Pleasure/masochism

Famous quotes containing the words pleasure and/or masochism:

“It is a great pleasure to escape sometimes from the restless class of Reformers. What if these grievances exist? So do you and I.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“Sadism and masochism, in Freud’s final formulation, are fusions of Eros and the destructive instincts. Sadism represents a fusion of the erotic instincts and the destructive instincts directed outwards, in which the destructiveness has the character of aggressiveness. Masochism represents the fusion of the erotic instincts and the destructive instincts turned against oneself, the aim of the latter being self-destruction.”
—Patrick Mullahy (b. 1912)