BDSM quotes

-:Anais Nin:-
I do not want to be the leader. I refuse to be the leader. I want to live darkly and richly in my femaleness. I want a man lying over me, always over me. His will, his pleasure, his desire, his life, his work, his sexuality the touchstone, the command, my pivot. I don't mind working, holding my ground intellectually, artistically; but as a woman, oh, God, as a woman I want to be dominated. I don't mind being told to stand on my own feet, not to cling all that I am capable of doing but I am going to be pursued, fucked, possessed by the will of a male at his time, his bidding.

-:Hellen Keller:-
Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.

-:Ralph Waldo Emerson:-
Thou art to me a delicious torment.

-:Khalil Gibran:-
And he said, 'Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding. Even as the stone of the fruit must break, that its heart may stand in the sun, so must you know pain.

-: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.

-:Anais Nin:-
Ordinary life does not interest me. I seek only the high moments. I am in accord with the surrealists, searching for the marvelous.

-:The Ethical Slut by Dossie Eastman and Katherine Liszt:-
"Intimacy is based on shared vulnerability...nothing deepens intimacy like the experiences that we share when we feel flayed, with our skins off, scared and vulnerable, and our partner is there with us, willing to share in the scary stuff"

-:Sensuous Sadie:-
In the beginning I was fooled by Dominants who were good looking, had charisma, dressed well, and had that "dominant" personae. I soon realized that these things are easy to fashion. Real Dominance is a deep and visceral thing, something that has nothing to do with the trappings of BDSM.

-:Marquis DeSade:-
There are thorns everywhere, but along the path of vice, roses bloom above them.

-:Marquis DeSade:-
No kind of sensation is keener and more active than pain it's impressions are unmistakable.

-:Marquis DeSade:-
How delicious to corrupt, to stifle all semblances of virtue and religion in that young heart!

-:Anne Rice:-
Everyone is a potential naked slave to you once you become a trainer.

-:Joseph W. Bean:-
A 'working' bottom--one who is actively putting the Top's 'work' to joyful use--has liberty where he or she imagined limits.

-:Allophones Karr:-
You have to get past the pleasure stage, until you reach the stage of tears.
Some people are always grumbling because roses have thorns. I am thankful that thorns have roses.

-:Author Unknown:-
"A masochist walked up to a sadist, and said 'Hurt me'. The sadist said 'No' and walked away."

-:Kahlil Gibran Sand and Foam:-
The reality of the other person lies not in what he reveals to you but in what he cannot reveal to you. Therefore, if you would understand him, listen not to what he says but rather to what he does not say.

-:Author Unknown:-
Instead of complaining that rose bushes have thorns, rejoice that thorn bushes bloom

-:Anias Nin:-
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. Submitted by kikiluv