There is always tension in women's gymnastics between athleticism, grace, performance, and eros. — Meghan O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Be passionate. Generate the magnetic power of eros through sensual, mental, and spiritual delight. — John Friend Copy Share Image
“Love, the phenomenal act of canceling self in favor of the very same self.” — Giannis Delimitsos Copy Share Image
the dullard sees no eros in fine champagne; the sorcerer can fall intoxicated on a glass of water — Hakim Bey Copy Share Image
Eros seizes and shakes my very soul like the wind on the mountain shaking ancient oaks. — Sappho Copy Share Image
“Mind out of the gutter, Suze. Eros is only one kind of love, eh? Ancient Greeks recognised four.” — Peter Watts Copy Share Image
“Like a gale smiting an oak On mountainous terrain, Eros, with a stroke, Shattered my brain.” — Sappho Copy Share Image
“Relaxing me from head to feet Love masters me, the bitter sweet O'er thy limbs breathing; Yea, Eros now, the god born… — Edna St. Vincent Millay Copy Share Image
Test of the poet is knowledge of love, For Eros is older than Saturn or Jove; Never was poet, of late or… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Two things of opposite natures seem to depend / One on another, as Logos depends / On Eros, day on night, the… — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
“So now I get the scepter?" Jason asked. Cupid laughed. Unfortunately, you could not wield it. Only a child of the Underworld… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
“You’re too focused. Too high-strung. Too…” Eros trails off as he continues to look into Levi’s blue eyes. “Too caught up with… — Shanora Williams Copy Share Image
Our Being is Becoming, not stasis. Our Science is Utopia, our Reality is Eros, our Desire is Revolution. — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
“Tell me, did you summon me just so you could beat the crap out of me? Or is there a more productive… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
May the strength of Ares and wisdom of Athena see you through. (Eros) And may Hades roast your hoary soul. (Julian) — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
“Eros and Thanatos were always the source of his inspiration, even though, from this time on, they usually appear in the guise… — Gilles Néret Copy Share Image
The de-eroticization of the world, a companion to its disenchantment ... seems to result from a combination of causes our democratic regime… — Allan Bloom Copy Share Image
“They say that nothing can stand against such a man, for the one gun – that marked Mutiny – deals instant death,… — Hal Duncan Copy Share Image
No one should forget: Eros alone can fulfill life; knowledge, never. Only Eros makes sense; knowledge is empty infinity;––for thoughts, there is… — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
Eros is not tranquil-it gives us spikes of happiness rather than a constant feeling of wellbeing. It's the love we feel at… — François Lelord Copy Share Image
Novels institutionalize the ruse of eros. It becomes a narrative texture of sustained incongruence, emotional and cognitive. It permits the reader to… — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
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“In fact, neither reader nor writer nor lover achieves such consumation. The words we read and the words we write never say… — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
“I tend to interpret that whole 'everyone's wife is a Mossad agent' thing in a more sort of metaphorical way--that people you're… — Mark Leyner Copy Share Image
The event of falling in love is of such a nature that we are right to reject as intolerable the idea that… — CS Lewis Copy Share Image
“Eros does not aim at happiness. We may think he does, but when he is brought to the test it proves otherwise.… — Christopher Grau Copy Share Image
Ways of loving from a distance, mating without even touching-Amor platonicus! The ladder of love one is expected to climb higher and… — Elif Safak Copy Share Image
Pleasure and pain at once register upon the lover, inasmuch as the desirability of the love object derives, in part, from its… — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
“Eros is the drive for union and reproduction in the biological realm. Even in the birds and animals, we see the "desire… — Rollo May Copy Share Image
“Eros (or call it lust if you will), is like a beautiful, magnificent Afghan Hound! A pure white Afghan Hound commanding respect… — C. JoyBell C Copy Share Image
“A pettos speckled with gold ajiggle with a fremitus from the heart touches me like Athena's hoolet mewing in uncertain dark. So… — Guy Davenport Copy Share Image
Christianity gave Eros poison to drink; he did not die of it, certainly, but degenerated to Vice. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Eros is very close to death. And both things, in a way, balance each other. — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
“There is one Psyche for every Eros, an Elizabeth for every Darcy, and an Abby for every Travis.” — Erin Noelle Copy Share Image
Eros has degenerated; he began by introducing order and harmony, and now he brings back chaos. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
All the concessions we make to Eros are holes in our desire for the absolute. — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
