Random Quotes
The flesh is aye fairest that's farthest from the bone. -- Scottish Proverb
I bend, but I do not break. -- Jean de La Fontaine
You have to get past the pleasure stage, until you reach the stage of tears. -- Pauline Reage
Tagged: bdsm, experience
You can read a hundred books and cruise a thousand websites and chatrooms, but it will not equal one hour of real-time BDSM experience. -- Sensuous Sadie
We are the masters of words we've never spoken and the slaves of the ones we have. -- Sandra West Prowell
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: terror, anticipation
There is no terror in the bang ... only in the anticipation of it. -- Alfred Hitchock
Tagged: pleasure
One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other. -- Jane Austen
Tagged: dominance, consent, bottom, job
The number one job of the dominant is to continually seduce consent
from the bottom. -- Joseph Bean
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: 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
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
Arousal is a miracle... Don't try to hide it. [It is] an unsolicited endorsement, a standing ovation, a spontaneous demonstration -- Playboy
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
Tagged:
When a su -- Desmond Ravenstone
Tagged: intention, expectation
I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be. -- Douglas Adams
Tagged: masochism, sadism, transformation
In the absence of light there is only darkness and in the eyes of a True Sadist pleasure and pain are one in same. It is through pain that the True Sadist is Born and thrives, be it through the creation of physical, emotional. It is in this that One finds Their greatest joy. It is though the discovery of the pleasure of pain, the knowlage that it is His pleasure that a masochist is born and thrives. With Me, Sadism is not an area where there is grey, things are either black or white -- DarkSadistLust
Tagged: pleasure, surrender, violence
One must do violence to the object of one's desire; when it surrenders, the pleasure is greater. -- Marquis De Sade
Sex. In America an obsession. In other parts of the world a fact. -- Marlene Dietrich
Once you familiarize yourself with the chains of bondage, you prepare your own limbs to wear them. -- Abraham Lincoln
Tagged: desire, woman, man, want
When I am dead, you'll find it hard, says he
To ever find another like me.
What makes you think, as I suppose you do,
I'll ever want another man like you? -- Eugene T. Ware
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you've imagined. -- Henry David Thoreau
Narcissism is the art of looking in the mirror and saying 'Damn I'd like to have sex with me.' -- Anonymous
Tagged: dominance, submission
It's the submissives that show to others what type of Dom owns them. -- Anonymous
To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself and so to be present in all that one does, from the effort of loving to the breaking of bread. -- James Baldwin
Tagged: breasts
A full bosom is actually a millstone around a woman's neck... [Breasts] are not parts of a person but lures slung around her neck, to be kneaded and twisted like magic putty, or mumbled and mouthed like lolly ices. -- Germaine Greer
Tagged: bondage, discipline, trust
In a sense, you will find that it does not matter what stance you take in bondage and discipline games. Either role done well transcends into the other, and to be done well both require trust. -- Lady Ravinia
Free of her lips, free of her hips. -- English Proverb
Tagged: intimacy, vulnerable
Intimacy is based on shared vulnerability...nothing deepens intimacy like the experiences that we share when we feel flayed, with our skins off, scared and vulnerable, and our partner is there with us, willing to share in the scary stuff -- Dossie Easton & Catherine A. Liszt
Tagged: bondage
How blessed am I in this discovering thee
To enter in these bonds is to be free. -- John Donne
Everyone is a potential naked slave to you once you become a trainer. -- Anne Rice
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
Tagged: strength, confidence, time
I was always looking outside myself for strength and confidence, but it comes from within. It is there all the time. -- Anna Freud
Tagged: kissing
Why does a man take it for granted that a girl who flirts with him wants him to kiss her- when, nine times out of ten, she only wants him to want to kiss her. -- Helen Rowland
Tagged: discipline, suffer, pain
We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment. -- Jim Rohn
Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction. -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own. -- Robert Heinlein
Tagged: reality, experience, alive
...what we're seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonances within our own innermost being and reality, so that we actually feel the rapture of being alive. -- Joseph Campbell
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
The only way to a woman's heart is along the path of torment. I know none other as sure. -- Marquis De Sade
Tagged: suffer
Always make the audience suffer as much as possible. -- Alfred Hitchcock
The noblest service comes from nameless hands, And the best servant does his work unseen. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes
Tagged: discipline, wisdom, fools
Fools despise wisdom and discipline. -- Proverbs 1:7
Be careful Anais, abnormal pleasures kill the taste for normal ones. -- Eduardo
I regret to say that we of the FBI are powerless to act in cases of oral-genital intimacy, unless it has in some way obstructed interstate commerce. -- J. Edgar Hoover
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...
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
The modern erotic ideal: man and woman in loving sexual embrace experiencing simultaneous orgasm through genital intercourse. This is psychiatric-sexual myth useful in forcing feelings of sexual inadequacy and personal inferiority. It is also a rich source of "psychiatric patients. -- Thomas Szasz
Tagged: leather, spirituality
I have come close enough to know that there is something to the "spiritual" side of leather. -- Jack Rinella
Tagged: submission, consent, control, dynamic, illusion
The Power exchange that occurs within a D/s dynamic is essentially an illussion! The submissive always retains the power of consent, and the only power the Dominant truly has are those gifted to them by their submissive, and only within the confines of that negotiagted dynamic. -- Father Mark (bdsmgallery.org)
