Denis De Rougemont Quotes

#1. During one new moon at perigee, I stood on high ground, watching salt ponds overflow, cover the beach, and meet the ocean. Because the moon was invisible, the water was black as it drowned the sand, and the event felt primal - which in fact it was, because it was nature.

Luanne Rice

#2. 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

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

Denis De Rougemont

#4. If you develop an ear for sounds that are musical it is like developing an ego. You begin to refuse sounds that are not musical and that way cut yourself off from a good deal of experience.

John Cage

#5. 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

#6. Fallen myths can instill venom.

Denis De Rougemont

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

Denis De Rougemont

#8. if you don't find a loyal one in the world you be the one

Saki

#9. I'm like a little kid that has a basketball and don't want nobody else to play with it. "It's mine, it's mine, and it's mine!" When it comes to sneakers.

Fat Joe

#10. 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

#11. Let it go. That's my philosophy: learn to not give a fuck, at least about petty shit. Life will be much simpler.

Cherrie Lynn

#12. What you praise you increase.

Catherine Ponder

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

Denis De Rougemont

#14. 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

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

Denis De Rougemont

#16. Playing cat and mouse is generally only fun for the cat.

Jim Butcher

#17. 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

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

Denis De Rougemont

#19. I'm smart with my money, I invest conservatively. I don't mind paying top-dollar, but I don't want to get ripped off.

Kim Cattrall

#20. 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

#21. 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

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

Denis De Rougemont