Best Masochistic Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Feisty Aly was hot. I couldn’t wait until she forgave me so I could start finding ways to piss her off again. Masochistic? Maybe. But for some reason, our bickering felt more like foreplay than an actual argument, and I was into it. I could only imagine how good the makeup sex would be.”

Josh Masochistic Feisty Aly

Book:Lights Out

Source: Lights Out

“I'm not a masochistic reader. If something is just too dense or not enjoyable, even though I'm told it should be good for me, I'll put it down. That said, most of what I read would be considered high-end or good for you, I suppose. But, I also think that reading should be enjoyable.”

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Author:Josh Radnor

“In the Middle Ages, the troubadour poets invented the concept of courtly love--a fantasy love, a noble passion, which was also extra-marital and thus inevitably thwarted, illicit, adulterous. One of the medieval terms for it was amour honestus (honest love). I've always wondered why this passionate ideal--masochistic, spiritual-travelled with such wildfire throughout Europe. My poem, a ghazal, takes up the subject.”

“The sadistic person is as dependent on the submissive person as the latter is on the former; neither can live without the other. The difference is only that the sadistic person commands, exploits, hurts, humiliates, and that the masochistic person is commanded, exploited, hurt, humiliated. This is a considerable difference in a realistic sense; in a deeper emotional sense, the difference is not so great as that which they both have in common: fusion without integrity .”

Source: The Erich Fromm Reader: Readings Selected and Edited by Rainer Funk

“Along with our passivity, we're entering a profoundly masochistic phase everyone is a victim these days, of parents, doctors, pharmaceutical companies, even love itself. And how much we enjoy it. Our happiest moments are spent trying to think up new varieties of victimhood.”

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Author:J. G. Ballard

“The thrill of terror is passive, masochistic, and implicitly feminine. It is imaginative submission to overwhelming superior force.”

Force Terror Superiors Feminine Overwhelming Passive Thrill Submission Imaginative Masochistic

Book:Sexual Personae

Source: Sexual Personae

“Those who delight in bad movies and enjoy producing their own unfilmed versions of Mystery Science Theater 3000 may gain a measure of semi-masochistic enjoyment out of Van Helsing . There are quite a few unintentionally funny moments, although the overall experience was too intensely painful for me to be able to advocate it as being "so bad, it's good."”

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Author:James Berardinelli

“I have a great editor and I enjoy, in a masochistic way, being ruthless about my own performance. How do I know, but I think I'm quite good at saying, "That's no good. That's no good. That's it. That's it. That's good." And I'm with the editor who goes, "No, I think you're wrong. That's not your best." There's an initial point in the editing, if you're directing yourself, especially in my case, where you go, "Ouch, ouch, ouch, I can't watch this." And then, there's a point where you become hard-nosed and just take your neurosis away and go, "What's working? That's okay. That's okay. We can lose that, and lose that." You get objective about it.”

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Author:Ralph Fiennes

“I never took the bus. Never. Walking meant you were eccentric or pious or a loser - riding the bus meant you were insane or masochistic and worse than a loser.”

Walking Insane Loser Bus Riding Eccentric Pious Masochistic

Author:Susan Straight

“For those with drive, wit, vision, ego and a masochistic outlook, there is always room.”

Success Rooms Vision Ego Wit Outlook Masochistic

Author:K Callan

“It seems that it is only in the United States that an almost masochistic attack on the position of its own oil companies exists.”

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Author:John J. McCloy

“I admire when people take the harder path, not because they are masochistic and want to beat themselves up, but because you actually kind of learn more and I think you grow more.”

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Author:Josh Hartnett

“We as human beings are slightly masochistic. Everybody is ridden with insecurities and they manifest themselves in different ways, whether you're a pleaser, you're mean, you're super-duper sweet and get walked on, or you're a gossip that talks about someone else.”

Way Humans Mean Different Human Beings Sweet Different Ways Insecurity Gossip Manifest Pleasers Masochistic

Author:Kristen Bell

“To decide to film a movie again shot by shot, you must be masochistic to a certain degree because it is a much greater challenge.”

Film Certain Challenges Greater Degrees Shots Masochistic

Author:Michael Haneke

“I love sex.... It should be animalistic, it should be sadistic, it should at times be masochistic.... There are few rules and moral conventions.”

Should Sex Moral Conventions Sadistic Animalistic Masochistic

Author:Jayne Mansfield

“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

“I started out in stand-up when I was 18, which is really masochistic, and I did it really till I started going in movies. I did it for about three years out in LA.”

Years Three Three Years Masochistic

Author:Debra Winger

“To refuse everything, to say, even when there is something which really should be done, "Ah, that's no longer feminist," is a pessimistic, even masochistic tendency in women, the result of having been habituated to inertia, to pessimism.”

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Author:Simone de Beauvoir

“There's something about Saint Francis's approach to life, zero expectations but pleasant surprise. In a lot of ways he was a really conflicted person. Some people would say he's masochistic . I don't really know, but I've always loved his reverence and his mindfulness.”

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Author:Denison Witmer

“Beyond the Einsteins and Darwins, most scientists don't have chroniclers. Einstein and Darwin were geniuses - that helps. Many scientists do amazing stuff, but it just disappears into footnotes and dusty medical journals. If I were masochistic enough, I could spend the rest of my life rescuing scientists. Most of them aren't natural self-promoters.”

