'Marat/Sade', and I never had so much fun in my life.
William Sanderson
#21. I didn't hit her, man, what happened was that Maria was obsessed with the Marquis de Sade and wanted to try the spanking thing," said Luscious Skin.
"That's very Maria," said Pancho. "She takes her reading seriously.
Roberto Bolano
#22. I have been influenced by the greatest artists in jazz, pop, reggae, traditional, ballards, pop, and all types of music, taking the best from each to represent my own personality. Whitney Houston, George Michaels, Sade, Phil Collins, and many others have influenced me.
Laura Pausini
#23. And your fear boils my fu*king blood Angel, makes me fu*king hungry, do you know that? ~Sade~
Lucian Bane
#24. It's ludicrous to even talk about (Marquis) de Sade, let alone indulge in all that, when people are being tortured and suffering for real, not for sexual games. I have no interest either in being a victim or in turning others into victims.
Francoise Gilot
#25. A perversion must be baptized and patronized (the Marquis De Sade and Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch were on to something).
Philippe Lejeune
#26. I didn't find this memoir of these two eccentric people so different from doing my memoirs of De Sade or Simone Weil. My parents in their own way are as odd as Sade.
Francine Du Plessix Gray
#28. A character is never the author who created him. It is quite likely, however, that an author may be all his characters simultaneously.
Albert Camus - As quoted in Albert Camus : The Invincible Summer (1958) by Albert Maquet, p. 86; a remark made about the Marquis de Sade.
Albert Camus
#29. After Sade, violence, life and death, desire, and sexuality will extend, below the level of representation, an immense expanse of darkness, which we are now attempting to recover ... in our discourse, in our freedom, in our thought.
Michel Foucault
#30. My books - I kid you not - are very often shelved between DeLillo and de Sade. Which not only completely cracks me up, but it seems like an encouraging message from the universe: between those two, there's a lot of wiggle room. I feel just fine there.
Stacey D'Erasmo
#31. The fact is there hasn't been a thrilling new erogenous zone discovered since de Sade.
George Gilder
#32. The fact is, that what de Sade was trying to bring to the surface of the conscious mind was precisely the thing that revolted that mind ... From the very first he set before the consciousness things which it could not tolerate.
Georges Bataille
#33. Broken or whole... you're all mine. You... are all mine! ~Sade~
Lucian Bane
#34. It was rightly said of Sade that his is the work of a moralist. Erotic books are almost all alike in this respect: either they are working toward the elaboration of a revolutionary morality, or they echo the morality of their age, against which they are protesting.
Andre Pieyre De Mandiargues
#35. The socialized state is to justice, order, and freedom what the Marquis de Sade is to love.
William F. Buckley Jr.
#36. De Sade is the one completely consistent and thoroughgoing revolutionary of history.
Aldous Huxley
#37. Through Sade and Goya, the Western world received the possibility of transcending its reason in violence ...
Michel Foucault
#38. I like Sade. I'm re-reading Juliette. I skip the philosophy and read the salacious bits. His descriptive imagination is incredible.
Michael Gira
#39. I'm listening to so much. I looooove Alicia Keys' song, "Unthinkable." I'm blasting that all over the place, but I'm also listening to Sade, and I always have my Heavy Metal, Mastodon.
Jada Pinkett Smith
#40. She always had her eyes set on the light. But Sade couldn't take his off of the darkness, because the second he did, it would devour him, and then her.
Lucian Bane
#41. The French Revolution gave birth to no artists but only to a great journalist, Desmoulins, and to an under-the-counter writer, Sade. The only poet of the times was the guillotine.
Albert Camus
#43. 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
#45. He's not getting out of here again ... But you don't have to go all Marquis de Sade on him either. Just kill him or let me.
Rachel Caine
#46. I suggest somewhere that anyone who wishes to write and has no aptitude for it would be better off making shoes for ladies and boots for men.
Marquis De Sade
#47. Live your life to the fullest...you never know who is living vicariously through you!
Natalie Sade
#48. 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
#49. Social order at the expense of liberty is hardly a bargain
Marquis De Sade
#50. In an age that is utterly corrupt, the best policy is to do as others do.
Marquis De Sade
#51. Happiness lies only in that which excites, and the only thing that excites is crime.
Marquis De Sade
#52. Between understanding and faith immediate connections must subsist.
Marquis De Sade
#53. I no longer believe
in fairytale endings since
I stopped kissing boys
with mouthfuls of disappointment and
started treating my body like
a burning building
so nobody can get close enough
to get inside of me.
Sade Andria Zabala
#54. I think actors should stay grounded and humble and open.
Tanc Sade
#55. The more defects a man may have, the older he is, the less lovable, the more resounding his success.
