Random Quotes
The practice of putting women on pedestals began to die out when it was discovered that they could give orders better from there. -- Betty Grable
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you've imagined. -- Henry David Thoreau
There is a chain that binds U/us,
Me to him and him to me,
An end holds the collar, my hand holds an end,
If I tug, he'll feel the pull,
But if he tugs, I'll feel it too...
Tagged: fear
'Come to the edge', he said.
They said, 'We are afraid'.
'Come to the edge', he said.
They came.
He pushed them...
And they flew. -- Guillaume Apollinaire
Sticks and stones may break my bones but whips and chains excite me. -- Anonymous
Tagged: power exchange, Dom Space, transcendence
This notion is at least one explanation of what we call the power exchange. It is also the reason that so many of us feel the sharp focus of illumination as we come away from a successful scene. DomSpace is less physical than the experience of subspace and considerably subtler, but it is every bit as powerful as the experience of subspace. So, what we are after in this exceptional act of passion and cruelty we call a scene is that oneness, that transcendence which is the same goal as religion, which is the same goal as vanilla sex. -- Rick Umbaugh
Tagged: love, sensation, masochist
The Masochist desires to experience stronger sensations, but desires that it should be inflicted with Love. The Sadist desires to inflict stronger sensations, but desires that it should be felt as Love. -- Unknown
To love women and never enjoy them, is as much to love wine and never taste it. -- John Lyly
Free of her lips, free of her hips. -- English Proverb
Tagged: dream, mysterious
A man doesn't dream about a woman because he thinks her "mysterious"; he decides that she is "mysterious" to justify his dreaming of her. -- Henri de Montherlant
I ask for so little. Just fear me, love me, do as I say and I will be your slave. -- From the movie Labryinth -- David Bowie
Tagged: confidence, knowledge, awareness
Know who and what you are and be confident in that. -- yourdesireismine
Tagged: sex, art, erotic, philosophical
BSDM is an erotic art which does not require conventional sex acts to explore and practice. That's my philosophical story, and I'm stickin' to it. -- Elizabeth
You have to get past the pleasure stage, until you reach the stage of tears. -- Pauline Reage
Tagged: life
Ordinary life does not interest me. I seek only the high moments. I am in accord with the surrealists, searching for the marvelous. -- Anais Nin
The great object of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even though in pain. -- Lord Byron
If loving you makes a slave of me, then I'll spend my whole life in chains. -- Sophie B. Hawkins
Tagged: surrender
Self-conquest is really self-surrender. Yet before we can surrender ourselves we must become ourselves. For no one can give up what he does not possess. -- Thomas Merton
Tagged: submission
Submission is not about being used, submission is about being of use. submission is not about what is done to you, submission is about what you do for others " "Strong men simply need women. This will never be understood by weak men. A strong man needs a woman at his feet, who is truly his. Anything else is less than his fulfillment. -- Unknown
It is certainly no crime to depict the bizarre ideas that nature inspires. -- Marquis De Sade
The flesh is aye fairest that's farthest from the bone. -- Scottish Proverb
Tagged: woman, man, clothes, fantasies
What a man enjoys about a woman's clothes are his fantasies of how she would look without them. -- Brendan Francis
Tagged: submission, permission, right
You are no one's slave, dog, slut, or sub until you give them that right. Only you can give it. No one can take or assume it without your permission. -- Jack Rinella
A 'working' bottom--one who is actively putting the Top's 'work' to joyful use--has liberty where he or she imagined limits. -- Joseph W. Bean
Tagged: slavery, service, serve
The wonder of being a slave, as you put it, isn't that we serve when it suits us but rather that we serve always. -- Unknown
Sometimes your nearness takes my breath away; and all the things I want to say can find no voice. Then, in silence, I can only hope my eyes will speak my heart. -- Robert Sexton
Tagged: d/s
For me, D/s is a graded endeavor. There are definitive levels of achievement. There is an unacceptable level of performance. Effort is not enough to make the grade. -- Sir C
Tagged: kissing
What is this thing called a kiss? French, tongue, soul, chaste, motherly, fatherly, brotherly, sisterly, ass, genital, Judas, trembling, rough, hesitant, sweet, soft, wet, dying, fevered, good-night, farewell, burning, and chocolate. -- Gilbert Sorrentino
Ultimately, the purpose of a flogging is to inflict pleasure. -- Mitch Kessler
Tagged: sex
I don't know what I am, darling. I've tried several varieties of sex. The conventional position makes me claustrophobic. And the others give me either stiff neck or lockjaw. -- Tallulah Bankhead
Tea! thou soft, thou sober, sage, and venerable liquid,... thou female tongue-running, smile-smoothing, heart-opening, wind-tippling cordial, to whose glorious insipidity I owe the happiest moment of my life, let me fall prostrate. -- ~Colley Cibber, Lady's Last Stake
True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new. -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
That which yields is not always weak. -- Jacqueline Carey
Tagged: ritual, fear, pain, lust
There are rituals of lust and joy and pain and fear. These, forced to extremes, meld in the mind, and in that melding they may make or dissolve our egos, bodies, or spirits. -- Raven Greywalker (Lilith)
Tagged: woman, man, dirty talk
When a man talks dirty to a woman, it's sexual harassment. When a woman talks dirty to a man, it's $3.95 a minute. -- Unknown
Tagged: edge, explanation
The Edge... there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over. -- Hunter S. Thompson
As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Tagged: pain, understanding
And he said, 'Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that its heart may stand in the sun, so must you know pain. -- Khalil Gibran
Tagged: submission, power, humility
Submission can actually engender power: realizing that you have something to give, and that you are capable of mastering your own will to give it up the way your top wants it instead of the way you think S/He should want it, can inspire pride: not the false pride of an inflated ego, but the true pride that, like humility, comes from knowing the depths of your self. -- William Henkin
Tagged: romance, first love
Men always want to be a woman's first love. That is their clumsy vanity. We women have a more subtle instinct about things. What we like is to be a man's last romance. -- Oscar Wilde
Tagged: dominance
In the beginning I was fooled by Dominants who were good looking, had charisma, dressed well, and had that "dominant" personae. I soon realized that these things are easy to fashion. Real Dominance is a deep and visceral thing, something that has nothing to do with the trappings of BDSM. -- Sensuous Sadie
Sex. In America an obsession. In other parts of the world a fact. -- Marlene Dietrich
Tagged: breasts, whip, walk, undies
I now know how to walk around properly in my undies. People would keep telling me to push my tits out! I also now know how to use a whip on people without causing bruising. -- Billie Piper
To say that you can love one person all your life is like saying that one candle will continue to burn as long as you live. -- Leo Tolstoy
Love does not dominate; it cultivates. -- Goethe
The only way to a woman's heart is along the path of torment. I know none other as sure. -- Marquis De Sade
No kind of sensation is keener and more active than pain it's impressions are unmistakable. -- Marquis De Sade
Tagged: sex, promiscuity
What is a promiscuous person? It's usually someone who is getting more sex than you are. -- Victor Lownes
Tagged: submission, ritual, sex, sacrament
The BDSM ritual may be predominantly sexual in expression, however the goal is not gratification per se, but ecstasy. BDSM is, above and beyond a physical need, the psyche's effort to make sex a sacrament. Only through the understanding and acceptance of the sacramental value of submission will slavehood be true. By the same token, of course, it also becomes holy. -- J. Mikael Togneri
Tagged: submission, kneeling
There are a hundred ways to kneel and kiss the ground. -- Rumi
