De Rougemont Quotes

#1. It's such a stupid question, in my opinion. I mean, how do you know what you're going to do till you do it? The answer is, you don't. I think I am, but how do I know? I swear it's a stupid question.

J.D. Salinger

#2. Kids are naturally curious about what they don't know, or don't understand, or what is foreign to them. They only learn to be frightened of those differences when an adult influences them to behave that way and censors that natural curiosity.

Aimee Mullins

#3. Out of many things a great heap will be formed.
[Lat., De multis grandis acervus erit.]

Ovid

#4. A woman waits for me, she contains all, nothing lacking.

Walt Whitman

#5. She's the fire in my veins, the breath in my lungs, and the glue trying to hold each of my scars together.

Nyrae Dawn

#6. Passion and marriage are essentially irreconcilable. Their origins and their ends make them mutually exclusive. Their co-existence in our midst constantly raises insoluble problems, and the strife thereby engendered constitutes a persistent danger for every one of our social safeguards.

Denis De Rougemont

#7. The knowledge of true danger may cure us of false fears

Denis De Rougemont

#8. I have a cousin who is a spiritual advisor for Native veterans in Canada, so I'm very familiar with the history of Natives in the military. And growing up as an American Indian myself, the story of Ira Hayes is one that is often told.

Adam Beach

#9. Happiness is indeed a Eurydice, vanishing as soon as gazed upon. It can exist only in acceptance, and succumbs as soon as it is laid claim to.

Denis De Rougemont

#10. Fallen myths can instill venom.

Denis De Rougemont

#11. Before people deal with their own sin, they are always dealing with other people's sin.

Johnny Hunt

#12. Why should neurotic, selfish, immature people suddenly become angels when they fall in love ... ?

Denis De Rougemont

#13. How could one find out about life when one was about to die?

Richard Wright

#14. Why would I want to sound like Joni Mitchell? I've got Joni Mitchell records, and they're great, and I couldn't possibly be that good.

Ben Folds

#15. Social confusion has now reached a point at which the pursuit of immorality turns out to be more exhausting than compliance with the old moral codes.

Denis De Rougemont

#16. Oh, I collect facts and quotes when I can't write, and I can't write most of the time. I do a little chance operation sometimes where I flip through outdated reference books to see if anything will strike me as beautiful or momentous. Library roulette, I call it.

Jenny Offill

#17. Never forget what a person says to you when they are angry.

Henry Ward Beecher

#18. The more a man is given to sentiment ,the more likely is he to be wordy and to speak well.

Denis De Rougemont

#19. To love in the sense of passion-love is the contrary of to live. It is an impoverishment of one's being, an askesis without sequel, an inability to enjoy the present without imagining it as absent, a never-ending flight from possession.

Denis De Rougemont

#20. Romance only comes into existence where love is fatal, frowned upon and doomed by life itself.

Denis De Rougemont

#21. Our country is always willing to lend a hand to the helpless, as long as they lend us a hand when we need to fill up our gas tanks.

Thor Benson

#22. Animals do feel like us, also joy, love, fear and pain but they cannot grasp the spoken word. It is our obligation to take their part and continue to resist the people who profit by them, who slaughter them and who torture them.

Denis De Rougemont

#23. Love ceases to be a demon only when he ceases to be a god.

Denis De Rougemont

#24. Matt Damon is running in suit. Nobody runs in suit like Matt Damon.

Katie Kennedy

#25. This would never happen to Van Damme. Heroes never shit. They only fuck and kill.

D.B.C. Pierre

#26. What stirs lyrical poets to their finest flights is neither the delight of the senses nor the fruitful contentment of the settled couple; not the satisfaction of love, but its passion. And passion means suffering.

Denis De Rougemont

#27. This peculiar connexion between a certain view of woman and the European conception of war has had profound consequences for morality, education, and politics.

Denis De Rougemont

#28. My challenge to members on both sides of the aisle is to stand up and have the integrity to say that we have a dead U.S. agent; we have a Department of Justice that lied to Congress.

Jason Chaffetz

#29. A life allied with mine, for the rest of our lives ... that is the miracle of marriage.

Denis De Rougemont