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There is no art without Eros. -- Max Frisch
Eros will have naked bodies; Friendship naked personalities. -- C. S. Lewis
Eros is everywhere. It is what binds. -- John Updike
Eros harrows my heart: wild gales sweeping desolate mountains, uprooting oaks. -- Sappho
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Eros is very close to death. And both things, in a way, balance each other. -- Isabel Allende
Eros has degenerated; he began by introducing order and harmony, and now he brings back chaos. -- George Eliot
Christianity gave Eros poison to drink; he did not die of it, certainly, but degenerated to Vice. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
The Green-eyed Monster causes much woe, but the absence of this ugly serpent argues the presence of a corpse whose name is Eros. -- Minna Antrim
Art, it seems to me, doesn't need freedom so much as it needs courage and love - some would call it 'soul' or 'Eros.' -- Michael Leunig
For 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. -- Thomas Mann
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 never had a Friend. -- C. S. Lewis
Better to be miserable with her than happy without her. Let our hearts break provided they break together. If the voice within us does not say this it is not the voice of Eros. -- C. S. Lewis
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. The two symbola never perfectly match. Eros is in between. -- Anne Carson
What are the sources of poetry? Love and death and the paradox of love and death. All poetry from the beginning is about Eros and Thanatos. Those are the only subjects. And how Eros and Thanatos interweave. -- Erica Jong
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. -- W. H. Auden
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. -- Francois Lelord
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. -- Francois Lelord
Have you two made friendly with the privates yet? (Eros) -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
Eros seizes and shakes my very soul like the wind on the mountain -- Sappho
All the concessions we make to Eros are holes in our desire for the absolute. -- Emile M. Cioran
I spit honey out of my mouth: nothing is second-best after the sweet of Eros. -- Hilda Doolittle
Eros seizes and shakes my very soul like the wind on the mountain shaking ancient oaks. -- Sappho
The precarious ontological link between Logos and Eros is broken, and scientific rationality emerges as essentially neutral. -- Herbert Marcuse
Our Being is Becoming, not stasis. Our Science is Utopia, our Reality is Eros, our Desire is Revolution. -- Murray Bookchin
Eros is an ego-overwhelming, boundary dissolving, breakthrough creating force scripted into human life that is pretty intrinsically psychedelic. -- Terence McKenna
May the strength of Ares and wisdom of Athena see you through. (Eros) And may Hades roast your hoary soul. (Julian) -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
If you want to be shot down by the Arrows of Eros, you should get rid of the iron shield called Logic! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
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
Our life-style contains more Thanatos than Eros, for egotism, exploitation, deception, obsession and addiction have more place in us than eroticism, joy, generosity and spontaneity. -- Germaine Greer
Eros is a unique experience but it is not love itself. It bridges the gap between sexuality and love; it spans the chasm between two people. -- John Pierrakos
For 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. -- Thomas Mann
One rational voice is dumb: over a grave The household of Impulse mourns one dearly loved. Sad is Eros, builder of cities, And weeping anarchic Aphrodite. -- W. H. Auden
One cannot serve this Eros without becoming a stranger in society as it is today; one cannot commit oneself to this form of love without incurring a mortal wound. -- Klaus Mann
Two things of opposite natures seem to depend / One on another, as Logos depends / On Eros, day on night, the imagined On the real. / This is the origin of change. -- Wallace Stevens
Test of the poet is knowledge of love, For Eros is older than Saturn or Jove; Never was poet, of late or of yore, Who was not tremulous with love-lore. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Greeks, it will be recalled, regarded Eros, the god of love, as the eldest of the gods; but also as the youngest, born fresh and dewy-eyed in every living heart. -- Joseph Campbell
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) -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
Writing, playing, composing, painting, reading, listening, looking-all require that we submit to being swept away by Eros, to a transformation of self of the kind that happens when we fall in love. -- Stephen Nachmanovitch
Now Eros makes a man really want, not a woman, but one particular woman. In some mysterious but quite indisputable fashion the lover desires the Beloved herself, not the pleasure she can give. -- C. S. Lewis
