Top Ranking Quotes
No one but a woman in love ever sees the maximum of men's greatness. -- Anais Nin
Tagged: love
You need somebody to love while you're looking for someone to love. -- Shelagh Delaney
Tagged: erotic
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
...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
The eyes are the silent tongues of love. -- Miguel de Cervantes
It is certainly no crime to depict the bizarre ideas that nature inspires. -- Marquis De Sade
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
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)
A dress has no meaning unless it makes a man want to take it off. -- Francoise Sagan
Tagged: submission, woman, strength
The true strength of a woman is not measured by her compliance to
being shackled to a bed that becomes a fortress of solitude, but her
willingness to submit her very heart and very soul. -- Ron
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
Ultimately, the purpose of a flogging is to inflict pleasure. -- Mitch Kessler
It is certainly no crime to depict the bizarre ideas that nature inspires. -- 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: 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
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: 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: power, aphrodisiac
Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac. -- Henry Kissinger
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
Love well, whip well. -- Benjamin Franklin
A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has not overcome them. -- Carl Jung
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
As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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
Stars, hide your fires; Let not light see my black and deep desires. -- William Shakespeare
You have to get past the pleasure stage, until you reach the stage of tears. -- Pauline Reage
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: bondage
How blessed am I in this discovering thee
To enter in these bonds is to be free. -- John Donne
Tagged: sex
Sex contains all, bodies, souls,
Meanings, proofs, purities, delicacies, results, promulgations,
Songs, commands, health, pride, the maternal mystery, the seminal milk,
All hopes benefactions, bestowals, all the passions, loves, beauties, delights of the earth. -- Walt Whitman
Tagged: love, leather, chaos, war
I urge you all today, especially today during these times of chaos and war, to love yourself without reservations and to love each other without restraint. Unless you're into leather. And then, by all means, use restraints. -- Margaret Cho
True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new. -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Only a life lived in the service to others is worth living. -- Albert Einstein
Tagged: submission, slavery
Submissives need to be told what to do. Slaves need to do what they are told. -- Unknown
The slave escapes her bonds to find a stronger set of chains. -- Anonymous
Tagged: slapping
Listen, when I slap you you'll take it and like it. -- Humphrey Bogart
Tagged: sex, orgasm, penetration
The moment of greatest significance in love-making is not the moment of orgasm. It is rather the moment of entrance, the moment of penetration... This is the moment that shakes us, that has within it the great wonder, tremendous and tremulous as it may be- or disappointing and despairing, which says the same thing from the opposite point of view. -- Rollo May
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
A masochist walked up to a sadist, and said 'Hurt me'. The sadist said 'No' and walked away. -- Unknown
Tagged: whipping
Whipping is fifty percent show and noise. -- Anne Rice
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
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: 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
Tagged: kneeling
On my knees I think clearer. -- U2
Once you familiarize yourself with the chains of bondage, you prepare your own limbs to wear them. -- Abraham Lincoln
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
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
There are thorns everywhere, but along the path of vice, roses bloom above them. -- Marquis De Sade
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you've imagined. -- Henry David Thoreau
Tagged: sex, freedom, sex practices
I think people should be free to engage in any sexual practices they choose; they should draw the line at goats though. -- Elton John
Everyone is a potential naked slave to you once you become a trainer. -- Anne Rice
