Ancient greek Quote by Peter Watts

“The Greeks have three words for love, and that night we knew them all.”

— Luna McNamara

“Love affairs and marriages stand or fall on this secret. Familiarity and the pedestrian realities of everyday life are the enemies of eros.”

— Siri Hustvedt

“Eros is my sun, Ares is my fire, but Hephaestus is my rock, my foundation, and no matter where I go or what I…

— Aimee Carter

“The ancient Oracle said that I was the wisest of all the Greeks. It is because I alone, of all the Greeks, know that…

— Socrates

“Love, I saw now, was an exterior spiritual force that swept through our bodies in the symbolic forms of eros, then bound us materially,…

— Andrew Klavan

“I never thought Greek philosophy could make a damn bit of sense to me. And most of it didn't, but those words just seemed…

— Tessa Dare

“The story is told of Socrates walking through the market in Athens, with its groaning abundance of options, and saying to himself, "Who would…

— Os Guinness

“It's a very Greek idea, and a very profound one. Beauty is terror. Whatever we call beautiful, we quiver before it.”

— Donna Tartt

“It may be prodigious, but it's all Greek to me!”

— Hergé

“Zeus’s line may be powerful, but even Zeus was helpless against Eros. Unless you’d like me to take you into the men’s room and…

— Jenna Black

“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

“In fact, neither reader nor writer nor lover achieves such consumation. The words we read and the words we write never say exactly what…

— Anne Carson