BDSM Quotes

Just quotes that I feel expresses some side of the BDSM lifestyle. This is solely based on my opinion; many of these quotes can be taken in different ways.1

You don't know me. [You just own me.]2

She becomes the canvas from which I hang my feelings and thoughts, fears and desires. She is all things to one man. She is the most intimately personal and the objectified impersonal; she is my muse.
-Spiral Studios (Artist's name is not given)3

From the 'muse' series - She's a potent narcotic, comes on in waves, alters my perspective, makes me lose myself in the moment.
-Spiral Studios (Artist's name is not given)4

Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars.
-Kahlil Gibran5

The important thing is this: To be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become.
-Charles Dubois6

There is no such thing as pain, there is only intense physical sensation.
-Fakir Musafar7

There are two kinds of strengths: the strength to lead, and the strength to follow; the strength to control, and the strength yield. There are two kinds of power: the power to strip away another's soul bare, and the power to stand naked.
-Yaldah Tovah8

One of the pleasant things about owning a slave,' I said, 'is the opportunity to converse with her, to listen to her, to hear her express herself, her feelings and ideas. One can learn much from a slave. Many slaves, like yourself, are highly intelligent. They can express themselves articulately, clearly, trenchantly, and lyrically. It is a great pleasure to talk with them.' 'Then when one wishes,' I said, 'one puts them again on their knees.
-Beasts of Gor, page 2039

Nothing is so strong as gentleness, nothing so gentle as real strength.
-St. Francis de Sales10

Submission can actually engender power: realizing that you have something to give, and that you are capable of mastering your own will to give it up the way your top wants it instead of the way you think S/He should want it, can inspire pride: not the false pride of an inflated ego, but the true pride that, like humility, comes from knowing the depths of your self.
-William Henkin11

You must submit to supreme suffering in order to discover the completion of joy.
-John Calvin12

A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity.
-Buddha13

Discipline gives total freedom; it allows you to go beyond limitations, to break through boundaries and reach the highest goal.
-Chidvilasananda14

That which yields is not always weak.
-Kushiel's Dart by Jacqueline Carey15

A slave submits primarily to her own nature… That she requires a material, extrovert focus for her submission, i.e. the dominant, does not alter the fact that on the spiritual level her submission is essentially introverted. One could say that through the dominant she submits to herself by proxy… Each makes the other possible, tied together as they are in symbiotic interdependence.
-J. Mikael Togneri in Spirituality In Slavehood16

The Master is an artist, His slave the clay, with the whip He will shape her, with humility He will mold her. Some will admire her, but only the Master, not even the slave, will know her true beauty, for her true beauty lies in her love for her Master.
-J. Yednak17

You told me to love you and I did. Tied my soul into a knot and got me to submit.
-Dead Memories by Slipknot18

Beauty is something wonderful and strange that the artist fashions out of the chaos of the world in the torment of his soul.
-William Somerset Maugham19

To live is the suffer, to suffer is to be beautiful. To be beautiful is to live.
-Unknown20

Lead me into the darkest corners of Your desires and I'll unlock and feed what lives inside.
-Unknown21

I don't know, I would never see you as weak, I just see you as suffering in your strength.
-Unknown22

Through the fires of His hand, through the tears they both cried, through the love that sealed Eternity...from submissive to slave...she is now born...the birth of a legacy.
-Unknown23

For it was not into my ear He whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips He kissed, but my soul, He calls me slave, I call Him Master.
-Unknown24

It's the submissive's that show to others what type of Dom owns them.
-Unknown25

I can't be a slave; a very small voice whispered in the dark
But you already are; the voice answered itself in the recesses of her mind.
-Unknown26

The slave escapes her bonds to find a stronger set of chains.
-Unknown27

A mediocre Master tells, a good Master teaches, an excellent Master explains, but a True Master inspires.
-Unknown28

Bind my ankles with your white cotton rope so I cannot walk. Bind my wrists so I cannot push you away. Place me on the bed and wrap your rope tighter around my skin so it grips my flesh. Now I know that struggle is useless, that I must lie here and submit to your mouth and tongue and teeth, your hands and words and whims. I exist only as your object. Exposed.
-Unknown29

The first edict is not obedience.
The first edict is to honor, cherish, and protect.
The second is to serve.
The third is to obey.
-Unknown