All Leopold von Sacher-Masoch Quotes
- You are cold, while you yourself fan flames. Cold
- The struggle of the spirit against the senses is the gospel of modern man. I do not wish to have any part in it. Any
- You modern men, you children of reason, cannot begin to appreciate love as pure bliss and divine serenity. Appreciate
- The true comic muse is the one with tears running down under her laughing mask. Comic
- Every man--I know this--turns weak, pliant, ridiculous as soon as he's in love. Every Man
- The person who doesn't know how to subjugate will all too quickly feel the other's foot on the nape of his neck. All
- I saw sensuality as sacred, indeed the only sacredness, I saw woman and her beauty as divine since her calling is the most important task… Abuse
- If I can't enjoy the full and total happiness of love, then I want to drain its torments, its tortures to the dregs; then I… Betray
- Never feel safe with the woman you love, for a woman's nature conceals more dangers than you think. Conceals
- Despite all the progress of civilization, women have remained exactly as they emerged from the hand of Nature. All
- A real apple is more beautiful than a painted one, and a live woman is more beautiful than a Venus of stone. Apple
- 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 electric… Adorable
- You know how to paint pleasure, cruelty, arrogance in glowing colors. Arrogance
- My husband's personality was filled with serenity and sunlight. Not even the incurable illness which fell upon him soon after our marriage could long cloud… Added
- Oh, you are the kind of man who will corrupt a woman to her very last fiber. Corrupt
- Nature admits of no permanence in the relation between man and woman. It is only man's egoism that wants to keep woman like some buried… Admits
- Love knows no virtue, no merit; it loves and forgives and tolerates everything because it must. We are not guided by reason... Forgives
- Now her eyes meet mine like green lightning-they are green, these eyes of hers, whose power is so indescribable-green, but as are precious stones, or… Deep
- Why become well-versed in science and the arts if not to impress a lovely little woman? Art
- Desire followed the glance, pleasure followed desire Desire
- So,” Wanda cried, “a woman in furs is nothing more than a large cat, a charged electric battery? Batteries
- I imagine that the goddess of Love has come down from Olympus to visit a mortal. So as not to die of cold in this… Beautiful
- Watch out, I have a large, very large fur, with which I could cover you up entirely, and I have a mind to catch you… Catch
- You have a curious way of arousing one's imagination, stimulating all one's nerves, and making one's pulses beat faster. You put an aureole on vice,… All
- Love knows no virtue, no profit; it loves and forgives and suffers everything, because it must. It is not our judgment that leads us; it… Abandon