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
“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
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
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
“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
“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
...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
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
“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
“Getting up once in the dark to go adventuring is a lark. Twice in two days smacks of masochism.” — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
“You mean you are now my slave without illusions, and for that reason you shall feel the weight of my foot without… — Leopold von Sacher-Masoch Copy Share Image
“I would let myself be taken until I was nothing more than his creation, a poetic body, the divine alternative to womankind.” — Laura Elizabeth Woollett Copy Share Image
You can raise welts like nobody else, as we dance to the Masochism Tango. — Tom Lehrer Copy Share Image
Writing poetry is like always being in love. What masochism! What luxury! — Jennifer Stone 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
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
“BDSM stands for Bondage and Discipline, Dominance and Submission, and Sadism and Masochism. Yeah, it should really be BDDSSM, but BDSM looks… — Page Turner Copy Share Image
“I really believe," said Wanda thoughtfully,"that your madness is nothing but a demonic, unsatisfied sensuality. Our unnatural way of life must generate… — Leopold von Sacher-Masoch Copy Share Image
“Everyone in a decadent society, Lorrain urges, is guilty. Everyone loves masking murder and everyone takes masochistic pleasure in the risk of… — Jennifer Birkett Copy Share Image
What women will say to other women grumbling in their kitchens and complaining and gossiping or what they make clear in their… — Doris Lessing 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
Kindness is about energy we give and take from all creatures. The bottom line is the integrative interaction and the total interconnectedness… — Jean Maalouf Copy Share Image
I dont know that I want to act 15 years from now. I mean, I love the process of acting, but not… — Emma Caulfield Copy Share Image
“I know a person who, though no poet, composed some verses in a very short time, which were full of feeling and… — Santa Teresa de Jesús 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
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
“Every November of my boyhood, we put on red poppies and attended highly patriotic services in remembrance of those who had 'given'… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“One of the questions asked by al-Balkhi, and often repeated to this day, is this: Why do the children of Israel continue… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
