Top 100 Quotes About Eros
#1. Eros aimed one of his arrows at Medea, and drove it into her heart, up to the feathers.
Robert Graves
#2. The eros of advertising is lurid but not specific.
Mason Cooley
#3. The words come out harsh, raw. That's all I have. The wounds he gave me don't heal but fester.
Marata Eros
#4. If you want to be shot down by the Arrows of Eros, you should get rid of the iron shield called Logic!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#5. Nico's voice was like broken glass. "I- I wasn't in love with Annabeth."
"You were jealous of her," Jason said. "That's why you didn't want to be around her. Especially why you don't want to be around ... him. It makes total sense.
Rick Riordan
#6. I may now add that civilization is a process in the service of Eros, whose purpose is to combine single human individuals, and after that families, then races, peoples and nations, into one great unity, the unity of mankind.
Sigmund Freud
#8. But nowhere is this a more urgent task than in matters of eros, the first and best hope of human connectedness in a world where all connectedness has become problematic
Allan Bloom
#9. I've got the girl disease. Low self-esteem. We give it to each other. It's a thing.
Marata Eros
#10. For me, spirit is the impulse towards life, the Eros in a person leaping forward, whereas soul refers to something possibly long.. suffering, where meanings are made, where there is a sense of this gathering of perceptions, that our death is not the most important thing, nor our life.
Michael Leunig
#11. 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
#13. Now Eros makes a man really want, not a woman, but one particular woman. In some mysterious but quite indisputable fashion the lover desires the Beloved herself, not the pleasure she can give.
C.S. Lewis
#14. In mauve sea-orchids as in her striking earlier book Guardians of the Secret, Lila Zemborain brings into relationship the viscera of the body and the spill of the universe in tense compositions that blur distinctions between lyric and prose poetry, between science and eros.
Forrest Gander
#15. Eros the melter of limbs (now again) stirs me -
sweetbitter unmanageable creature who steals in
Sappho
#16. When Psyche got up to leave, Eros once again mentioned that he would miss her on Sunday."Even if you come on Sunday, I shall not be able to give you what you want. I shall be having my period then & it will be too messy for your liking," his secretary advised him.[MMT]
Nicholas Chong
#17. Eros harrows my heart: wild gales sweeping desolate mountains, uprooting oaks.
Sappho
#18. Eros seizes and shakes my very soul like the wind on the mountain
shaking ancient oaks.
Sappho
#19. It is perhaps true that that sort of sexual energy wanes over time - as the original impetus loses its luster. And then, I suppose, it's on to the next thing. But eros is eternal, like joy.
Micheline Aharonian Marcom
#20. There is a supernal intelligence behind sexual arousal, the true purpose of which is to create for us ecstatic experiences of our own divinity.
John Maxwell Taylor
#21. YesIsaidyesyesyesyesyes...YesIsaidyes! andagainyesyesyes -- Molly Bloom
James Joyce
#22. No one takes whats mine. fate has gifted me this female. Destiny does not allow exchanges
Marata Eros
#23. Frienship is eros ... without wings
Lord Byron
#24. My desire turns to something heady and more sinister. Fear.
Marata Eros
#25. Mind out of the gutter, Suze. Eros is only one kind of love, eh? Ancient Greeks recognised four.
Peter Watts
#26. Agape is related to Eros, as Mozart to Beethoven. How could they possibly be confused?
Karl Barth
#27. 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
#29. The family's function is to repress Eros; to induce a false consciousness of security; to deny death by avoiding life; to cut off transcendence; to believe in God, not to experience the Void; to create, in short, one-dimensional man; to promote respect, conformity, obedience. . .
R.D. Laing
#30. Civilization is a process in the service of Eros, whose purpose is to combine single human individuals, and after that families, then races, peoples and nations, into one great unity, the unity of mankind. Why this has to happen, we do not know; the work of Eros is precisely this.
Sigmund Freud
#31. Relaxing me from head to feet
Love masters me, the bitter sweet
O'er thy limbs breathing;
Yea, Eros now, the god born blind
Sweeps my soul like the mountain wind
Through the oaks seething.
Edna St. Vincent Millay
#32. We're terrible together."
"It's not about true love, Jess."
"If it were love then it's a terrible love.
Marata Eros
#33. The story of Psyche finally made sense to him- why a mortal girl would be so afraid. Why would she risk breaking the rules to look the god of love in the face, because she feared he might be a monster.
Psyche had been right. Cupid was a monster. Love was the most savage monster of all.
Rick Riordan
#34. Love, I saw now, was an exterior spiritual force that swept through our bodies in the symbolic forms of eros, then bound us materially, skin and bone, in the symbolic moment of birth.
