Love knows no virtue, no merit; it loves and forgives and tolerates everything because it must. We are not guided by reason... — Leopold von Sacher-Masoch Copy Share Image
You modern men, you children of reason, cannot begin to appreciate love as pure bliss and divine serenity. — Leopold von Sacher-Masoch Copy Share Image
Every man--I know this--turns weak, pliant, ridiculous as soon as he's in love. — Leopold von Sacher-Masoch Copy Share Image
“You of the North in general take love too soberly and seriously. You talk of duties where there should be only a… — Leopold von Sacher-Masoch Copy Share Image
Every woman has the instinct, the propensity to profit from her charms, and there's a lot to be said for giving oneself… — Leopold von Sacher-Masoch Copy Share Image
“Love knows no virtue, no profit; it loves and forgives and suffers everything, because it must” — Leopold von Sacher-Masoch Copy Share Image
You cannot deny that love lasts for only a brief moment, uniting two beings as a single being that is capable of… — Leopold von Sacher-Masoch Copy Share Image
“You look at love, and especially woman, as something hostile, something against which you put up a defense, even if unsuccessfully. You… — Leopold von Sacher-Masoch Copy Share Image
If I can't enjoy the full and total happiness of love, then I want to drain its torments, its tortures to the… — Leopold von Sacher-Masoch Copy Share Image
Alas, woman is faithful as long as she loves, but you demand that she be faithful without love and give herself without… — Leopold von Sacher-Masoch Copy Share Image
I love her passionately with a morbid intensity; madly as one can only love a woman who never responds to our love… — Leopold von Sacher-Masoch Copy Share Image
“You are cold, while you yourself fan flames. By all means wrap yourself in your despotic furs, there is no one to… — Leopold von Sacher-Masoch Copy Share Image
Once I no longer exist as I am, out of what consideration then should I forgo anything? Should I belong to a… — Leopold von Sacher-Masoch Copy Share Image
I imagine that the goddess of Love has come down from Olympus to visit a mortal. So as not to die of… — Leopold von Sacher-Masoch Copy Share Image
“I can easily imagine belonging to one man for my entire life, but he would have to be a whole man, a… — Leopold von Sacher-Masoch Copy Share Image
My husband's personality was filled with serenity and sunlight. Not even the incurable illness which fell upon him soon after our marriage… — Leopold von Sacher-Masoch Copy Share Image
Nature admits of no permanence in the relation between man and woman. It is only man's egoism that wants to keep woman… — Leopold von Sacher-Masoch Copy Share Image
Love knows no virtue, no profit; it loves and forgives and suffers everything, because it must. It is not our judgment that… — Leopold von Sacher-Masoch Copy Share Image
“That love, which is the highest joy, which is divine simplicity itself, is not for you moderns, you children of reflection. It… — Leopold von Sacher-Masoch Copy Share Image
“... that eternally restless, eternally unquenched desire for naked paganism, that love that is the supreme joy, that is divine serenity itself-… — Leopold von Sacher-Masoch Copy Share Image
It is merely the egoism of the man, who wants to bury a woman like a treasure. All attempts at using vows, contracts, and… — Leopold von Sacher-Masoch Copy Share
Every woman has the instinct, the propensity to profit from her charms, and there's a lot to be said for giving oneself without love,… — Leopold von Sacher-Masoch Copy Share
“The real comic muse is the one underwhose laughing mask tears roll down.” — Leopold von Sacher-Masoch Copy Share
Be then my slave, and know what it means to be delivered into the hands of a woman. — Leopold von Sacher-Masoch Copy Share
Man is the one who desires, woman the one who is desired. This is woman's entire but decisive advantage. Through man's passions, nature has… — Leopold von Sacher-Masoch Copy Share
I saw sensuality as sacred, indeed the only sacredness, I saw woman and her beauty as divine since her calling is the most important… — Leopold von Sacher-Masoch Copy Share
“Yes, I am cruel—since you take so much delight in that word-and am I not entitled to be so? Man is the one who… — Leopold von Sacher-Masoch Copy Share
“Place thy foot upon thy slave, Oh thou, half of hell, half of dreams; Among the shadows, dark and grave, Thy extended body softly… — Leopold von Sacher-Masoch Copy Share
“All about us the earth steamed; mists rose up toward heaven like clouds of incense; a shattered rainbow still hovered in the air.” — Leopold von Sacher-Masoch Copy Share
“Why not?" she said, "and take note of what I am about to say to you. Never feel secure with the woman you love,… — Leopold von Sacher-Masoch Copy Share
People who want to live like Olympian gods must have slaves whom they throw into their fishponds and gladiators who fight during their masters… — Leopold von Sacher-Masoch Copy Share
Cats exercise... a magic influence upon highly developed men of intellect. This is why these long-tailed Graces of the animal kingdom, these adorable, scintillating… — Leopold von Sacher-Masoch Copy Share
The true comic muse is the one with tears running down under her laughing mask. — Leopold von Sacher-Masoch Copy Share
“The individual who rebels against the arrangements of society is ostracized, branded, stoned. So be it. I am willing to take the risk; my… — Leopold von Sacher-Masoch Copy Share
