“Eros, again now, the loosener of limbs troubles me, Bittersweet, sly, uncontrollable creature….” — Sappho Copy Share Image
Fear and destructiveness are the major emotional sources of fascism, eros belongs mainly to democracy. — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image
“Il cristianesimo dette da bere il veleno a Eros. Questi non ne morì, ma ben degenerò, in vizio.” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
If you want to be shot down by the Arrows of Eros, you should get rid of the iron shield called Logic! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
Eros harrows my heart: wild gales sweeping desolate mountains, uprooting oaks. — Sappho Copy Share Image
“Eros had not kissed her like he didn’t like girls. Her conclusion was they were bisexual.” — Milly Taiden Copy Share Image
“The Greeks have three words for love, and that night we knew them all.” — Luna McNamara Copy Share Image
“Your arrows may strike all things else, Apollo, but mine shall strike you.” — Thomas Bulfinch Copy Share Image
Eros is an ego-overwhelming, boundary dissolving, breakthrough creating force scripted into human life that is pretty intrinsically psychedelic. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Our life-style contains more Thanatos than Eros, for egotism, exploitation, deception, obsession and addiction have more place in us than eroticism, joy,… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
The precarious ontological link between Logos and Eros is broken, and scientific rationality emerges as essentially neutral. — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
“I feel upsettingly denatured. If Penélope Cruz were one of my nurses, I wouldn’t even notice. In the war against Thanatos, if… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
“There is a supernal intelligence behind sexual arousal, the true purpose of which is to create for us ecstatic experiences of our… — John Maxwell Taylor Copy Share Image
Very different from eros is philia, a serene love much more akin to friendship, with its reciprocal kindnesses. You love each other… — Francois Lelord Copy Share Image
Now Eros makes a man really want, not a woman, but one particular woman. In some mysterious but quite indisputable fashion the… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
One cannot serve this Eros without becoming a stranger in society as it is today; one cannot commit oneself to this form… — Klaus Mann Copy Share Image
“ Still hiding, Cupid said, smashing another skeleton to pieces. You do not have the strength. "Nico," Jason managed to say, "it's… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
“Eros, Lord Phanes, Protogonus, god of love, of Chaos, Gaea, and Tartarus, be merciful: bless these remains of a bear… — E. Llewellyn Copy Share Image
If a seperate personal Paradise exists for each of us mine must irreparably be planted with trees of words which the wind… — Odysseas Elytis Copy Share Image
“ Poor Nico di Angelo. The god's voice was tinged with disappointment. Do you know what you want, much less what I… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
The daimonic is any natural function which has the power to take over the whole person. Sex and eros, anger and rage,… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
Civilization is a process in the service of Eros, whose purpose is to combine single human individuals, and after that families, then… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Generally, the shaking is consciously felt in its positive aspects — as the wonderful new heaven and earth which love with its… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
“With good reason, love's messengers, Eros and Kama, are armed with bows and long-distance arrows. No being, god or mortal, can choose… — Diane Wolkstein Copy Share Image
Eros is an issue of boundaries. He exists because certain boundaries do. In the interval between reach and grasp, between glance and… — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
“Eros had slept soundly after the tryst with his lovely secretary at the Paradise Hotel.And as his wife, Helen,slept beside him snoring,… — Nicholas Chong Copy Share Image
When we "fall" in love, as the expressive verb puts it, the world shakes and changes around us, not only in the… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
“The husband is the head of the wife just in so far as he is to her what Christ is to the… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Of course, one might object that it is impossible for one person, one woman, to represent the ideal of both agape and… — Sylvain Reynard Copy Share Image
“Now you can understand me: if I love order, it's not —as with so many others—the mark of a character subjected to… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
The concept that really gets the goat of the gay-hater, the idea that really spins their melon and sickens their stomachs is… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
“Preferential love seeks only those who share one's passions--the more similar the lovers the more fervent the love. By contrast, neighbour love… — Stephen Backhouse Copy Share Image
