Eros Quotes

All the concessions we make to Eros are holes in our desire for the absolute. (Emil Cioran)
I must tell you that we artists cannot tread the path of Beauty without Eros keeping company with us and appointing himself as our guide. View quote
Thomas Mann
The precarious ontological link between Logos and Eros is broken, and scientific rationality emerges as essentially neutral. View quote
Herbert Marcuse
Care is a state in which something does matter; care is the opposite of apathy. Care is the necessary source of eros, the source of human tenderness. View quote
Rollo May
The daimonic is any natural function which has the power to take over the whole person. Sex and eros, anger and rage, and the craving for power are examples. The daimonic can be either creative or destructive and is normally both. View quote
Rollo May
There is no art without Eros. View quote
Max Frisch
Fear and destructiveness are the major emotional sources of fascism, eros belongs mainly to democracy. View quote
Theodor Adorno
Defenceless under the night Our world in stupor lies; Yet, dotted everywhere, Ironic points of light Flash out wherever the Just Exchange their messages: May I, composed like them Of Eros and of dust, Beleaguered by the same Negation and despair, Show an affirming flame. View quote
W. H. Auden
No one should forget: Eros alone can fulfill life; knowledge, never. Only Eros makes sense; knowledge is empty infinity; - for thoughts, there is always time; life has its time; there is no thought that comes too late; any desire can become a regret. View quote
Emil Cioran
Our Being is Becoming, not stasis. Our Science is Utopia, our Reality is Eros, our Desire is Revolution. View quote
Murray Bookchin
The discussion of the sexual problem is only a somewhat crude prelude to a far deeper question, and that is the question of the psychological relationship between the sexes. In comparison with this the other pales into insignificance, and with it we enter the real domain of woman. Woman's psychology is founded on the principle of Eros, the great binder and loosener, whereas from ancient times the ruling principle ascribed to man is Logos. (Carl Jung)
Eros will have naked bodies; Friendship naked personalities. View quote
C. S. Lewis
The de-eroticization of the world, a companion to its disenchantment ... seems to result from a combination of causes our democratic regime and its tendencies toward leveling and self-protection, a reductionist-materialist science that inevitably interprets eros as sex, and the atmosphere generated by "the death of God" and of the subordinate god, Eros. View quote
Allan Bloom
The old view was that delicacy of language was part of the nature, the sacred nature, of eros and that to speak about it in any other way would be to misunderstand it. What has disappeared is the risk and the hope of human connectedness embedded in eros. Ours is a language that reduces the longing for an other to the need for individual, private satisfaction and safety. View quote
Allan Bloom
Eros is not tranquil - it gives us spikes of happiness rather than a constant feeling of wellbeing. It's the love we feel at the beginning of a love affair and corresponds to the expression 'falling in love' since it is as involuntary an impulse as a physical fall. View quote
François Lelord
May the strength of Ares and wisdom of Athena see you through. (Eros) And may Hades roast your hoary soul. (Julian) View quote
Sherrilyn Kenyon
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 that we're okay so we can come and ooh and aah over the babies. (Eros) View quote
Sherrilyn Kenyon
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, then work our way up? (Julian) View quote
Sherrilyn Kenyon
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 years? So, instead of a friendly, brotherly hug, I get slugged. (Eros) View quote
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Have you two made friendly with the privates yet? (Eros) View quote
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Sad is Eros, builder of cities, And weeping anarchic Aphrodite. (W. H. Auden)
Eros has shaken my mind, wind sweeping down the mountain on oaks. View quote
Sappho
A vehement eros runs through the Universe. It is like the ether: harder than steel, softer than air. It cuts through and passes beyond all things, it flees and escapes. View quote
Nikos Kazantzakis
I may not speak till Eros' torch is dim, The god is bitter and will have it so. View quote
Sara Teasdale
Never had he felt the joy of the word more sweetly, never had he known so clearly that Eros dwells in language. View quote
Thomas Mann