When blended with sexuality, the death instinct is transformed into more harmless impulses expressed in sadism or masochism. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
“She saw the shallow lines beaded with blood in her long mirror, and when he told her that she was beautiful, she… — Astrid Knowles Copy Share Image
It is interesting to note that in every phase of life feminine masochism finds some form of expression. — Helene Deutsch Copy Share Image
Nostalgia is masochism and masochism is something masochists love to share. — Andrei Codrescu Copy Share Image
You can raise welts like nobody else, as we dance to the Masochism Tango. — Tom Lehrer Copy Share Image
I ache for the touch of your lips dear, but much more for the touch of your whips dear. — Tom Lehrer Copy Share Image
In good old Colonial Dunsboro, masochism is a valuable job skill. It is in most jobs. — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
I have always had the urge to open forbidden doors: with a curiosity and an obstinacy that verge on masochism. — Jeanne Moreau Copy Share Image
“What will happen if I say yes?” “What you want. What you’ve probably always wanted.” Her eyes misted with a surprising vulnerability.… — Elizabeth SaFleur Copy Share Image
This might sound masochistic or narcissistic‚ I don't know‚ but when I'm not playing the game‚ the validations I feel about life… — Abby Wambach Copy Share Image
It amazes me to witness the masochism with which some journalists characterize their industry as a dying species. The future belongs to… — Mathias Dopfner Copy Share Image
“do not fall in love with your suffering, never presume that your suffering is in itself a proof of your authenticity. Renunciation… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The whole HTML validation exercise is questionable, but validating as XHTML is flat-out masochism. Only recommended for those that enjoy pain. Or… — Jeff Atwood Copy Share Image
“Running through an unfamiliar forest filled with thorns is half an exercise in masochism, and half an obstacle course from the deepest… — Seanan McGuire Copy Share Image
“Back then," he whispered, "I guess I was into masochism, because being there with you, so close when you were so untouchable,… — Lori Foster Copy Share Image
I wrote in Les Mots that "I have often thought against myself." That sentence has not been understood either. Critics have seen… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
To the "masculists" of both sexes, "femininity" implies all that men have built into the female image in the past few centuries:… — Elizabeth Gould Davis Copy Share Image
“Academic masochism reflects a metaphysical prejudice that the truth should be a hard-won treasure, that what is read or learnt easily must… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Bob Dylan seems to me a totally pernicious influence - the nasal whine of death and masochism. Certainly, this would be a… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image
As I see it, our revolutionary task is to destroy phallic identity in men and masochistic non-identity in women--that is, to destroy… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
“And when he ran the blades over her she felt light as a feather, floating happily into that place where pain and… — Astrid Knowles Copy Share Image
...the first thing you do at the end is reflect on the beginning. Maybe it's some form of reverse closure, or just… — Jonathan Tropper Copy Share Image
“Judging your early artistic efforts is artist abuse. This happens in any number of ways: beginning work is measured against the masterworks… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
Love, love, love – all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures, a… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
Writing poetry is like always being in love. What masochism! What luxury! — Jennifer Stone Copy Share Image
For me, it's not about masochism to talk about death. For me, it's about observing life through death, from the last point… — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
I enjoy doing very high mileages, partly out of masochism and also because I like to feel the shape of the landscape. — Will Self Copy Share Image
If there wasn't a word for it, would we realize our masochism as much? — David Levithan Copy Share Image
There is probably an innate masochism in a lot of women that ends up disappointed if men don't ill-treat them. — Fay Weldon Copy Share Image
The student now goes to college to proclaim rather than to learn. A spirit of national masochism prevails, encouraged by an effete… — Spiro T. Agnew Copy Share Image
“I have also fantasised myself to be his female slave, but this does not suffice, for after all every woman can be… — Richard Freiherr von Krafft-Ebing Copy Share Image
“The world enjoys suffering and pain. There's sadism in the way we look at these things, and masochism in our conclusion that… — Paulo Coelho's Copy Share Image
“It was a kind of sado-masochism. I would take the things that were painful to me and elevate them and, through the… — Michael Gira Copy Share Image
“Harley Quinn: Have you ever loved someone you knew was wrong for you? Someone who hurt you over and over again but… — Tom Taylor Copy Share Image
To the end, I will remain a child of Europe, of worry and of shame. I have no message of hope to… — Michel Houellebecq Copy Share Image
