Death Quote by Georges Bataille Download Open image “Eroticism, it may be said, is assenting to life up to the point of death” — Georges Bataille ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Assenting Assenting Life Death Eroticism Eroticism Said Inspirational Life Love May Said Said Assenting
“We rehearse for the big death through the little death of orgasm, through erotic living. Death as transfiguration” — Peter Redgrove Copy Share Image
Death induces the sensual person to say: Let us eat and drink, because tomorrow we shall die - but this is sensuality's cowardly lust… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
“For the erotic is not a question only of what we do; it is a question of how acutely and fully we can feel… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
What does physical eroticism signify if not a violation of the very being of its practitioners? – A violation bordering on death, bordering on murder? — Georges Bataille Copy Share Image
“think of sex as the vital antagonist to death—isn’t the orgasm the primal spark of life? I” — Irvin D. Yalom Copy Share Image
Once we begin to feel deeply all the aspects of our lives, we begin to demand from ourselves and from our life-pursuits that they… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
“We have gone far in our public places to push death aside, to consign it to a dusty corner, but in the wilderness it… — Rick Yancey Copy Share Image
“Erotic pleasure, derived from the most intimate physical contact, thrives on the paradox that only by keeping alive the strangeness of that other person… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
Death is present every day in our lives. It's not that I take pleasure in the morbid fascination of it, but it is a… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
My thoughts are crowded with death and it draws so oddly on the sexual that I am confused to be attracted by, in effect,… — Thom Gunn Copy Share Image
I think that knowledge enslaves us, that at the base of all knowledge there is a servility, the acceptation of a way of life… — Georges Bataille Copy Share Image
“The absent and inert girl hanging dreamless from my arms is no more foreign to me than the door or window through which I… — Georges Bataille Copy Share Image
Pleasure only starts once the worm has got into the fruit; to become delightful, happiness must be tainted with poison. — Georges Bataille Copy Share Image
If I want to realize totality in my consciousness, I have to relate myself to an immense, ludicrous, and painful convulsion of all of… — Georges Bataille Copy Share Image
“Our only real pleasure is to squander our resources to no purpose, just as if a wound were bleeding away inside us; we always… — Georges Bataille Copy Share Image
[F]or academic men to be happy, the universe would have to take shape. All of philosophy has no other goal: it is a matter… — Georges Bataille Copy Share Image
I remain in intolerable non-knowledge, which has no other way out than ecstasy itself. — Georges Bataille Copy Share Image
[Zarathustra] never abandoned the watchword of not having any end, not serving a cause, because, as he knew, causes pluck off the wings we… — Georges Bataille Copy Share Image
“Pathetic creatures on their knees... Tirelessly, naively repeating, "Don't take our word for it! Alas, we're not all that logical. We say God–though in… — Georges Bataille Copy Share Image
The sovereign being is burdened with a servitude that crushes him, and the condition of free men is deliberate servility. — Georges Bataille Copy Share Image
The total person is first disclosed ... in areas of life that are lived frivolously. — Georges Bataille Copy Share Image
Thought does not ennoble us and neither does it differentiate humans from other animals. — Georges Bataille Copy Share Image
“He wondered how it was fair that your dying should depend so much on when you were born.” — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
What sets worlds in motion is the interplay of differences, their attractions and repulsions. Life is plurality, death is uniformity. By suppressing differences and… — Octavio Paz Copy Share Image
Most of us are convinced that we are our egos, which is who we think we are. The ego is part of our incarnation.… — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
I do not want to live at the cost of the life even of a snake. I should let him bite me to death… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
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With multiplayer, permanent death, and an ever-changing world to explore and conquer, 'A Valley Without Wind' might be the place you're looking for if… — Rob Manuel Copy Share Image
“What did you see?” she asked gently. His brow furrowed, as if he could not understand the question. Then his eyes turned to the… — J. Anthony Torino Copy Share Image
Those whose life is long still strive for gain, and for all mortals all things take second place to money. — Sophocles Copy Share Image
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“You must understand the pain and grief of losing someone is nothing more than a function of survival.” — Steven Cooper Copy Share Image
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