Eros Quotes

(On the myth of Eros)Each time I recall this myth, I wonder: Are we never to be able to see the true...

if someone got to see the Beautiful itself, absolute, pure, unmixed, not polluted by human flesh or ...

if someone got to see the Beautiful itself, absolute, pure, unmixed, not polluted by human flesh or ...

Eros, again now, the loosener of limbs troubles me,Bittersweet, sly, uncontrollable creature….

I may now add that civilization is a process in the service of Eros, whose purpose is to combine sin...

Gods, I wish the world was full of passive women.He thought for a moment longer, then scowled. On se...

Shakespeare is to me the purest voice of nature, and he does no meddle with nature. His plays provid...

The story concerns the reason why we love to fall in love. Beauty spins and the mind moves. To catch...

Novels institutionalize the ruse of eros. It becomes a narrative texture of sustained incongruence, ...

When an individual appreciates that he alone is responsible for the content and coherence of his per...

As Venus within Eros does not really aim at pleasure, so Eros does not aim at happiness. We may thin...

At home, besides being Peter or Jane, we also bear a general character; husband or wife, brother or ...

The husband is the head of the wife just in so far as he is to her what Christ is to the Church - re...

The event of falling in love is of such a nature that we are right to reject as intolerable the idea...

Christianity gave Eros poison to drink; he did not die of it, certainly, but degenerated to Vice.

Eros has degenerated; he began by introducing order and harmony, and now he brings back chaos.

The revolution is for the sake of life, not death.

Lawrence is the supreme poet of Eros. No recriminations, no reproaches, no guilt, no 'morality'. For...