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) -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
Just because a thing can't be done doesn't mean it can't be did. We all look into mirrors and see phantoms. Our error is our Eros. Why is there something instead of nothing? The answer is reckless and surreal. -- Dean Young
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) -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
In America the chief accusation seems to be one of "Eroticism." This is odd, rather puzzling to my mind. Which Eros? Eros of the jaunty "amours," or Eros of the sacred mysteries? And if the latter, why accuse, why not respect, even venerate? -- D. H. Lawrence
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 Friends. It is an affair of disentangled, or stripped, minds. Eros will have naked bodies; Friendship naked personalities. -- C. S. Lewis
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Patriotism is a tricky way that neutralizes the life instinct -- Eros; you give your life as a sacrifice for others who never share even their wealth with you. The irony is that even their wealth seems to be more valuable for them than your life -- Elmar Hussein
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." Favonius smiled. "Very good, Nico di Angelo. I'm glad to see you again, by the way. It's been a long time. -- Rick Riordan
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 in perfect submission. And the god of Eros will flow through you, as Lawrence says, in the 'perfect obliteration of blood consciousness. -- Joyce Carol Oates
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 shakes things up, causes people to break the rules, makes people do crazy things! Reason doesn't stand a chance in its face. -- Micheline Aharonian Marcom
For me, spirit is the impulse towards life, the Eros in a person leaping forward, whereas soul refers to something possibly long.. suffering, where meanings are made, where there is a sense of this gathering of perceptions, that our death is not the most important thing, nor our life. -- Michael Leunig
To be running breathlessly, but not yet arrived, is itself delightful, a suspended moment of living hope. -- Anne Carson
the dullard sees no eros in fine champagne; the sorcerer can fall intoxicated on a glass of water -- Hakim Bey
This letter gives me a tongue; and were I not allowed to write, I should be dumb. [Lat., Praebet mihi littera linguam: Et, si non liceat scribere, mutus ero.] -- Ovid
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 experiences and pleasures you share. -- Francois Lelord
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. -- Rollo May
Civilization is a process in the service of Eros, whose purpose is to combine single human individuals, and after that families, then races, peoples and nations, into one great unity, the unity of mankind. Why this has to happen, we do not know; the work of Eros is precisely this. -- Sigmund Freud
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. -- Allan Bloom
I listen to everything from, you know, Buddha Bar groove music to international music, Italian music, like Eros. I like very sexy, funky music like Maxwell, Angie Stone, R&B...In my CD player, I've probably got Maxwell, Beyonce, Enrique Iglesias, and kid music...maybe some AC/DC. I mean a little bit of everything. It depends on what I'm doing. -- Brooke Burke
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 is brought to the test it proves otherwise... For it is the very mark of Eros that when he is in us we had rather share unhappiness with the Beloved than be happy on any other terms. -- C. S. Lewis
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 was the Greek way of saying that, in spite of what it may believe, Love pursues the Soul, not the body; the Erotic desires the Psychic. If Love was clean and wholesome he wouldn't lust after Psyche. -- Stephen Fry
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. -- Allan Bloom
Frienship is eros...without wings -- Lord Byron
The eros of advertising is lurid but not specific. -- Mason Cooley
Be passionate. Generate the magnetic power of eros through sensual, mental, and spiritual delight. -- John Friend
Fear and destructiveness are the major emotional sources of fascism, eros belongs mainly to democracy. -- Theodor Adorno
Spirituality is about what we do about the fire inside of us, about how we channel our eros. -- Ronald Rolheiser
The spark of eros provides color and flavor to delight in our sensuality. Without generating this creative juice, many people feel uninspired and dry in their lives. -- John Friend
Photography has a natural affinity for the strategies of surrealism - the exaltation of chance and eros, the exploration of obsession and the release of the unconscious. -- Douglas McCulloh
God's love, and hence the love with which we come to love God, is eros and agape at once: a desire for the other that delights in the distance of otherness. -- David Bentley Hart

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