Random Quotes
The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands. -- Benjamin Franklin
There are thorns everywhere, but along the path of vice, roses bloom above them. -- Marquis De Sade
Tagged: power, influence, lady
Power is like being a lady. . . if you have to tell people you are, you aren't. -- Margaret Thatcher
Tagged: life, journey, destiny
The longest journey is the journey inwards. Of him who has chosen his destiny, Who has started upon his quest for the source of his being. -- Dag Hammarskjold
A dress has no meaning unless it makes a man want to take it off. -- Francoise Sagan
I could spend my life in this sweet surrender. -- Aerosmith
Tagged: ritual, protocol, essential
Ritual is important. It is fulfilling and meaningful. It is beautiful. It is symbolic, mnemonic, and instructive. It establishes protocols. It expresses, defines, and clarifies conditions. It is essential to, and ingredient within, civilization. Similarly, do not overlook the significance and value of symbolism." Vagabonds of Gor -- -- John Norman
I bend, but I do not break. -- Jean de La Fontaine
If loving you makes a slave of me, then I'll spend my whole life in chains. -- Sophie B. Hawkins
Tagged: woman, instinct, courage
I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naive or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman. -- Anais Nin
Tagged: service, good, nature, peace, success
If I have been of service, if I have glimpsed more of the nature and essence of ultimate good, if I am inspired to reach wider horizons of thought and action, if I am at peace with myself, it has been a successful day. -- Alex Noble
Tagged: slavery, path, crawling
The path to slavery is so narrow that two cannot walk upon it at the same time, hence why the slave must crawl behind. -- Unknown
We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are. -- Anais Nin
Any man that can't find what he is looking for in a thousand women is really looking for a boy. -- Gershon Legman
Tagged: dominance, submission
It's the submissives that show to others what type of Dom owns them. -- Anonymous
Tagged: beauty
Beauty isn't everything! But then what is? -- Sanford Wilson
True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new. -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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: sex, proverb, creative
Be creative; invent a sexual perversion. -- Graffito
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: 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
A successful M/s relationship is contingent upon the synergy of its participants. -- His pet elizabeth
Tagged: submission, masochism, gifts, power exchange
A submissive washing dishes for his dominant, knowing that each soap bubble, each swirl of water is a gift, an honoring, may feel the humming resonance of a hunger, partially satisfied, deep in his spirit. A domme, caught up in the meditative precision of tying each knot precisely *so*, may feel an echo of cathedral walls around her, each motion guiding her, and those around her closer to the God they seek. A masochist, floating in the scintillations of painwaves as the whip falls against her time and time again, may begin to feel their cadence as the cadence of prayer. A hesitant sadist may, with the first hissing of his partner's breath, begin to understand the transformative power he wields with his strap. -- Unknown
Tagged: love
Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I love you. -- Erich Fromm
Tagged: slavery, path, crawling
The path to slavery is so narrow that two cannot walk upon it at the same time, hence why the slave must crawl behind. -- Unknown
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: submission, power, mercy
I want to put myself absolutely at your mercy for good or evil without any condition, without any limit to your power. -- Leopold von Sacher-Masoch
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
When you think night and day and every moment only of pleasing me, things will be very easy for you. -- Anne Rice
Tagged: terror, anticipation
There is no terror in the bang ... only in the anticipation of it. -- Alfred Hitchock
It is certainly no crime to depict the bizarre ideas that nature inspires. -- Marquis De Sade
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
Tagged: possession, giving
"It's in giving yourself that you possess yourself" -- Louise Andreas-Salomé
Tagged: slavery, study, patience, learning
A slave's life is mostly composed of patience and study. Yes, study. If not with actual books, then following the example of greater, senior slaves. Or learning every nuance of their owner's character, so that they can more completely and seamlessly offer themselves at the right time and in the right manner. -- Laura Antoniou
Tagged: bdsm, religious doctrine, opposition
BDSM appears to stand in opposition to much religious doctrine (speaking primarily to the Christian doctrines here), and there are aspects on the extreme fringes that in fact are in opposition to direct religious teachings. I said 'appears' for a very good reason. In fact, a large percentage of the spiritual teachings parallel the basic premises of D/s. -- Mistress Steel
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: 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
Tagged: chains
Chains of iron or of silk-both are chains. -- Friedrich von Schiller
...the most beautiful part of her was the long-sloping fall of the haunches from the socket of the back, and then slumberous round stillness of the buttocks. Like hillocks of sand the Arabs say, soft and downward-slipping with a long slope -- D.H. Lawrence
Tagged: sex
Anyone who calls it "sexual intercourse" can't possibly be interested in doing it. You might as well announce you're ready for lunch by proclaiming "I'd like to do some masticating and enzyme secreting. -- Allan Sherman
Tagged: love, service, life, calling
I've come to believe that each of us has a personal calling that's as unique as a fingerprint - and that the best way to succeed is to discover what you love and then find a way to offer it to others in the form of service, working hard, and also allowing the energy of the universe to lead you. -- Oprah Winfrey
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
Yes, this was love, the ridiculous bounding of the buttocks and the wilding of the poor, insignificant moist little penis. -- D.H. Lawrence
Free of her lips, free of her hips. -- English Proverb
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: spanking, torture, poetry
Look, if you want to torture me, spank me, lick me, do it. But if this poetry shit continues just shoot me now please. -- Lori Petty
Only a life lived in the service to others is worth living. -- Albert Einstein
The first and the best victory is to conquer self. -- Plato
It is certainly no crime to depict the bizarre ideas that nature inspires. -- Marquis De Sade
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)
