Marquis de Sade Quotes

Passion is all but soft, it's not tender, it's violence to which you get hooked by pleasure.

Lust is to the other passions what the nervous fluid is to life; it supports them all, lends strength to them all ambition, cruelty, avarice, revenge, are all founded on lust.

When I want a thing, I want it dreadfully.

Timing is irrelevant when it comes to desire.

Collecting is like sex; satisfaction renews and creates new appetites.

I can't go long without you either, Eva. You're an addiction...my obsession.

Lust indulged became habit, and habit unresisted became necessity.

desire is a beast that must be fed!

Power's a strange thing, lad. It's a drug people like me crave it.

Desire is poverty. Desire is the greatest impurity of the mind. Desire is the motive force for action. Desire in the mind is the real impurity. Even a spark of desire is a very great evil.

I wanted it so badly that there was no choice. It's like something in your blood that you have to do.

Jump out the window if you are the object of passion. Flee it if you feel it. Passion goes, boredom remains.

You're an addiction...my obsession.

Pussy power's pulling me down, down, down, down. When it's there and I can't have it, I get real real rabid.

I would eat my way into perdition to taste you.

Passionate love is a quenchless thirst.

Love and hunger rule the world. Ergo, to rule the world, one must master love and hunger.

I am the slave of those who hunger and thirst after me and treat everything else as unimportant.

Desire grows by what it feeds on.

When the heart craved something so forcefully, then reason became nothing but helpless observer.

Even as I approach the gambling hall, as soon as I hear, two rooms away, the jingle of money poured out on the table, I almost go into convulsions.

You know what it's like," said Storm, "when you want to--just--pour a woman into a glass and--just-drink her--just drink her down, one gulp, body and soul?

I’m addicted to your allure and I’m fiending for a cure.

First, she wanted to taste the sweat that shone on his throat and fragile clavicle; then he chose to undo the tails of her shirt, that she had tied up beneath her breasts; then, but then impatient they forgot about taking turns and quarreled silently, eagerly over each other, like pirates dividing treasure long sought, long imagined, long withheld.