Masochism Quotes

“For the time being there is only one alternative: to be the hammer or the anvil.”
― Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, Masochism: Coldness and Cruelty & Venus in Furs

“A spurious sense of tragedy dulls our intelligence; how many authors are distorted by placing a childishly tragic construction on what is more often the expression of an aggressively comic force! The comic is the only possible mode of conceiving the law, in a peculiar combination of irony and humor.”
― Gilles Deleuze, Masochism: Coldness and Cruelty & Venus in Furs