Eros Quotes - Page 2

• 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

  Photography, Exaltation, Chance

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• To be running breathlessly, but not yet arrived, is itself delightful, a suspended moment of living hope.

  Anne Carson

  Running, Want, Bittersweet

  Anne Carson (2014). “Eros the Bittersweet: An Essay”, p.11, Princeton University Press

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• 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

  Thinking, Doe, May

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• 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

  Believe, Dirty, Thinking

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• 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

  Jealousy, Names, Green

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• 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

  Facts, Disguise, Betray

  C. S. Lewis (1971). “The Four Loves”, p.73, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• There is always tension in women's gymnastics between athleticism, grace, performance, and eros.

  Meghan O'Rourke

  Gymnastics, Grace, Athleticism

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• Ways of loving from a distance, mating without even touching-Amor platonicus! The ladder of love one is expected to climb higher and higher, elating the Self and the Other. Plato clearly regards any actual physical contact as corrupt and ignoble because he thinks the true goal of Eros is beauty. Is there no beauty in sex? Not according to Plato. He is after `more sublime pursuits.' But if you ask me, I think Plato's problem, like those of many others, was that he never got splendidly laid.

  Elif Safak

  Sex, Plato, Distance

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• 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

  Sex, Self, Atmosphere

  Allan David Bloom (1993). “Love and Friendship”

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• 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

  Sex, Real, Men

  Carl Gustav Jung, Michael Fordham, Gerhard Adler (1970). “The Collected Works of C. G. Jung: Civilization in transition”

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• Generally, the shaking is consciously felt in its positive aspects — as the wonderful new heaven and earth which love with its miracle and mystery has suddenly produced. Love is the answer, we sing. Our Western culture seems to be engaged in a romantic - albeit desperate - conspiracy to enforce the illusion that that is all there is to eros.

  Rollo May

  Life, Falling In Love, Love Is

  "Love & Will".

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• 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

  Distance, Desire, Delight

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• 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

  Heart, Voice, Religion

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• The eros of advertising is lurid but not specific.

  Mason Cooley

  Advertising

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• I think most generations tend to learn the lesson of war the hard way. There is a deep attraction to the empowerment. Freud is right: societies either become locked in a collective embrace of Eros, as individuals do, or a collective embrace of Thanatos, the death instinct. They swing between the two. The notion that societies are naturally prone toward self-preservation is wrong. Self-annihilation can be deeply addictive, intoxicating, enticing. So I take a darker view of human nature, that war is probably always going to be with us. I think history bears me out.

  Chris Hedges

  War, Thinking, Self

  "Addicted to War: A Conversation with Chris Hedges". Interview with Metta Spencer, peacemagazine.org. April-June 2007.

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• Nico, you can do this," Jason said. "It might be embarrassing, but it's for the scepter." Nico didn't look convinced. In fact he looked like he was going to be sick. But he squared his shoulders and nodded. "You're right. I- I'm not afraid of a love god." Favonius beamed. "Excellent! Would you like a snack before you go?

  Rick Riordan

  Snacks, Sick, Jason

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• 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

  Falling In Love, Reading, Writing

  Stephen Nachmanovitch (1991). “Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art”, p.164, Penguin

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• 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

  Love, Sex, America

  D.H. Lawrence (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of D.H. Lawrence (Illustrated)”, p.9267, Delphi Classics

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• 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

  Love, Poetry, Tests

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Albert J. Von Frank (2015). “Ralph Waldo Emerson: The Major Poetry”, p.227, Harvard University Press

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• 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

  Views, Safety, Risk

  "Love and Friendship". Book by Allan Bloom, pp. 13-14, 1993.

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

  Isabel Allende

  Balance, Way, Close To Death

  "Isabel Allende discusses new book on sex and food". "CNN Sunday Morning" with Miles O'Brien, www.cnn.com. March 31, 1998.

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• Have you two made friendly with the privates yet? (Eros)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Two, Friendly, Made

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• Frienship is eros...without wings

  Lord Byron

  Friendship, Wings

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

  Emile M. Cioran

  Desire, Holes, Concessions

  "The Book of Delusions". Book by Emile M. Cioran, 1936.

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• The Greeks were smarter than us, and they had different words for different kinds of love. There's storge, which is family love. That's not us. There's eros, which is sexual love. There's philia, which is brotherly love. And then there's the highest form. Agape.” He pronounced it “aga-pay.” “That's transcendental love, like when you place the other person above yourself.

  Bill Konigsberg

  Family Love, Greek, Different

  Bill Konigsberg (2013). “Openly Straight”, p.205, Scholastic Inc.

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