Denis Rougemont Quotes

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

Denis De Rougemont

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

Denis De Rougemont

#3. 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

#4. 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

#5. Swept into the giddy vortex which keeps so many young people revolving aimlessly, till they go down or are cast upon the shore, wrecks of what they might have been

Louisa May Alcott

#6. If I ever own a restaurant, I will never allow the waiters to ask if the diners like their dishes. Particularly when they're talking.

Orson Welles

#7. If I had to describe my work in one word, that word would be time.

Andy Goldsworthy

#8. If kids and teenagers can get into a band, it's probably not because they think it's brainy.

Ezra Koenig

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

Denis De Rougemont

#10. 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

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

Denis De Rougemont

#12. Hence the experienced soldier, once in motion, is never bewildered; once he has broken camp, he is never at a loss.

Sun Tzu

#13. The first thing I learned was that even if you have a lot of money and power and fame, you can still suffer very deeply.

Nhat Hanh

#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. A well-bred duckling spreads his feet wide apart, just like his father and mother, in this way. Now bend your neck, and say 'quack.'" The

Hans Christian Andersen

#16. I don't know. I love my friends, but yes, I'm discovering that they don't know me very well. It's not their fault, though. I've never let them. I've never really known myself.

Kasie West

#17. Society is impossible without inequality, inequality intolerable without a code of morality, and a code of morality unacceptable without religion.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#18. 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

#19. The public doesn't mind people living together without being married, providing they don't overdo it.

Marilyn Monroe

#20. Americans ... still believe in an America where anything's possible - they just don't think their leaders do.

Barack Obama

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

Denis De Rougemont

#22. Fallen myths can instill venom.

Denis De Rougemont

#23. When you discover your essential nature and know who you really are, in that knowing itself is the ability to fulfill any dream you have, because you are the eternal possibility, the immeasurable potential of all that was, is, and will be.

Deepak Chopra

#24. Usually I like to work out in the morning before I eat. After the workout, I like to eat a banana and definitely some oatmeal for a little bit extra boost.

Kacy Catanzaro

#25. 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

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

Denis De Rougemont

#27. 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

#28. I don't like funerals, and a while ago I just stopped going to them. I think the ceremony is a form of denial, and when my wife died and my daughter, Cady, informed me that she was unaware of any instance where going to somebody's funeral ever brought them back, I just about gave it up.

Craig Johnson