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
Art, it seems to me, doesn't need freedom so much as it needs courage and love - some would call it 'soul'… — Michael Leunig 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
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
“Is this guy Love or Death?" Jason growled. Ask your friends, Cupid said. Frank, Hazel, and Percy met my counterpart, Thanatos. We… — Rick Riordan 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 remains largely egocentric...it is a longing for union with an object which will fulfil the promise of self-completion....[Agape] is theocentric and… — Andrew Vincent Copy Share Image
God's love, and hence the love with which we come to love God, is eros and agape at once: a desire for… — David Bentley Hart Copy Share Image
In America the chief accusation seems to be one of "Eroticism." This is odd, rather puzzling to my mind. Which Eros? Eros… — D. H. Lawrence 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
It is perhaps true that that sort of sexual energy wanes over time - as the original impetus loses its luster. And… — Micheline Aharonian Marcom Copy Share Image
The discussion of the sexual problem is only a somewhat crude prelude to a far deeper question, and that is the question… — Carl Jung 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 is very close to death. And both things, in a way, balance each other. — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
The Green-eyed Monster causes much woe, but the absence of this ugly serpent argues the presence of a corpse whose name is… — Minna Antrim Copy Share Image
Um, Dr. Alexander, there’s a couple out here who say they’re related to you. They…um…they’re biker people. (Nurse) Hey, Julian. Tell Attila… — Sherrilyn Kenyon 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
In mauve sea-orchids as in her striking earlier book Guardians of the Secret, Lila Zemborain brings into relationship the viscera of the… — Forrest Gander Copy Share Image
“The Greeks have three words for love, and that night we knew them all.” — Luna McNamara 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
Friendship is by its very nature freer of deceit than any other relationship we can know because it is the bond least… — Francine du Plessix Gray 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