Enough Helping Natural Genius Scientist Disappear Medical Masochistic

Author:Deborah Blum

“I do like to make people cringe. That discomfort, tension, embarrassment, pain - all of those things interest me, and not through some sort of masochistic or sadistic impulse. It illuminates what being a human being is. It taps into what it is to be human more incisively than stuff that's just very pedestrian.”

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Author:Steve Coogan

“Sigmund Freud already discovered that suffering gives us pleasure - in a strange masochistic way. The tyranny of choice exploits that weakness. Consumer culture exhausts us. We suffer. We destroy ourselves. And we just can't stop.”

Giving Suffering Choices Culture Pleasure Strange Weakness Tyranny Masochistic

Author:Renata Salecl

“Golfers have a tendency to be very masochistic. They like to punish themselves for some reason. A lot of them like tough courses.”

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Author:Jack Nicklaus

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

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Author:Laurence Olivier

“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.”

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Author:Emma Thompson

“To suffer unecessarily is masochistic rather than heroic.”

Suffering Heroic Masochistic

Author:Viktor E. Frankl

“And so the lion fell in love with the lamb…" he murmured. I looked away, hiding my eyes as I thrilled to the word. "What a stupid lamb," I sighed. "What a sick, masochistic lion.”

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Author:Stephenie Meyer

“Poisonous people do not deserve your time. To think otherwise is masochistic.”

People Thinking Deserve Time To Think Poisonous Masochistic

Author:Tim Ferriss

“And so the lion fell in love with the lamb.”

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Author:Stephenie Meyer

“You could kill me, Alice, he looked at me seriously. That's how much you mean to me. As foolish and masochistic as that makes me, you are so much to me that even if it destroys me to be with you, I'll be with you!”

Ifs Mean Foolish Kill Me Masochistic

Author:Amanda Hocking

“Every time I open the drawer, it's a trip down Memory Lane, which, if you don't turn off at the right exit, merges straight into the Masochistic Nostalgia Highway.”

Ifs Love Turns Memories Honest Nostalgia Highways Lanes Exit Drawers Turn Off Masochistic Memory Lane

Book:I Was Told There'd Be Cake

Source: I Was Told There'd Be Cake

“The only way to be a champion is by going through these forced reps and the torture and pain. That's way I call it the torture routine. Because it's like forced torture. Torturing my body. What helps me is to think of this pain as pleasure. Pain makes me grow. Growing is what I want. Therefore, for me pain is pleasure. And so when I am experiencing pain I'm in heaven. It's great. People suggest this is masochistic. But they're wrong. I like pain for a particular reason. I don't like needle's stuck in my arm. But I do like the pain that is necessary to be a champion.”

“To limit yourself to a label of "alcoholic" is masochistic and false if you have awakened a deeper spiritual identity within and have come to know your true self as unconditioned pure awareness. This doesn't mean that recovering alcoholics don't have to be concerned with relapsing, they must always remain vigilant. The power of addiction should not be underestimated. This exercise in vigilance can become a spiritual tool of liberation as well. Always being aware of choosing between real happiness and false happiness is also the discrimination required to attain enlightenment.”

“I was a self-centered bore. I was masochistic, and only thought I was happy. When I woke up and said, "there must be something wrong with me", I grew up. Because I never understood myself, how could I hope to understand anyone else? That's why I can truly say that now I can give a woman love for the first time in my life, because I can understand her.”

Giving Firsts Said I Can Self Grew Grew Up Understood First Time Experience Bores Self Centered Because I Can Masochistic

Author:Cary Grant

“Pain makes me grow. Growing is what I want. Therefore, for me pain is pleasure.”

Want Pain Grows Pleasure Growing Work Out Masochistic

Author:Arnold Schwarzenegger

“I’m pretty masochistic. I kill myself for my craft – Literally”

Crafts Masochistic

Author:Jared Leto

“People think I take some sort of masochistic pleasure out of putting out music that's gonna be unpopular.”

People Thinking Pleasure Masochistic

Author:Billy Corgan

“All of my roles have had their own unique set of challenges, and I enjoy that in some perverse, masochistic way. I’m always dying though! Maybe I have some kind of fetish.”

Way Kind Enjoy Challenges Roles Dying Unique Fetish Masochistic

Author:Jared Leto

“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.”

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Author:Andrea Dworkin

“The important thing is not to be masochistic. Women are so hard on themselves. Don't do that. No one is keeping score.”

Important Hard Important Things Score Masochistic

Author:Simon Doonan

“I feel like I am floating in plasma I need a teacher or a lover I need someone to risk being involved with me. I am so vain and I am so masochistic. How can they coexist?”

Needs Feels Teacher Risk Lovers Involved Vain Floating Coexist Masochistic Plasma

Author:Francesca Woodman

“I want to be stereotyped. I want to be classified. I want to be a clone. I want to be masochistic. I want to be sadistic. I want a Suburban Home. I don't want no hipppie pad; I want a house just like Mom and Dad.”

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Author:Milo Aukerman

“Marie Calloway has a very specific literary personality that the reader is intrigued by: she's masochistic, loves to experiment, is quickly bored and intermittently self-hating, very hip, rebellious. Figuring her out is a gripping adventure.”

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Author:Edmund White