I've been to Hell. You've only read about it.

- Marquis De Sade

My passions, concentrated on a single point, resemble the rays of a sun assembled by a magnifying glass: they immediately set fire to whatever object…

- Marquis De Sade

God strung up his own son like a side of veal. I shudder to think what he would do to me.

- Marquis De Sade

I've already told you: the only way to a woman's heart is along the path of torment. I know none other as sure.

- Marquis De Sade

Sex without pain is like food without taste

- Marquis De Sade

Imperious, choleric, irascible, extreme in everything, with a dissolute imagination the like of which has never been seen, atheistic to the point of …

- Marquis De Sade

One must do violence to the object of one's desire; when it surrenders, the pleasure is greater.

- Marquis De Sade

We are no guiltier in following the primative impulses that govern us than is the Nile for her floods or the sea for her waves.

- Marquis De Sade

If it is the dirty element that gives pleasure to the act of lust, then the dirtier it is, the more pleasurable it is bound to be.

- Marquis De Sade