Andrew Klavan
#35. And thus Bacchus turned Phyllis into his slave. She had become the lovely slave girl, Briseis, whom Achilles took as a war prize & whom Achilles had to yield to Agamemnon, his boss. Just as Phyllis was the prize that Eros found & whom Eros had to yield to Bacchus,his boss.[MMT]
Nicholas Chong
#36. Tell me, did you summon me just so you could beat the crap out of me? Or is there a more productive reason for why I'm here? (Eros)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#37. Very different from eros is philia, a serene love much more akin to friendship, with its reciprocal kindnesses. You love each other for the happy experiences and pleasures you share.
Francois Lelord
#38. We had always segregated sex from feeling and from intellectual love, so you were either pure and virtuous, as Nassrin's uncle had said, or dirty and fun. What was alien to us was eros, true sensuality.
Azar Nafisi
#39. This is Detective Miller. He died when Eros hit Venus and now he's a puppet of the protomolecule."
"Semi-autonomous," the alien said.
"Pleased to meet you."
"Likewise.
James S.A. Corey
#40. I'd rather have you die and have known you for five minutes then to have never known you and not have this hole in my heart. The pain is real but so is the love.
Marata Eros
#41. Eros supported a population of one and a half million, a little more than Ceres had in visitors at any given time.
James S.A. Corey
#43. I consider it poor historical form to make fun of ancestral mistakes without respecting the eros that was linked to them. We are no less in bondage to the Zeitgeist; folly is handed down, we merely don a new cap.
Ernst Junger
#44. Everything was illuminated. Everything was connected. Everything was one. Everything was love.
H. Raven Rose
#45. Why did you hit him? (Grace) Because it gave me a great deal of pleasure. (Julian) Nice. You haven't seen me in what, two thousand years? So, instead of a friendly, brotherly hug, I get slugged. (Eros)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#46. You fucked the groom fifteen minutes before he was to say his vows."
"Ah, yeah." I adjust my erection again.
"Then you took the father-in-law."
"Well, I was already naked and you know I recover quickly-"
"Eros!
Candi Kay
#47. You're too focused. Too high-strung. Too ... " Eros trails off as he continues to look into Levi's blue eyes. "Too caught up with being in love.
Shanora Williams
#48. Human nature will not easily find a better helper than eros
Socrates
#49. The precarious ontological link between Logos and Eros is broken, and scientific rationality emerges as essentially neutral.
Herbert Marcuse
#50. 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
#51. Chemistry doesn't discriminate as to timing, looks, or circumstance. It's there to be recognized and play out, regardless of environment.
Marata Eros
#52. Agape, eros, and chastity, a heady combination that would make even the strongest man fall to his knees
Sylvain Reynard
#53. But pomp and power alone are woman's care,
And where these are light Eros finds a feere;
Maidens, like moths, are ever caught by glare,
And Mammon wins his way where Seraphs might despair.
George Gordon Byron
#54. One rational voice is dumb: over a grave
The household of Impulse mourns one dearly loved.
Sad is Eros, builder of cities,
And weeping anarchic Aphrodite.
W. H. Auden
#55. We came upon a massacre at the Shrine of Prometheus. The humans were ripped to shreds. There was no one ieft alive to say what happened, said Eros.
Wynn Mercere
#56. Eros, again now, the loosener of limbs troubles me,
Bittersweet, sly, uncontrollable creature ... .
Sappho
#57. Um, Dr. Alexander, there's a couple out here who say they're related to you. They ... um ... they're biker people. (Nurse) Hey, Julian. Tell Attila the Hun here that we're okay so we can come and ooh and aah over the babies. (Eros)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#58. Gods, I wish the world was full of passive women.He thougt for a moment longer, then scowled. On second thoughts, what a nightmare that'd be. It's the job of a man to fan the spark into flames, not quench it ...
Steven Erikson
#59. Oh, he's not like that," said Favonius.
Jason flinched. "You can read my mind?"
"I don't need to." Favonius tossed his bronze hoop in the air. "Everyone has the wrong impression of Cupid ... until they meet him.
Rick Riordan
#61. Are you looking to steal someone's Heart? Then you're on a quest to capture someone's interest! But, True Lovers have been given a gift, their invisible bond penetrates their Heart to pound together! -Author Serena Jade
Serena Jade
#62. Art, it seems to me, doesn't need freedom so much as it needs courage and love - some would call it 'soul' or 'Eros.'
Michael Leunig
#63. Please tell me your master isn't Aeolus."
"That airhead?" Favonius snorted. "No, of course not."
"He means Eros." Nico's voice turned edgy. "Cupid, in Latin."
Favonius smiled. "Very good, Nico di Angelo. I'm glad to see you again, by the way. It's been a long time.
