Top 100 Sade's Quotes: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Sade's

#1. Sade's stuff is real deceptive. She's got stuff about prostitutes, poverty and people on the streets.

#2. 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

#3. Once a song's out there, it's no longer mine. And that's the whole purpose of music: to belong to people.

Sade Adu

#4. The only way to a woman's heart is along the path of torment.

Marquis De Sade

#5. If God permits virtue to be persecuted on earth, it is not for us to question his intentions. It may be that his rewards are held over for another life, for is it not true as written in Holy Scripture that the Lord chastenenth only the righteous! And after all, is not virtue it's own reward?

Marquis De Sade

#6. There isn't a class structure in Nigeria; there's a tribal structure and prestige as far as money is concerned.

Sade Adu

#7. She closed her eyes; and in the sweet slumber lying
her spirit tiptoed from its lodging place.
It's folly to shrink in fear, if this is dying;
for death looked lovely in her face.

Francesco Petrarca

#8. Oh God Angel," he whispered. "There's only one monster here." ~Sade~

Lucian Bane

#9. 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.

Marquis De Sade

#10. I just aspire to pick people up. That's my ambition.

Sade Adu

#11. What could equal the bliss? / The thrill of the first kiss / It'll blow right to you / It's never as good as the first time.

Sade Adu

#12. 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

#13. I'm not shy or reclusive. I just spend my time with people rather than journalists.

Sade Adu

#14. 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

#15. Let not your zeal to share your principles entice you beyond your borders.

Marquis De Sade

#16. 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

#17. 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

#18. 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

#19. 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

#20. 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

#21. Truth titillates the imagination far less than fiction.

Marquis De Sade

#22. The completest submissiveness is your lot, and that is all;

Marquis De Sade

#23. God strung up his own son like a side of veal. I shudder to think what he would do to me.

Marquis De Sade

#24. 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

#25. 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

#26. 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

#27. Among the mutations that have affected the knowledge of things ... only one, which began a century and a half ago ... has allowed the figure of man to appear.

Michel Foucault

#28. 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

#29. Never lose sight of the fact that all human felicity lies in man's imagination, and that he cannot think to attain it unless he heeds all his caprices. The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries.

Marquis De Sade

#30. Do not breed. Nothing gives less pleasure than childbearing. Pregnancies are damaging to health, spoil the figure, wither the charms, and it's the cloud of uncertainty forever hanging over these events that darkens a husband's mood.

Marquis De Sade

#31. Hope 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 wounds and concentrate their attention on that area of it that is already lacerated.

Marquis De Sade

#32. 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

#33. Whatever I'm doing, I'm in that moment and I'm doing it. The rest of the world's lost. If I'm cooking some food or making soup, I want it to be lovely. If not, what's the point of doing it?

Sade Adu

#34. Don't have children: they deform women's bodies and turn into an enemy 20 years later.

Marquis De Sade

#35. Man's natural character is to imitate; that of the sensitive man is to resemble as closely as possible the person whom he loves. It is only by imitating the vices of others that I have earned my misfortunes.

Marquis De Sade

#36. For mortal men there is but one hell, and that is the folly and wickedness and spite of his fellows; but once his life is over, there's an end to it: his annihilation is final and entire, of him nothing survives.

Marquis De Sade

#37. Destruction, hence, like creation, is one of Nature's mandates.

Marquis De Sade

#38. The primary and most beautiful of Nature's qualities is motion, which agitates her at all times, but this motion is simply a perpetual consequence of crimes, she conserves it by means of crimes only.

Marquis De Sade

#39. London was a really multi-racial city ... It's incredible how comfortable people are with race there.

Sade Adu

#40. 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

#41. Lust's passion will be served; it demands, it militates, it tyrannizes.

Marquis De Sade

#42. Madame, I have become a whore through good-will and libertine through virtue.

Marquis De Sade

#43. I'm not anti-fashion, but I've always had a bit of a punk attitude. That's important, I think. I do my own thing.

Sade Adu

#44. I don't know what the heart is, not I: I only use the word to denote the mind's frailties.

Marquis De Sade

#45. One must do violence to the object of one's desire; when it surrenders, the pleasure is greater.

Marquis De Sade

#46. 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

#47. One must feel sorry for those who have strange tastes, but never insult them. Their wrong is Nature's too; they are no more responsible for having come into the world with tendencies unlike ours than are we for being born bandy-legged or well-proportioned.

Marquis De Sade

#48. Nothing quite encourages as does one's first unpunished crime.

Marquis De Sade

#49. I've already told you: the only way to a woman's heart is along the path of torment. I know none other as sure.

Marquis De Sade

#50. 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

#51. It's always better to act on your silly idea and watch what becomes it, than to do nothing with it and call your self silly.

Sade Fadipe

#52. The more defects a man may have, the older he is, the less lovable, the more resounding his success.

Marquis De Sade

#53. I think you only really feel like an outsider if you've been an insider.

Sade Adu

#54. One has always had too much when one has had enough

Marquis De Sade

#55. Conversation, like certain portions of the anatomy, always runs more smoothly when lubricated.

Marquis De Sade

#56. I love Whitney Houston, Stevie Wonder, Brandi, Sade, Nat King Cole. I like the Beatles. I listen to a lot of that.

Leah LaBelle

#57. 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

#58. To be a mother you must be strong. Even if you don't feel it, you have to pretend.

Sade Adu

#59. 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

#60. 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

#61. Either kill me or take me as I am, because I'll be damned if I ever change.

Marquis De Sade

#62. To me you were home, to you I was just a vacation.

Sade Andria Zabala

#63. 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

#64. 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

#65. It is only by way of pain one arrives at pleasure

Marquis De Sade

#66. I think actors should stay grounded and humble and open.

Tanc Sade

#67. 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

#68. One of my dream collaborations is to work with Sade. I would love to work with Andre 3000, Miguel.

Elle Varner

#69. Between understanding and faith immediate connections must subsist.

Marquis De Sade

#70. Sade pretty much summed up life in seven words: 'It's only love that gets you through.

Gregor Collins

#71. Happiness lies only in that which excites, and the only thing that excites is crime.

Marquis De Sade

#72. In an age that is utterly corrupt, the best policy is to do as others do.

Marquis De Sade

#73. Social order at the expense of liberty is hardly a bargain

Marquis De Sade

#74. 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

#75. Live your life to the fullest...you never know who is living vicariously through you!

Natalie Sade

#76. 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

#77. 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

#78. Crime is to the passions what nervous fluid is to life: it sustains them, it supplies their strength.

Marquis De Sade

#79. 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

#80. Sexual pleasure is, I agree, a passion to which all others are subordinate but in which they all unite.

Marquis De Sade

#81. 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

#82. When you tour, you regain the music and the connection with the audience.

Sade Adu

#83. 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

#84. Kill the part of you that believes it can't survive without someone else.

Sade Andria Zabala

#85. My strength is my distance. I can swim two-and-a-half soccer fields on one breath.

Tanc Sade

#86. Are wars anything but the means whereby a nation is nourished, whereby it is strengthened, whereby it is buttressed?

Marquis De Sade

#87. 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

#88. 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

#89. I envy
the cup of coffee
that gets
to kiss
your sleepy lips
awake
every cold and
bitter morning.

Sade Andria Zabala

#90. To lie is always a necessity for women; above all when they choose to deceive, falsehood becomes vital to them.

Marquis De Sade

#91. 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

#92. 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

#93. 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