“Nostalgia is masochism and masochism is something masochists love to share.”
“A perversion must be baptized and patronized (the Marquis De Sade and Leopold Von Sacher-Masoch were on to something).”
“If there wasn't a word for it, would we realize our masochism as much?”
“In good old Colonial Dunsboro, masochism is a valuable job skill. It is in most jobs.”
“That an action would be cowardly is not often found by an agent to be a consideration in its favor, but it could be, and in a counterethical way, ministering to a masochism of shame.”
“Jogging, I believe they call it. It seems to be an epidemic psychological illness afflicting Americans these days. A form of masochism, like the flagellantes in the Middle Ages.”