Quotes by : Marquis de Sade

Do the meager pleasures you have been able to enjoy during your fall compensate for the torments which....

No lover, if he be of good faith, and sincere, will deny he would prefer to see his mistress dead than....

...and above all, you should not think of writing as a way of earning your living. If you do, your work....

The imagination is the spur of delights... all depends upon it, it is the mainspring of everything; now,....

Happiness lies neither in vice nor in virtue; but in the manner we appreciate the one and the other,....

There is no more lively sensation than that of pain; its impressions are certain and dependable, they....

The imagination serves us only when the mind is absolutely free of any prejudice. A single prejudice....

But to declare his wishes only in some unknown corner of Asia, to choose the most double-dealing and....

Never lose sight of the fact that all human felicity lies in man's imagination, and that he cannot think....

Between understanding and faith immediate connections must subsist.