Marquis De Sade
#56. And above all, you should not think of writing as a way of earning your living. If you do, your work will smell of your poverty. It will be colored by your weakness and be as thin as your hunger. There are other trades which you can take up: make boots, not books.
Marquis De Sade
#58. Either kill me or take me as I am, because I'll be damned if I ever change.
Marquis De Sade
#59. Coming from Australia and playing rugby, you just think that soccer is a bit soft, but I'll tell you what, it's not. It's rough as guts.
Tanc Sade
#60. From being at art college, I've always hated people that have the gall to think that they're being incredibly different when they're doing something in a very acceptable way, something safe that they've seen someone else doing.
Sade Adu
#61. To be a mother you must be strong. Even if you don't feel it, you have to pretend.
Sade Adu
#62. Anything beyond the limits and grasp of the human mind is either illusion or futility; and because your god having to be one or the other of the two, in the first instance I should be mad to believe in him, and in the second a fool.
Marquis De Sade
#63. Conversation, like certain portions of the anatomy, always runs more smoothly when lubricated.
Marquis De Sade
#65. I think you only really feel like an outsider if you've been an insider.
Sade Adu
#67. Nature has not got two voices, you know, one of them condemning all day what the other commands.
Marquis De Sade
#68. If you're only making an album every 10 years, it better be good.
Sade Adu
#69. Acting has always been my passion. It's always been my love, and I've always done it, since I was a kid.
Tanc Sade
#70. 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.
Marquis De Sade
#71. I always see myself as much more of a musician than a celebrity.
Sade Adu
#72. He, being hacked and cut for three solid quarters of an hour by the vigorous hands that had taken charge of his education, was soon nothing but a single wound, from which blood spurted out on all sides.
Marquis De Sade
#73. Get it into your head once and for all, my simple and very fainthearted fellow, that what fools call humanness is nothing but a weakness born of fear and egoism; that this chimerical virtue, enslaving only weak men, is unknown to those whose character is formed by stoicism, courage, and philosophy.
Marquis De Sade
#74. To lie is always a necessity for women; above all when they choose to deceive, falsehood becomes vital to them.
Marquis De Sade
#75. Do the meager pleasures you have been able to enjoy during your fall compensate for the torments which now rend your heart? Happiness therefore lies only in virtue,my child, and all the sophistries of its detractors can never procure a single one of its delights.
Marquis De Sade
#76. Are wars anything but the means whereby a nation is nourished, whereby it is strengthened, whereby it is buttressed?
Marquis De Sade
#77. My strength is my distance. I can swim two-and-a-half soccer fields on one breath.
Tanc Sade
#78. Kill the part of you that believes it can't survive without someone else.
Sade Andria Zabala
#79. When you tour, you regain the music and the connection with the audience.
Sade Adu
#80. Imperious, angry, furious, extreme in all things, with a disturbance in the moral imagination unlike any the world has ever known - there you have me in a nutshell: and one more thing, kill me or take me as I am, for I will not change
Marquis De Sade
#81. Sexual pleasure is, I agree, a passion to which all others are subordinate but in which they all unite.
Marquis De Sade
#82. Crime is to the passions what nervous fluid is to life: it sustains them, it supplies their strength.
Marquis De Sade
#83. I envy
the cup of coffee
that gets
to kiss
your sleepy lips
awake
every cold and
bitter morning.
Sade Andria Zabala
#84. It is not the opinions or the vices of private individuals that are harmful to the State, but rather the behavior of public figures.
Marquis De Sade
#85. 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
#86. God strung up his own son like a side of veal. I shudder to think what he would do to me.
Marquis De Sade
#87. The completest submissiveness is your lot, and that is all;
Marquis De Sade
#88. Truth titillates the imagination far less than fiction.
Marquis De Sade
#89. Happiness lies neither in vice nor in virtue; but in the manner we appreciate the one and the other, and the choice we make pursuant to our individual organization.
Marquis De Sade
#90. 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
#91. 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
#92. Crime is the soul of lust. What would pleasure be if it were not accompanied by crime? It is not the object of debauchery that excites us, rather the idea of evil.
Marquis De Sade
#93. Let not your zeal to share your principles entice you beyond your borders.
Marquis De Sade
#94. The 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
#95. I'm not shy or reclusive. I just spend my time with people rather than journalists.
Sade Adu
#96. I write what I see, the endless procession to the guillotine. Were all lined up, waiting for the crunch of the blade ... the rivers of blood are flowing beneath our feet ... Ive been to hell, young man, youve only read about it.
Marquis De Sade
#97. 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.
Marquis De Sade
#99. 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?
Marquis De Sade
#100. Why do you complain of your fate when you could so easily change it?
Marquis De Sade
