black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

There 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 never experience.

Marquis de Sade

Related Topics

Certain Deceive Dependable Impression Lively More Pain Sensation

Bagwalas

Popular Authors

Marilyn Monroe Paulo Coelho Abraham Lincoln C. S. Lewis Khalil Gibran Charlie Chaplin Gautama Buddha Isaac Newton

My manner of thinking stems straight from my considered reflections; it holds with my existence, with the way I am made. It is not in my power to alter it; and were it, I’d not do so.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Alter Consider Existence Made Manner Power Reflection Straightforward Think
Religions are the cradles of despotism.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Cradle Religion
Are your convictions so fragile that mine cannot stand in opposition to them? Is your God so illusory that the presence of my Devil reveals his insufficiency?
MARQUIS DE SADE

Conviction Devil Fragile God Illusory Opposition Presence Reveal Stand
There is no God, Nature sufficeth unto herself; in no wise hath she need of an author.
MARQUIS DE SADE

God Hath Herself Nature Need Sufficient Wise
Miserable creatures, thrown for a moment on the surface of this little pile of mud, is it decreed that one half of the flock should be the persecutor of the other? Is it for you, mankind, to pronounce on what is good and what is evil?
MARQUIS DE SADE

Creaturem Thrown Decreed Flock Half Mankind Miserable Moment Mud Pile Prosecutor Surface
For my system, which you disapprove of is also my greatest comfort in life, the source of all my happiness -it means more to me than my life itself.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Comfort Disapprove Greatest Happiness Life More Source System
There are thorns everywhere, but along the path of vice, roses bloom above them.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Along Bloom Everywhere Path Rose Thron Vice
In order to know virtue, we must first acquaint ourselves with vice.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Acquaint First Know Order Ourselves Virtue
The pleasure of the senses is always regulated in accordance with the imagination. Man can aspire to felicity only by serving all the whims of his imagination.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Accordance Always Imagination Pleasure Regulate Sense
How delicious to corrupt, to stifle all semblances of virtue and religion in that young heart!
MARQUIS DE SADE

Corrupt Delicious Heart Religion Semblance Stifie Virtue Young
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.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Attain Caprice Fact Felicity Heed Human Imagination Lie Lose Sight Think
Cruelty, very far from being a vice, is the first sentiment Nature injects in us all.
MARQUIS DE SADE

All Being Cruelty Farm Inject Nature Sentiment Vice
Sexual pleasure is, I agree, a passion to which all others are subordinate but in which they all unite.
MARQUIS DE SADE

Agree Other Pasion Pleasure Sexual Subordinate Unite
God strung up his own son like a side of veal. I shudder to think what he would do to me.
MARQUIS DE SADE

God Like Own Shudder Side Son Strung Thank Veal
Cruelty, very far from being a vice, is the first sentiment Nature injects in us all.
MARQUIS DE SADE

All Being Cruelty Far First Inject Nature Sentiment
What do I see there but a frail being forever unable to bring man to heel and force him to bend a knee. This creature, although emanated from him, dominates him, knows how to offend him and thereby merit torments eternally! What a weak fellow, this God!
MARQUIS DE SADE

Bend Creature Dominate Eternity Fellow Hel Man See Torment Unable Weak

Copyright: 2020 - 2023 | Minimalist Quotes