Binds Quote by John Updike

Eros is very close to death. And both things, in a way, balance each other.

— Isabel Allende

Eros is an issue of boundaries. He exists because certain boundaries do. In the interval between reach and grasp, between glance and counterglance, between…

— Anne Carson

Eros is an ego-overwhelming, boundary dissolving, breakthrough creating force scripted into human life that is pretty intrinsically psychedelic.

— Terence McKenna

Eros is a unique experience but it is not love itself. It bridges the gap between sexuality and love; it spans the chasm between…

— John Pierrakos

You can't deny Eros. Eros wills trike, like lightning. Our human defenses are frail, ludicrous. Like plasterboard houses in a hurricane. Your triumph is…

— Joyce Carol Oates

“Eros is the drive for union and reproduction in the biological realm. Even in the birds and animals, we see the "desire of procreation,"…

— Rollo May

The spark of eros provides color and flavor to delight in our sensuality. Without generating this creative juice, many people feel uninspired and dry…

— John Friend

All the concessions we make to Eros are holes in our desire for the absolute.

— Emile M. Cioran

The de-eroticization of the world, a companion to its disenchantment ... seems to result from a combination of causes our democratic regime and its…

— Allan Bloom

Eros has degenerated; he began by introducing order and harmony, and now he brings back chaos.

— George Eliot

“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 selfless. It…

— Andrew Vincent

Eros doomed! I doubt it...eros seems to drive most relationships, and not just those between lovers. Erotic energy is a big powerful force, it…

— Micheline Aharonian Marcom