Frienship is eros...without wings

Those who cannot conceive of Friendship as a substantive love but only as a disguise or elaboration of Eros betray the fact that they…

— Anonymous

There are all kinds of friends you make in life... But there's something different about someone who spreads their wings with you.

— Mary E. Pearson

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

— C.S. Lewis

“It is always astonishing how love can strike. No context is love-proof, no convention or commitment impervious. Even a lifestyle which is perfectly insulated,…

— Esther Perel

“Ah, Vitaly, we all come from Eros." ~Sel Menach”

— Orson Scott Card

“He smiled and smoothed my hair back from my forehead. He did not say a word, nor did he need to, because his affection…

— April Bostic

“ Poor Nico di Angelo. The god's voice was tinged with disappointment. Do you know what you want, much less what I want? My…

— Rick Riordan

“After he cut off their genitals, Chronos threw them into the sea, where they floated in a "white foam." Out of this foam‒or "Aphros”…

— Charles River Editors

The precarious ontological link between Logos and Eros is broken, and scientific rationality emerges as essentially neutral.

— Herbert Marcuse

Writing, playing, composing, painting, reading, listening, looking-all require that we submit to being swept away by Eros, to a transformation of self of the…

— Stephen Nachmanovitch

As Venus within Eros does not really aim at pleasure, so Eros does not aim at happiness. We may think he does, but when…

— Anonymous

“Eros is my sun, Ares is my fire, but Hephaestus is my rock, my foundation, and no matter where I go or what I…

— Aimee Carter

“I may now add that civilization is a process in the service of Eros, whose purpose is to combine single human individuals, and after…

— Sigmund Freud

Better to be miserable with her than happy without her. Let our hearts break provided they break together. If the voice within us does…

— Anonymous

Why did you hit him? (Grace) Because it gave me a great deal of pleasure. (Julian) Nice. You haven’t seen me in what, two…

— Sherrilyn Kenyon