The true comic muse is the one with tears running down under her laughing mask. — Leopold von Sacher-Masoch Copy Share Image
“The real comic muse is the one underwhose laughing mask tears roll down.” — Leopold von Sacher-Masoch Copy Share Image
You know how to paint pleasure, cruelty, arrogance in glowing colors. — Leopold von Sacher-Masoch Copy Share Image
Whoever allows himself to be whipped, deserves to be whipped. — 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
“All about us the earth steamed; mists rose up toward heaven like clouds of incense; a shattered rainbow still hovered in the… — Leopold von Sacher-Masoch Copy Share Image
Never feel safe with the woman you love, for a woman's nature conceals more dangers than you think. — Leopold von Sacher-Masoch Copy Share Image
“Woman's power lies in man's passion, and she knows how to use it, if man doesn't understand himself. He has only one… — Leopold von Sacher-Masoch Copy Share Image
“Dangerous forces lie within me. You awaken them, and not to your advantage. You know how to paint pleasure, cruelty, arrogance in… — Leopold von Sacher-Masoch Copy Share Image
A real apple is more beautiful than a painted one, and a live woman is more beautiful than a Venus of stone. — Leopold von Sacher-Masoch Copy Share Image
Venus in Furs has caught his soul in the red snares of hair. He will paint her, and go mad. — Leopold von Sacher-Masoch Copy Share Image
Pleasure alone makes existence worthwhile. A pleasure-seeker has a difficult time parting from life. — 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
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
Woman, as Nature has created her and as she is currently reared by man, is his enemy and can only be his… — 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
People who want to live like Olympian gods must have slaves whom they throw into their fishponds and gladiators who fight during… — 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,… — Leopold von Sacher-Masoch Copy Share Image
Cats exercise... a magic influence upon highly developed men of intellect. This is why these long-tailed Graces of the animal kingdom, these… — 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
“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
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
“He simply painted the portrait of some aristocratic Mesalina, and was tactful enough to let Cupid hold the mirror in which she… — 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
“She had wrapped her marble-like body in a huge fur, and rolled herself up trembling like a cat.” — 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
There is no describing the feeling of being mistreated by a successful rival in front of the woman you worship. — 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 Image
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 Image
Whoever allows himself to be whipped, deserves to be whipped. — Leopold von Sacher-Masoch Copy Share Image
“The real comic muse is the one underwhose laughing mask tears roll down.” — Leopold von Sacher-Masoch Copy Share Image
Be then my slave, and know what it means to be delivered into the hands of a woman. — Leopold von Sacher-Masoch Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
