{"quotes":[{"text":"Pedersen was always wooing her. Sometimes he was gracious and kind, but at other times when his failure wearied him he would be cruel and sardonic, with a suggestive tongue whose vice would have scourged her were it not that Marie was impervious, or too deeply inured to mind it. She always grinned at him and fobbed him off with pleasantries, whether he was amorous or acrid.'God Almighty,' he would groan, 'she is not good for me, this Marie. What can I do for her? She is burning me alive and the Skaggerack could not quench me, not all of it. The devil! What can I do with this? Some day I shall smash her across the eyes, yes, across the eyes.'So you see the man really loved her.('The Tiger').","author":"A.E. Coppard","tags":["irony","love","romance","sadism"],"id":20111,"author_id":"A.E.+Coppard"},{"text":"Unkindness is inspired by hatred, anger fuels it into action in which there is no great joy; it would take sadism to turn it into something pleasurable; unkind people imagine themselves to be inflicting pain on someone equally unkind.","author":"Marcel Proust","tags":["pleasure","sadism","unkindness"],"id":24725,"author_id":"Marcel+Proust"},{"text":"Be a sadist. No matter how sweet and innocent your leading characters, make awful things happen to them -- in order that the reader may see what they are made of.'[From the preface.].","author":"Kurt Vonnegut Jr.","tags":["adversity","characters","creative-process","sadism","writing"],"id":58378,"author_id":"Kurt+Vonnegut+Jr."},{"text":"Seriousness is too boring to the playful human condition. A heart of stone that has a long face can never express love.","author":"Michael Bassey Johnson","tags":["austerity","bore","boring","disappointment","expression","funny","grudge","hard","heartless","human-condition","humor","i-love-you","laughter","long-face","long-faced","love","pain","playful","sadism","serious-minded","serious-mindedness","seriousness","stone","worries"],"id":81583,"author_id":"Michael+Bassey+Johnson"},{"text":"Somewhere out there, a higherform of sadism won the first round.Well, screw that. I'm not ready to bepwned.","author":"Clyde DeSouza","tags":["artificial-intelligence","destiny","fate","free-will","god-s-will","humanity","posthumanism","sadism","transhumanism"],"id":82211,"author_id":"Clyde+DeSouza"},{"text":"For a torture to be effective, the pain has to be spread out; it has to come at regular intervals, with no end in sight. The water falls , drop after drop after drop, like the second hand of a watch, carving up time. The shock of each individual drop is insignificant, but the sensation is impossible to ignore. At first, one might manage to think about other things, but after five hours, after ten hours, it becomes unendurable. The repeated stimulation excites the nerves to a point where they literally explode, and every sensation in the body is absorbed into that one spot on the forehead---indeed, you come to feel that you are nothing but a forehead, into which a fine needle is being forced millimeter by millimeter. You can’t sleep or even speak, hypnotized by a suffering that is greater than any mere pain. In general, the victim goes mad before a day has passed.","author":"Yōko Ogawa","tags":["cruelty","madness","misery","pain","sadism","suffering","torment","torture","unhappiness"],"id":107186,"author_id":"Y%C5%8Dko+Ogawa"},{"text":"The blessed in the kingdom of heaven will see the punishments of the damned, in order that their bliss be more delightful for them.","author":"Thomas Aquinas","tags":["christianity","heaven","hell","sadism"],"id":115099,"author_id":"Thomas+Aquinas"},{"text":"Now driving in a wild frieze of headlong horses with eyes walled and teeth cropped and naked riders with clusters of arrows clenched in their jaws and their shields winking in the dust and pu the far side of the ruined ranks in a piping of boneflutes and dropping down off the sides of their mounts with one heel hung in the withers strap and their short bows flexing beneath the outstretched necks of the ponies until they had circled the company and cut their ranks in two and then rising up again like funhouse figures, some with nightmare faces painted on their breasts, riding down the unhorsed Saxons and spearing and clubbing them and leaping from their mounts with knives and running about on the ground with a peculiar bandylegged trot like creatures driven to alien forms of locomotion and stripping the clothes from the dead and seizing them up by the hair and passing their blades about the skulls of the living and the dead alike and snatching aloft the bloody wigs and hacking and chopping at the naked bodies, ripping off limbs, head, gutting the strange white torsos and holding up great handfuls of viscera, genitals, some of the savages so slathered up with gore they might have rolled in it like dogs and some who fell upon the dying and sodomized them with loud cries to their fellows.","author":"Cormac McCarthy","tags":["sadism","very-long-sentence","violence"],"id":119101,"author_id":"Cormac+McCarthy"},{"text":"To see others suffer does one good, to make others suffer even more: this is a hard saying but an ancient, mighty, human, all-too-human principle [....] Without cruelty there is no festival.","author":"Friedrich Nietzsche","tags":["sadism","suffering"],"id":130690,"author_id":"Friedrich+Nietzsche"},{"text":"Look at us. We build giant highways and murderously fast cars for killing each other and committing suicide. Instead of bomb shelters we construct gigantic frail glass buildings all over Manhattan at Ground Zero, a thousand feet high, open to the sky, life a woman undressing before an intruder and provoking him to rape her. We ring Russia's borders with missile-launching pads, and then scream that she's threatening us. In all history there's never been a more lurid mass example of the sadist-masochist expression of the thanatos instinct than the present conduct of the United States. The Nazis by comparison were Eagle Scouts.","author":"Herman Wouk","tags":["cities","death","ground-zero","manhattan","modernity","sadism","thanatos-instinct","united-states"],"id":139619,"author_id":"Herman+Wouk"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":33,"pages":4,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}