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The 120 Days of Sodom QUOTES

The 120 Days of Sodom QUOTES

1 " 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 , The 120 Days of Sodom

2 " Fanchon, 69 years of age, has been hanged 6 times in effigy, and has committed all imaginable crimes; she has a squint, and is pug-nosed, short, fat, with no forehead and only 2 teeth; an erysipelas covers her arse, a bunch of haemorrhoids hangs from her arsehole, a canker devours her vagina, she has a burnt thigh and a cancer eating away at her breast; she is always drunk, vomits, farts and shits all over the place and at any time without even noticing. "

― Marquis de Sade , The 120 Days of Sodom

3 " Piety is a veritable malady of the soul – no matter what one does, one cannot mend one's ways. It penetrates the souls of the unfortunate more easily because it consoles them, because it offers them fantasies to console them for their woes, and so it is much more difficult to eradicate it from these souls than others. "

― Marquis de Sade , The 120 Days of Sodom

4 " All I can tell you for certain is that at this very moment I'm speaking to you I could do with a really foul whore – I'd like her fresh from the seat of a close stool, her arse reeking of shit, and her cunt smelling of fish. Ho there, Thérèse! You whose filthiness dates back to the Flood, you who haven't wiped your arse since you were baptized and you whose vile cunt stinks for ten miles around, bring all that over here, I beg you, and add a turd, too, if you like. "

― Marquis de Sade , The 120 Days of Sodom

5 " How many times, good God, have I not wished it were possible to attack the sun, to deprive the universe of it, or to use it to set the world ablaze – those would be crimes indeed, and not the little excesses in which we indulge, which do no more than metamorphose, in the course of a year, a dozen creatures into clods of earth. "

― Marquis de Sade , The 120 Days of Sodom

6 " How many times, by God’s bloody prick, have I longed to be able to detonate planets, to destroy the sun itself, to puck it from the universe and crash it into the earth, annihilating all Creation and replacing it with a lightless void of violence. Ah, that would be a crime! A cosmic crime, dwarfing the petty misdemeanours we are committing here, limited as we are to snuffing out a few meaningless souls. "

― Marquis de Sade , The 120 Days of Sodom

7 " To combine incest, adultery, sodomy and sacrilege, he buggers his married daughter with a host. "

― Marquis de Sade , The 120 Days of Sodom

8 " Nothing that makes one hard is wicked and the only crime in the world is to refuse oneself that pleasure. "

― Marquis de Sade , The 120 Days of Sodom

9 " Words gave way to deeds, the Duc became inflamed, and I do not know how or why, but it was claimed that Thérèse bore the scars for some time. "

― Marquis de Sade , The 120 Days of Sodom

10 " The lecher swears, the come flows and supper sounds. "

― Marquis de Sade , The 120 Days of Sodom

11 " All four had to be carried off after they were found swimming in the floods of their own filth – the Président asleep with his mouth sealed to that of Madame Desgranges, who was still vomiting into it. "

― Marquis de Sade , The 120 Days of Sodom

12 " That same evening Michette, having eaten a great deal, is suspended by her feet until she has vomited all of it over Curval, who frigs himself beneath her and swallows. "

― Marquis de Sade , The 120 Days of Sodom

13 " The Président was not the only one with depraved tastes: his three friends, and Durcet in particular, were all rather smitten with this accursed mania for turpitude and debauchery that causes one to find a more picquant charm in old, disgusting and filthy objects than in the most divine of Nature's creations. "

― Marquis de Sade , The 120 Days of Sodom

14 " Thérèse had never in her life, so she said, wiped her arse, and it was perfectly evident that there was still shit there from her childhood; as for her vagina, it was the repository of every filth and horror, a veritable sepulchre whose fetidness would cause one to faint; "

― Marquis de Sade , The 120 Days of Sodom

15 " The rest of that worn and withered body – that arse of taffeta chiné, that gaping, rancid hole in the middle, those mutilations to the breast and to three fingers, that stunted leg that makes her limp, that toothless mouth – all of this inflames, excites our two libertines: Durcet sucks her from in front, Curval from behind, and while objects of the most exquisite beauty and utmost freshness are there before them, ready to satisfy their slightest desires, it is with something that Nature and crime have defiled, have withered, it is with the filthiest and most disgusting object that our two ecstatic lechers will taste the most delectable pleasures....And who can explain man after that? "

― Marquis de Sade , The 120 Days of Sodom

16 " It is utterly misguided to say that the mouth of a woman or young boy must be absolutely clean in order to give pleasure; putting all manias to one side, I shall grant you if you wish that a man who craves a stinking mouth does so only out of depravity, but you must in return grant me that a mouth without the slightest fragrance gives no pleasure at all when kissed – there must always be a certain spice, a certain piquancy to all such pleasures and this picquancy is found only in a little filth. "

― Marquis de Sade , The 120 Days of Sodom

17 " ...it is in the midst of sensual pleasures that one takes delight in torments. "

― Marquis de Sade , The 120 Days of Sodom

18 " He was 45 years old, with a very fine physiognomy, rather pretty eyes, but a revolting mouth and revolting teeth, a pale, hairless body, a small but shapely arse, and a prick 5 inches around by 6 inches long. "

― Marquis de Sade , The 120 Days of Sodom

19 " How many times, by God’s bloody prick, have I longed to be able to detonate planets, to destroy the sun itself, to pluck it from the universe and crash it into the earth, annihilating all Creation and replacing it with a lightless void of violence. Ah, that would be a crime! A cosmic crime, dwarfing the petty misdemeanours we are committing here, limited as we are to snuffing out a few meaningless souls "

― Marquis de Sade , The 120 Days of Sodom

20 " He cuts off a young boy's four limbs, buggers the torso, feeds him well and so keeps him alive; as the limbs were not cut off too close to the torso, he lives for a long time – he buggers him thus for more than a year. "

― Marquis de Sade , The 120 Days of Sodom