Eros And Thanatos Quotes

#1. What are the sources of poetry? Love and death and the paradox of love and death. All poetry from the beginning is about Eros and Thanatos. Those are the only subjects. And how Eros and Thanatos interweave.

Erica Jong

#2. I've never, ever had a job that lasted for more than a few months.

Amy Landecker

#3. I think Mormons are good, moral people, but they're not part of Christianity.

Robert Jeffress

#4. Your level of your concentration decides the extent of the realization of your dreams.

Stephen Richards

#5. But one can acquire a taste for love as for loneliness or ugliness as for saintliness. Each a special way of going down.

Jack Gilbert

#6. Giving without expectation leads to receiving without limitation.

Charles F. Glassman

#7. The revolution is for the sake of life, not death.

Herbert Marcuse

#8. He believed that there is no end to the mischief and hatred which men harbor deep in themselves and unknown to themselves and no end to their capacity to deceive themselves and that though they loved life, they probably loved death more and in the end thanatos would likely win over eros.

Walker Percy

#9. Everything subtracted from the present is added to the future with interest.

CrimethInc.

#10. I knew he used women as counters in a game, Bobby Quine versus time and the night of cities. And Rikki had turned up just when he needed something to get him going, something to aim for. So he'd set her up as a symbol for everything he wanted and couldn't have, everything he'd had and couldn't keep.

William Gibson

#11. No matter how correct a mathematical theorem may appear to be, one ought never to be satisfied that there was not something imperfect about it until it also gives the impression of being beautiful.

George Boole

#12. We want deeper sincerity of motive, a greater courage in speech and earnestness in action.

Sarojini Naidu

#13. Is this guy Love or Death? Jason growled.
Ask your friends, Cupid said. Frank, Hazel, and Percy met my counterpart, Thanatos. We are not so different. Except Death is sometimes kinder.

Rick Riordan

#14. Our life-style contains more Thanatos than Eros, for egotism, exploitation, deception, obsession and addiction have more place in us than eroticism, joy, generosity and spontaneity.

Germaine Greer