Sadists Quotes

“Sadists of Mlle Vinteuil's sort are creatures so purely sentimental, so naturally virtuous, that even sensual pleasure appears to them as something bad, the prerogative of the wicked. And when they allow themselves for a moment to enjoy it they endeavour to impersonate, to identify with, the wicked, and to make their partners do likewise, in order to gain the momentary illusion of having escaped beyond the control of their own gentle and scrupulous natures into the inhuman world of pleasure.”
― Marcel Proust, Swann’s Way

“Such a brute should underneath all his braggart tricks, his viciousness, his vileness, be a coward. But I am convinced that he was not. Because even cowardice requires a certain degree of sensitivity, and a certain value for life.”
― Warren Eyster, The Goblins of Eros

“Adam Smith's "Man of Systems" was, in other terms, a way of describing sadism in its original definition as practiced by the Marquis de Sade: a master manipulator lusting to play other humans like a fiddle.”
― A.E. Samaan

“If the baron is a masochist himself, then why would he attract another masochist? I suppose he wants someone cute to attract other sadists.”
― Edmund White, Our Young Man

“It’s not enough to have gotten rid of slavery in our own countries, we have to make sure that it never happens to another single human being anywhere.”
-Shenita Etwaroo”
― Shenita Etwaroo

“I think it’s odd that we find the torturing of animals to be a sign of major mental illness and a link between it and serial killers, but no one ever thinks of the indirect torture of eating animal flesh.”
-Shenita Etwaroo”
― Shenita Etwaroo

“The sadists and criminals cannot get the refuge outward, and nor inward. They are the penalty for themselves.”
― Ehsan Sehgal

“No happiness with sadists.”
― p s jagadeesh kumar