Marquis De Sade quotes

The idea of God is the sole wrong for which I cannot forgive mankind.

Lust is to the other passions what the nervous fluid is to life; it supports them all, lends strength to them all ambition, cruelty, avarice, revenge, are all founded on lust.

Happiness lies neither in vice nor in virtue; but in the manner we appreciate the one and the other, and the choice we make pursuant to our individual organization.

Happiness is ideal, it is the work of the imagination.

Your body is the church where Nature asks to be reverenced.

Happiness is ideal, it is the work of the imagination.

The primary and most beautiful of Nature's qualities is motion, which agitates her at all times, but this motion is simply a perpetual consequence of crimes, she conserves it by means of crimes only.

The imagination is the spur of delights... all depends upon it, it is the mainspring of everything; now, is it not by means of the imagination one knows joy? Is it not of the imagination that the sharpest pleasures arise?

No lover, if he be of good faith, and sincere, will deny he would prefer to see his mistress dead than unfaithful.

Your body is the church where Nature asks to be reverenced.

Never lose sight of the fact that all human felicity lies in man's imagination, and that he cannot think to attain it unless he heeds all his caprices. The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries.

'Til the infallibility of human judgements shall have been proved to me, I shall demand the abolition of the penalty of death.

Truth titillates the imagination far less than fiction.