Rick Riordan
#64. Then, having accomplished what he wanted to do, Eros decided to stop the futile battle. He recalled Phobos & Deimos from Mars & sent him Anteros & Himeros instead.
And immediately, the God of Hate turned into the God of Passion.
Nicholas Chong
#65. Our Being is Becoming, not stasis. Our Science is Utopia, our Reality is Eros, our Desire is Revolution.
Murray Bookchin
#66. He [Cupid] was Love [Eros] reborn. And as he was born after his parents coupled as Love-Birds, he was born with little fluttering wings.
Nicholas Chong
#67. You want the bad news, or the really bad news? (Eros)
Oh, let's see ... how about we make my day special, and start with the worst, then work our way up? (Julian)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#68. Don't even get me started on what she rams her boobs into. It is surely a manacle for tits.
Marata Eros
#69. Lawrence is the supreme poet of Eros. No recriminations, no reproaches, no guilt, no 'morality'. For what's 'morality' but a leash around the neck? A noose? What's 'morality' but what other people want you to do, for their own, selfish, unstated purposes?
Joyce Carol Oates
#70. The dullard sees no eros in fine champagne; the sorcerer can fall intoxicated on a glass of water
Hakim Bey
#71. Love is a great spirit. Everything spiritual is in between god and mortal.
Plato
#72. Michelle would get picked up and bang someone anonymous stud in the bathroom, and i would sip my drink wishing i could go home and curl up with a book. i sigh. thats ok. she was my vicarious slutty friend. and for that i loved her
Marata Eros
#73. 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
#74. There is always tension in women's gymnastics between athleticism, grace, performance, and eros.
Meghan O'Rourke
#75. He's enough of a man to make a legion of panties disintegrate. Incinerate.
Marata Eros
#76. 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
#77. Nothing?" Favonius cried. "The one you care for most ... plunged into Tartarus, and you still will not allow the truth?"
Suddenly Jason felt like he was eavedropping.
The one you care for most.
Rick Riordan
#78. Eros guides us to Logos.
Plato
#79. The secret has been killing me. Taking small chunks out of who I am until I wasn't me anymore.
Marata Eros
#80. Love me until Venus gasps with envy.
Love me again until Eros swears celibacy.
Gloria D. Gonsalves
#81. The friendship between my hand and this stone enacts an ancient and irrefutable eros, the kindredness of matter with itself.
David Abram
#82. The words we read and words we write never say exactly what we mean. The people we love are never just as we desire them. The two symbola never perfectly match. Eros is in between.
Anne Carson
#84. The Soul is unconscious to most. Therefore, true soul mates are ahead of their time!
Serena Jade
#85. How you feeling?" Now that you're here? Wet. I
Marata Eros
#86. The full moon cast an eerie glow through thick ancient dark woods. In the shadows around a tree, the serial killer ran his knife lovingly over Chelsea's trussed dead body. She lay, as if posed for a photo, wearing only bloody pink underpants.
H. Raven Rose
#87. 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
#88. He smirks, popping his sizeable package out of the boxer briefs that are tight enough for speculation and loose enough for mystery.
Marata Eros
#89. Don't start on that. When I offered you her gifts, you told me to shove them straight up my back orifice. (Eros)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#90. Christianity gave Eros poison to drink; he did not die of it, certainly, but degenerated to Vice.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#91. The Greeks, it will be recalled, regarded Eros, the god of love, as the eldest of the gods; but also as the youngest, born fresh and dewy-eyed in every living heart.
Joseph Campbell
#92. Eros, honoured without reservation and obeyed unconditionally, becomes a demon.
C.S. Lewis
#93. One cannot serve this Eros without becoming a stranger in society as it is today; one cannot commit oneself to this form of love without incurring a mortal wound.
Klaus Mann
#94. Love is on every side, Cupid said. And no one's side. Don't ask what Love can do for you.
"Great," Jason said. "Now he's spouting greeting card messages.
Rick Riordan
#97. The daimonic is any natural function which has the power to take over the whole person. Sex and eros, anger and rage, and the craving for power are examples. The daimonic can be either creative or destructive and is normally both.
Rollo May
#98. Eros is not tranquil - it gives us spikes of happiness rather than a constant feeling of wellbeing. It's the love we feel at the beginning of a love affair and corresponds to the expression 'falling in love' since it is as involuntary an impulse as a physical fall.
Francois Lelord
#99. With good reason, love's messengers, Eros and Kama, are armed with bows and long-distance arrows. No being, god or mortal, can choose love. Love comes despite ourselves; and then, if we have not already done so, we have the task of becoming our selves so we may welcome love.
Diane Wolkstein
#100. Eros is my sun, Ares is my fire, but Hephaestus is my rock, my foundation, and no matter where I go or what I do, I will always come back to him. I know that now.
Aimee Carter