Masochistic Quotes 

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...
J. G. Ballard
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The thrill of terror is passive, masochistic, and implicitly feminine. It is imaginative submission to overwhelming superior force.

camille paglia

— Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990, pg. 267)

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If you're masochistic enough to program in Ada , we're not going to stop you.


— Matt Welsh; Cited in: Daniel A. Tauber (1995) The complete Linux kit. p. 132

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

laurence olivier

— 1978  Quoted in Time, 3  Jul.

Tags: Acting, form, exhibitionism, occupation, adult, quite

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