87 Quotes by Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

Pleasure alone makes existence worthwhile. A pleasure-seeker has a difficult time parting from life.

Love knows no virtue, no merit; it loves and forgives and tolerates everything because it must. We are not guided by reason...

Never feel safe with the woman you love, for a woman’s nature conceals more dangers than you think.

Desire followed the glance, pleasure followed desire.

Woman, as Nature has created her and as she is currently reared by man, is his enemy and can only be his slave or his despot, but never his companion. She will be able to become his companion only when she has the same rights as he, when she is his equal in education and work.

You modern men, you children of reason, cannot begin to appreciate love as pure bliss and divine serenity.

The true comic muse is the one with tears running down under her laughing mask.

Despite all the progress of civilization, women have remained exactly as they emerged from the hand of Nature.

There is no describing the feeling of being mistreated by a successful rival in front of the woman you worship.