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Quotes About Submission

What if she actually enjoyed her debasement?
~ Pauline Réage
It's because it's easy for you to consent that I want from you what it will be impossible for you to consent to, even if you agree ahead of time, even if you say yes now and imagine yourself capable of submitting. You won't be able not to revolt. Your submission will be obtained in spite of you, not only for the inimitable pleasure that I and others will derive from it, but also so that you will be made aware of what has been done to you." O
~ Pauline Réage
Oh, how could she forget him! He was the hand that blindfolded her, the whip wielded by the valet Pierre, he was the chain above her head, the unknown man who came down on her, and all the voices which gave her orders were his voice.
~ Pauline Réage
But what a delight and comfort, this iron ring which pierces the flesh and weighs one down forever, this mark eternal, how peaceful and reassuring the hand of a master who lays you on a bed of rock, the love of a master who knows how to take what he loves ruthlessly, without pity.
~ Pauline Réage
O felt that he was watching her the way a lion trainer watches the animal he has trained, careful to see that it performs with complete obedience and thus does honor to him, but even more the way a prince's bodyguard or a bandit's second-in-command keeps an eye on the prostitute he has gone down to fetch in the street.
~ Pauline Réage
My sweet angel," he had said, "you mean you still haven't understood that you no longer belong to me, that I'm no longer the master who's in charge of you?" Not
~ Pauline Réage
He would probably never want anything from her save her submission to his desire, as long as he continued to desire her.
~ Pauline Réage
On the contrary, they wanted to hear her scream; and the sooner the better. The pride she mustered to resist and remain silent did not long endure: they even heard her beg them to untie her, to stop for a second, just for a second.
~ Pauline Réage
But she could not move of her own free will—an order from them would immediately have made her get up, but this time what they wanted from her was not blind obedience, acquiescence to an order, they wanted her to anticipate orders, to judge herself a slave and surrender herself as such. This, then, is what they called her consent.
~ Pauline Réage
All we ask you to do is submit to it, and, if you scream or moan, to agree ahead of time that it will be in vain
~ Pauline Réage
She was vanquished, undone, and humiliated that she had moaned.
~ Pauline Réage
without leaving his armchair, without even touching her with his fingertips, he ordered her to kneel down in front of him, take him and caress his sex until he discharged in her mouth.
~ Pauline Réage
Thus, he had thrust his hands and sex into her, ransacked and ravaged her mouth and rear, but condescended only to place his lips upon her fingertips.
~ Pauline Réage
IT IS A FEARFUL THING TO FALL INTO THE HANDS OF THE LIVING GOD No
~ Pauline Réage
From now on the only times you will open your mouth here in the presence of a man will be to cry out or to caress." So
~ Pauline Réage
She considered herself fortunate to count enough in his eyes for him to derive pleasure from offending her, as believers give thanks to God for humbling them.
~ Pauline Réage
O was happy that René had had her whipped and had prostituted her, because her impassioned submission would furnish her lover with the proof that she belonged to him, but also because the pain and shame of the lash, and the outrage inflicted upon her by those who compelled her to pleasure when they took her, and at the same time delighted in their own without paying the slightest heed to hers, seemed to her the very redemption of her sins.
~ Pauline Réage
All four of them had taken her, and she had not been able to distinguish him from the others. They
~ Pauline Réage
And yet never had she felt herself more totally committed to a will which was not her own, more totally a slave, and more content to be so. When
~ Pauline Réage
Ella no deseaba morir, pero si el suplicio era el precio que tenía que pagar para que su amante siguiera amándola, no pedía más que él estuviera contento de que ella lo hubiera sufrido y, sumisa y callada, esperaba que la condujeran a él.
~ Pauline Réage
Su promesa la ataba tanto como las pulseras de cuero y las cadenas.
~ Pauline Réage
Tú confundes el amor con la obediencia. A mí me obedecerás sin amarme y sin que yo te ame.
~ Pauline Réage
O se alegraba de que René la hiciera azotar y la prostituyera porque su apasionada sumisión daba a su amante la prueba de su entrega.
~ Pauline Réage
She considered herself fortunate to count enough in his eyes for him to derive pleasure from offending her, as believers give thanks to God for humbling them. But
~ Pauline Réage