Best Eros Quotes
58 Eros quotes by 36 unique authors
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Gods, I wish the world was full of passive women.He thougt for a moment longer, then scowled. On second thoughts, what a nightmare that'd be.…
— Steven Erikson
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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 thousand…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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Don’t start on that. When I offered you her gifts, you told me to shove them straight up my back orifice. (Eros)
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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You want the bad news, or the really bad news? (Eros) Oh, let’s see…how about we make my day special, and start with the worst,…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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Have you two made friendly with the privates yet? (Eros)
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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May the strength of Ares and wisdom of Athena see you through. (Eros) And may Hades roast your hoary soul. (Julian)
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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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 the Hun here…
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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Eros has degenerated; he began by introducing order and harmony, and now he brings back chaos.
— George Eliot
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The concept that really gets the goat of the gay-hater, the idea that really spins their melon and sickens their stomachs is that most terrible…
— Stephen Fry
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At home, besides being Peter or Jane, we also bear a general character; husband or wife, brother or sister, chief, colleague or subordinate. Not among…
— C.S. Lewis
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As Venus within Eros does not really aim at pleasure, so Eros does not aim at happiness. We may think he does, but when he…
— C.S. Lewis
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I think Eros should be dirty. In Greek legend, as I'm sure you are aware, he fell in love with the minor deity Psyche. It…
— Stephen Fry
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Christianity gave Eros poison to drink; he did not die of it, certainly, but degenerated to Vice.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Eros is an issue of boundaries. He exists because certain boundaries do. In the interval between reach and grasp, between glance and counterglance, between ‘I…
— Anne Carson
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Those who cannot conceive of Friendship as a substantive love but only as a disguise or elaboration of Eros betray the fact that they have…
— C.S. Lewis
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To be running breathlessly, but not yet arrived, is itself delightful, a suspended moment of living hope.
— Anne Carson
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Novels institutionalize the ruse of eros. It becomes a narrative texture of sustained incongruence, emotional and cognitive. It permits the reader to stand in triangular…
— Anne Carson
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The words we read and words we write never say exactly what we mean. The people we love are never just as we desire them.…
— Anne Carson
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Please tell me your master isn't Aeolus." "That airhead?" Favonius snorted. "No, of course not." "He means Eros." Nico's voice turned edgy. "Cupid, in Latin."…
— Rick Riordan
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Nico, you can do this," Jason said. "It might be embarrassing, but it's for the scepter." Nico didn't look convinced. In fact he looked like…
— Rick Riordan
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Nico's voice was like broken glass. "I- I wasn't in love with Annabeth." "You were jealous of her," Jason said. "That's why you didn't want…
— Rick Riordan
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When we "fall" in love, as the expressive verb puts it, the world shakes and changes around us, not only in the way it looks…
— Rollo May
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Eros is very close to death. And both things, in a way, balance each other.
— Isabel Allende
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Very different from eros is philia, a serene love much more akin to friendship, with its reciprocal kindnesses. You love each other for the happy…
— Unknown Author
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Eros is everywhere. It is what binds.
— John Updike
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