Best Masochism Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings Page 2

“Kindness is about energy we give and take from all creatures. The bottom line is the integrative interaction and the total interconnectedness between human beings, all creatures, and God. Kindness is a spirituality of solid truth, not shifting emotion; of justice, not occasional philanthropy; of genuine love, not sentimentality or masochism; of evolved adults, not fixated infants.”

“Jogging, I believe they call it. It seems to be an epidemic psychological illness afflicting Americans these days. A form of masochism, like the flagellantes in the Middle Ages.”

Believe Seems Age Form I Believe Middle Illness Psychological These Days Middle Ages Epidemics Jogging Masochism

Book:Small world: an academic romance

Source: Small world: an academic romance

“It amazes me to witness the masochism with which some journalists characterize their industry as a dying species. The future belongs to citizen journalism and blogs.”

Dying Industry Citizens Species Journalism Witness Journalist Blogs Masochism Citizen Journalism

Author:Mathias Dopfner

“Kids piercing themselves, piercing their tongues, what kind of masochism is that? Is it to show you can just take it?”

Kind Shows Kids Tongue Piercings Masochism

Author:Clint Eastwood

“There is probably an innate masochism in a lot of women that ends up disappointed if men don't ill-treat them.”

Ifs Men Ends Treats Ill Disappointed Innate Masochism

Author:Fay Weldon

“For me, it's not about masochism to talk about death. For me, it's about observing life through death, from the last point of it.”

Lasts Observing Masochism

Author:Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

“Lesbians, homosexuals, masochism, sadism are not perversions. Actually, there are only two perversions: hockey on grass and ballet on ice.”

Two Ice Grass Hockey Ballet Homosexual Perversion Sadism Masochism

Author:Faina Ranevskaya

“This might sound masochistic or narcissistic‚ I don't know‚ but when I'm not playing the game‚ the validations I feel about life are always through the hardships. I relate more to sadness‚ in a lot of ways‚ when I'm not playing.”

Knows Way Feels Might Games Sound Sadness Relate Hardship Narcissistic Validation Masochism Masochistic

Author:Abby Wambach

“The whole HTML validation exercise is questionable, but validating as XHTML is flat-out masochism. Only recommended for those that enjoy pain. Or programmers. I can’t always tell the difference.”

I Can Whole Pain Enjoy Differences Exercise Programming Flats Programmers Validation Questionable Masochism Html

Author:Jeff Atwood

“I wrote in Les Mots that "I have often thought against myself." That sentence has not been understood either. Critics have seen in it a confession of masochism. But that is how one should think: revolting against everything "inculcated'' that one may have within oneself.”

Thinking Should May Understood Critics Oneself Sentences Confession Masochism

Author:Jean-Paul Sartre

“Acting is a masochistic form of exhibitionism. It is not quite the occupation of an adult.”

Funny Form Actors Acting Humorous Adults Occupation Masochism Masochistic Actors And Acting Exhibitionism

Author:Laurence Olivier

“Masochism is a valuable job skill.”

Jobs Skills Valuable Masochism

Book:Choke: A Novel

Source: Choke: A Novel

“But when I lose my temper, I find it difficult to forgive myself. I feel I've failed. I can be calm in a crisis, in the face of death or things that hurt badly. I don't get hysterical, which may be masochistic of me.”

Feels May I Can Faces Difficult Loses Hurt Crisis Forgiving Calm Temper Hysterical Masochism Masochistic

Author:Emma Thompson

“Nostalgia is masochism and masochism is something masochists love to share.”

Share Nostalgia Masochism

Book:New Orleans, Mon Amour: Twenty Years of Writings from the City

Source: New Orleans, Mon Amour: Twenty Years of Writings from the City

“The quality which makes man want to write and be read is essentially a desire for self-exposure and masochism. Like one of those guys who has a compulsion to take his thing out and show it on the street.”

Men Want Writing Self Shows Desire Guy Quality Streets Exposure Compulsion Masochism

Author:James Jones

“Love, love, love – all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures, a welter of self-induced miseries and joys, blinding and masking the essential personalities in the frozen gestures of courtship, in the kissing and the dating and the desire, the compliments and the quarrels which vivify its barrenness.”

Source: the female eunuch

“In good old Colonial Dunsboro, masochism is a valuable job skill. It is in most jobs.”

Jobs Skills Valuable Masochism

Book:Choke: A Novel

Source: Choke: A Novel

“...the first thing you do at the end is reflect on the beginning. Maybe it's some form of reverse closure, or just the basic human impulse toward sentimentality, or masochism, but as you stand there shell-shocked in the charred ruins of your life, your mind will invariably go back to the time when it all started. And even if you didn't fall in love in the eighties, in your mind it will fee like the eighties, all innocent and airbrushed, with bright colors and shoulder pads and Pat Benatar or The Cure on the soundtrack.”

“If there wasn't a word for it, would we realize our masochism as much?”

Ifs Realizing Masochism

Book:The Lover's Dictionary: A Novel

Source: The Lover's Dictionary: A Novel

“Love, love, love - all the wretched cant of it, masking egotism, lust, masochism, fantasy under a mythology of sentimental postures.”

Love Fantasy Sexy Mythology Lust Sentimental Wretched Cant Egotism Posture Masochism

Book:the female eunuch

Source: the female eunuch

“I dont know that I want to act 15 years from now. I mean, I love the process of acting, but not the masochism. No matter how successful you get in Hollywood, you cannot rest. Your new movie doesn't open well; they're looking for the next person to replace you; it's always something. You never have true peace.”

Knows Want Years Wells Mean Persons Matter Next Process Acting Successful Hollywood True Peace Masochism

Author:Emma Caulfield

“As I see it, our revolutionary task is to destroy phallic identity in men and masochistic non-identity in women--that is, to destroy the polar realities of men and women as we now know them so that this division of human flesh into two camps--one an armed camp and the other a concentration camp--is no longer possible. Phallic identity is real and it must be destroyed. Female masochism is real and it must be destroyed.”

Knows Men Humans Two Real Reality Identity Men And Women Female Tasks Flesh Destroyed Revolutionary Concentration Division Camps Concentration Camp Masochism Masochistic

Author:Andrea Dworkin

“The student now goes to college to proclaim rather than to learn. A spirit of national masochism prevails, encouraged by an effete corps of impudent snobs who characterize themselves as intellectuals.”

Spirit Students College Snob Masochism

Author:Spiro T. Agnew

“To the end, I will remain a child of Europe, of worry and of shame. I have no message of hope to deliver. For the West, I do not feel hatred. At most I feel a great contempt. I know only that every single one of us reeks of selfishness, masochism and death. We have created a system in which it has simply become impossible to live, and what's more, we continue to export it.”

Knows Feels Children Ends Worry Impossible Messages Europe Hatred Shame West Selfishness Contempt Masochism Message Of Hope

Book:Platform: A Novel

Source: Platform: A Novel

“When blended with sexuality, the death instinct is transformed into more harmless impulses expressed in sadism or masochism.”

Instinct Sexuality Impulse Transformed Sadism Masochism

Book:The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness

Source: The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness

“I ache for the touch of your lips dear, but much more for the touch of your whips dear.”

Lips Dear Ache Whips Masochism

Author:Tom Lehrer

“You can raise welts like nobody else, as we dance to the Masochism Tango.”

Raises Dancing Tango Masochism

Author:Tom Lehrer