Analogies Quote by Anais Nin

The curse of the romantic is a greed for dreams, an intensity of expectation that, in the end, diminishes the reality.

— Marya Mannes

Some dreams we have are nothing else but dreams, Unnatural and full of contradictions; Yet others of our most romantic schemes, Are something more…

— Thomas Hood

Romantic love is the subconscious pursuit of an orgasim...

— Melchor Lim

One might point to the great illumination that has resulted from Freud's analysis of the abracadabra of our dreams. No one can any longer…

— Walter Lippmann

Dreams are distorted representations of desire. So are dream- analyses.

— Mason Cooley

Romanticism is not just about being in a fixed state of endless beauty, because you can't live like that or live on that, that's…

— Elizabeth Peyton

According to me [Sigmund ] Freud did not notice that the dream expresses the inner experiences in a symbolic form,resembling in that, poetry or…

— Erich Fromm

The paradox of romantic love -- that what one possesses, one can no longer desire -- was at work.

— Elizabeth Bowen

And now, if we try to assign a value, in and of itself, outside its relations to the dream and with error, to classical…

— Michel Foucault

Until recently, we regarded love as supernatural. We were willing to study the brain chemistry of fear and depression and anger but not love.

— Helen Fisher

The phenomenon of dreaming ... helped to build up the notion of an unreal or spiritual world; and in general, all the conditions of…

— H. P. Lovecraft

[Sigmund ] Freud assumes that every dream represents the satisfaction of adesire and in the last analysis, of a sexual desire that has its…

— Erich Fromm