Intense mutual erotic love, love which involves with the flesh all the most refined sexual being of the spirit, which reveals and… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
As a grad student and later as a writer, I have found it hard to sustain the pure, almost erotic love of… — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
Classic romantic love is an emotional attraction between two individuals in which they may share a heightened awareness of mutual adoration. Erotic… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
The kind of love that God has for us, I think, is of an infinite longing for union, and the kind of… — Kevin Hart Copy Share Image
“This principle - that your spouse should be capable of becoming your best friend - is a game changer when you address… — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
In erotic love, two people who were separate become one. In motherly love, two people who were one become separate. The mother… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Eros seizes and shakes my very soul like the wind on the mountain shaking ancient oaks. — Sappho Copy Share Image
The [book of the bible] Song Of Songs is an amazing erotic love poem that the church has tried very hard not… — Alan Green Copy Share Image
“We know God by cultivating a relationship, not by understanding a concept. The relation constitutes the very subjectivity of of our existence.… — Christos Yannaras Copy Share Image
“When the two people who thus discover that they are on the same secret road are of different sexes, the friendship which… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Those who cannot conceive Friendship as a substantive love but only as a disguise or elaboration of Eros betray the fact that… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Erotic love, if it is love, has one premise. That I love from the essence of my being—and experience the other person… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
“So now begins the first war with Cordelia' in which I retreat and thereby teach her to be victorious as she pursues… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
“The majority enjoy a young girl as they enjoy a glass of champagne, at one effervescent moment-oh, yes, that is really beautiful,… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
“What I have called Appreciative love is no basic element in Affection. It usually needs absence or bereavement to set us praising… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Erotic love is a threat to the state, the church and the family in that it leads to a more primary union,… — Rod Dubey Copy Share Image
“The faithful read the gopis’ ecstatic and erotic love for Krishna as an allegory for the soul’s longing for God, a pining… — Gaiutra Bahadur Copy Share Image
it's about a love song to myself, and a love song to the universe, kind of like the way that Song of… — Larkin Grimm Copy Share Image
Erotic love begins with separateness, and ends in oneness. Motherly love begins with oneness, and leads to separateness. — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
“Sure she would want that again—tenderness compassion slow erotic lovemaking—but not tonight. Tonight she wanted to experience her transformation she wanted to… — Tessa Dawn Copy Share Image
I find the selectivity of erotic love - the choice of this man or this woman - much more intelligible if liking… — Mortimer Adler Copy Share Image