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Quotes About Eros

We rehearse for the big death through the little death of orgasm, through erotic living. Death as transfiguration
~ Peter Redgrove
Mind out of the gutter, Suze. Eros is only one kind of love, eh? Ancient Greeks recognised four.
~ Peter Watts
Even as his mind was imagining her clothes being slowly stripped away while his lips kissed the sweet, tender skin as it was revealed.
~ Adrienne Basso
Nature [provides] with the excitement of the dance in the interest of the reproduction of the species.
~ Pitigrilli
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
Lawrence is the supreme poet of Eros. No recriminations, no reproaches, no guilt, no 'morality'. For what's 'morality' but a leash around the neck? A noose? What's 'morality' but what other people want you to do, for their own, selfish, unstated purposes?
~ Joyce Carol Oates
Politics, the negotiating of power. Eros, the negotiating of power.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
Une image. Voilà: un jeune couple en train de faire l'amour dans la ville d'Hiroshima, le matin de l'explosion atomique, en 1945. Et la Bombe tombe au moment même où ils parviennent à l'orgasme. Éros et Hiroshima. ÉROSHIMA. Le Sexe et la mort. Les deux plus vieux mythes du monde.
~ Dany Laferrière
In developmental psychology there is a general understanding that an individual must master the twin areas of sexuality and aggression (Freud's Eros and Thanatos) in order to have truly achieved adulthood. In the same way, the maturation of the human race necessitates our collective mastery of these two areas.
~ Dave Grossman
The friendship between my hand and this stone enacts an ancient and irrefutable eros, the kindredness of matter with itself.
~ David Abram
I'll make you so in love with me, that everytime our lips touch, you'll die a little death.
~ Ai Yazawa
I wanna sing about something that's sexy and edgy.
~ Brandy Norwood
Any remnants of passionate tension between sexual pleasure and the adventurous quest for it are fast disintegrating into a panting succession of mechanically repeated gestures whose rhythm offers no hope of approaching so much as a semblance of orgasm. The quantitative Eros of speed, rapid change, and love-against-the-clock everywhere disfigures the face of real pleasure.
~ Raoul Vaneigem
La furia y el deseo vienen en un paquete, entremezclados y revueltos en algo que siempre amenaza con transformar el eros en thanatos, amor en muerte, algunas veces literalmente.
~ Rebecca Solnit
Eros colpisce come il fabbro con il martello sprizzando scintille dalla sfida. Hai spento il mio cuore tra lacrime e lamenti, come si spegne un fuoco incandescente del ruscello.
~ Karen Blixen
Agape is related to Eros, as Mozart to Beethoven. How could they possibly be confused?
~ Karl Barth
Agape is related to Eros, as Mozart to Beethoven. How could they possibly be confused? Agape
~ Karl Barth
Eros grimaced, as cute as only the God of Love can be, his gloved hand hovering over a glass box full of hissing adders.
~ David G. Hartwell
Eros might be a demi-god, but he was young, flighty, and male, never pretending to be brave, or strong, or the least trustworthy.
~ David G. Hartwell
Is it not of the imagination that the sharpest pleasures arise?
~ Marquis de Sade
This idea the Greeks had of him is best summed up not by a poet, but by a philosopher, Plato: "Love—Eros—makes his home in men's hearts, but not in every heart, for where there is hardness he departs. His greatest glory is that he cannot do wrong nor allow it; force never comes near him. For all men serve him of their own free will. And he whom Love touches not walks in darkness.
~ Edith Hamilton
Fairest of the deathless gods. This idea the Greeks had of him is best summed up not by a poet, but by a philosopher, Plato: Love—Eros—makes his home in men's hearts, but not in every heart, for where there is hardness he departs. His greatest glory is that he cannot do wrong nor allow it; force never comes near him. For all men serve of him their own free will. And he whom Love touches not walks in darkness.
~ Edith Hamilton
Plato: "Love—Eros—makes his home in men's hearts, but not in every heart, for where there is hardness he departs. His greatest glory is that he cannot do wrong nor allow it; force never comes near him. For all men serve him of their own free will. And he whom Love touches not walks in darkness.
~ Edith Hamilton
Intense sexual desire is the best thing in the world.
~ Kathy Acker