Quotes By Marquis De Sade

The idea of God is the sole wrong for which I cannot forgive mankind.

My manner of thinking, so you say, cannot be approved. Do you suppose I care? A poor fool indeed is he who adopts a manner of thinking for others!

They declaim against the passions without bothering to think that it is from their flame philosophy lights its torch.

There is no more lively sensation than that of pain; its impressions are certain and dependable, they never deceive as may those of the pleasure women perpetually feign and almost never experience.

"Sex" is as important as eating or drinking and we ought to allow the one appetite to be satisfied with as little restraint or false modesty as the other.

Your body is the church where Nature asks to be reverenced.

Happiness lies neither in vice nor in virtue; but in the manner we appreciate the one and the other, and the choice we make pursuant to our individual organization.

Lust's passion will be served; it demands, it militates, it tyrannizes.

It is always by way of pain one arrives at pleasure.

It is not my mode of thought that has caused my misfortunes, but the mode of thought of others.

Destruction, hence, like creation, is one of Nature's mandates.

To judge from the notions expounded by theologians, one must conclude that God created most men simply with a view to crowding hell.