Random Quotes
And painful pleasure turns to pleasing pain. -- Edmund Spenser
Tagged: chains
Chains of iron or of silk-both are chains. -- Friedrich von Schiller
You gave me the key of your heart, my love; Then why did you make me knock?" "Oh that was yesterday, saints above! And last night- I changed the lock! -- John Boyle O'Reilly
Tagged: pleasure
One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other. -- Jane Austen
As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Tagged: bdsm, difference, kinky, spiritual
A riding crop and a blindfold doesn't make it BDSM. There is a big difference between being kinky and being in the scene. It's not a sexual thing to me, it's a very spiritual thing. -- DominaBlue
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
Tagged: whipping
Whipping is fifty percent show and noise. -- Anne Rice
Tagged: passions, unknown, awakening
The darkest passions lie dormant inside all of us; waiting, sweltering and pulsing with our every breath. It is up to awaken, mold and stimulate them.
-- unknownTagged: orgasm
I was in bed one night when my boyfriend Ernie said, "How come you never tell me when you're having an orgasm?" I said to him, "Ernie, you're never around. -- Bette Midler
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: calling, slave, vocation
Slavehood is a vocation, comparable and equal in every way to any religious calling. -- J. Mikael Togneri
Tagged: service, worth, price, work, self-sacrifice
For anything worth having one must pay the price; and the price is always work, patience, love, self-sacrifice--no paper currency, no promises to pay, but the gold of real service. -- John Burroughs
Tagged: submission, bondage
I'm not averse to being tied up - I like a man to take charge. There's something very sexy about being submissive. -- Eva Longoria
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: 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
Tagged: sex, erotic, life, force
We tend to think of the erotic as an easy, tantalizing sexual arousal. I speak of the erotic as the deepest life force, a force which moves us toward living in a fundamental way. -- Audre Lorde
Tagged: kissing
Kissing is man's greatest invention. All animals copulate, but only humans kiss. -- Tom Robbins
Tagged: love
Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I love you. -- Erich Fromm
There are thorns everywhere, but along the path of vice, roses bloom above them. -- Marquis De Sade
No lover, if he be of good faith, and sincere, will deny he would prefer to see his mistress dead than unfaithful. -- Marquis De Sade
Free of her lips, free of her hips. -- English Proverb
Tagged: beauty
Beauty isn't everything! But then what is? -- Sanford Wilson
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: pleasure, surrender, violence
One must do violence to the object of one's desire; when it surrenders, the pleasure is greater. -- Marquis De Sade
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
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: 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
Love does not dominate; it cultivates. -- Goethe
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: kneeling
On my knees I think clearer. -- U2
The eyes are the silent tongues of love. -- Miguel de Cervantes
Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own. -- Robert Heinlein
A dress has no meaning unless it makes a man want to take it off. -- Francoise Sagan
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
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: 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: 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
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: master, needs, bottom, slave
Bottoms have appetites that are their own, whereas slaves' needs become the same as those of the Master. -- Guy Baldwin
Tagged: sexuality
Sexuality is not a leisure or part-time activity. It is a way of being. -- Alexander Lowen
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: discipline, freedom, goal
Discipline gives total freedom; it allows you to go beyond limitations, to break through boundaries and reach the highest goal. -- Chidvilasananda
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
It doesn't matter what you do in the bedroom as long as you don't do it in the street and frighten the horses. -- Mrs. Patrick Campbell
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
Only a life lived in the service to others is worth living. -- Albert Einstein
Tagged: sex, promiscuity
What is a promiscuous person? It's usually someone who is getting more sex than you are. -- Victor Lownes
