--- title: "1 Eat Love Quotes By Hélène Cixous" description: "1 Eat Love quotes by Hélène Cixous. Plus more from Hélène Cixous and more Eat Love sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/52a/h-l-ne-cixous-3823_fear_for-us-eating-and-being-eaten-belong-to_2546123.jpg" --- > [“For us, eating and being eaten belong to the terrible secret of love. We love only the person we can eat. The person we hate we ‘can’t swallow.’ That one makes us vomit. Even our friends are inedible. If we…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/h-l-ne-cixous/for-us-eating-and-being-eaten-belong-to-the-terrible-secret-of-love/) [Hélène Cixous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/h-l-ne-cixous/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/52a/h-l-ne-cixous-3823_fear_for-us-eating-and-being-eaten-belong-to_2546123.jpg) ## More by Hélène Cixous > [“(Because Jonah’s real story is the one never told: never was he as stupendously happy as during those three days and three nights of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/h-l-ne-cixous/because-jonah-s-real-story-is-the-one-never-told-never-was-he-as/) [Hélène Cixous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/h-l-ne-cixous/) > [“I, too, overflow; my desires have invented new desires, my body knows unheard-of songs. Time and again I, too, have felt so full of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/h-l-ne-cixous/i-too-overflow-my-desires-have-invented-new-desires-my-body-knows/) [Hélène Cixous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/h-l-ne-cixous/) > [What happens: events interiors, snatch them from the cradle, from the source. I want to watch watching arrive. I want to watch arrivances. I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/h-l-ne-cixous/what-happens-events-interiors-snatch-them-from-the-cradle-from-the/) [Helene Cixous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/h-l-ne-cixous/) > [“And I? I drink, I burn, I gather dreams. And sometimes I tell a story. Because Promethea asks me for a bowl of words…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/h-l-ne-cixous/and-i-i-drink-i-burn-i-gather-dreams-and-sometimes-i-tell-a-story/) [Hélène Cixous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/h-l-ne-cixous/) > [“The author of what I describe is not myself, it is the Other. First of all it is you, it is the woman, it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/h-l-ne-cixous/the-author-of-what-i-describe-is-not-myself-it-is-the-other-first-of/) [Hélène Cixous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/h-l-ne-cixous/) > [Perhaps what I do not manage to operate rapidly enough is the passage between the outside and the inside.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/h-l-ne-cixous/perhaps-what-i-do-not-manage-to-operate-rapidly-enough-is-the-passage/) [Helene Cixous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/h-l-ne-cixous/) > [“To fly/steal is woman’s gesture, to steal into language to make it fly.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/h-l-ne-cixous/to-fly-steal-is-woman-s-gesture-to-steal-into-language-to-make-it-fly/) [Hélène Cixous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/h-l-ne-cixous/) > [“Those I love go in the direction of what they call the last hour—what Clarice Lispector calls, “the hour of the star,” “the hour…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/h-l-ne-cixous/those-i-love-go-in-the-direction-of-what-they-call-the-last-hour-what/) [Hélène Cixous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/h-l-ne-cixous/) > [“...and this morning I am without fire, my marrow is ash, I am very sad.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/h-l-ne-cixous/and-this-morning-i-am-without-fire-my-marrow-is-ash-i-am-very-sad/) [Hélène Cixous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/h-l-ne-cixous/) > [Me too, I make do, I anoint what cannot be fixed.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/h-l-ne-cixous/me-too-i-make-do-i-anoint-what-cannot-be-fixed/) [Helene Cixous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/h-l-ne-cixous/) > [“Writing, in its noblest function, is the attempt to unerase, to unearth, to find the primitive picture again, ours, the one that frightens us.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/h-l-ne-cixous/writing-in-its-noblest-function-is-the-attempt-to-unerase-to-unearth/) [Hélène Cixous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/h-l-ne-cixous/) > [“Here I am now. And it is hell. Paradise? Yes, I still am here, but who? only myself, with my small waist, my small…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/h-l-ne-cixous/here-i-am-now-and-it-is-hell-paradise-yes-i-still-am-here-but-who/) [Hélène Cixous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/h-l-ne-cixous/) > [“Knowledge from experience: the heart goes blind because the need is stronger than anything else. Your ego is blind, your id is eager. It…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/h-l-ne-cixous/knowledge-from-experience-the-heart-goes-blind-because-the-need-is/) [Hélène Cixous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/h-l-ne-cixous/) > [“I see nothing. I do not move. It is an empty time, animal time, vigilant, I am submerged, under the earth and under time.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/h-l-ne-cixous/i-see-nothing-i-do-not-move-it-is-an-empty-time-animal-time-vigilant/) [Hélène Cixous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/h-l-ne-cixous/) > [“Go, fly, swim, bound descend, cross, love the unknown, love the uncertain, love what has not yet been seen, love no one, whom you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/h-l-ne-cixous/go-fly-swim-bound-descend-cross-love-the-unknown-love-the-uncertain/) [Hélène Cixous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/h-l-ne-cixous/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/eat-love/h-l-ne-cixous/#itemlist", "name": "1 Eat Love Quotes By Hélène Cixous", "numberOfItems": 1, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“For us, eating and being eaten belong to the terrible secret of love. 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