Top 29 Rougemont Quotes
#1. On the other hand, even a big, '80s love van was less noticeable than six flying kids and their talking dog.
So there you go.
James Patterson
#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. When you're in touch with your heart, you feel a connection with others and you have access to your wisdom.
Kristine Carlson
#6. A good writer can watch a cat pad across the street and know what it is to be pounced upon by a Bengal tiger.
John Le Carre
#7. She already knew that he'd decided to leave - knew before he opened his mouth to speak. But for one last minute, she could pretend that he was hers to keep. For one last minute, she held him, and let him hold her.
Rob Thomas
#8. All those nights you held me and just let me cry ... you have no idea how many
times you've already saved me.
Colleen Hoover
#9. So you tie men up, spank them and force them to eat your pussy. It is a shame you have to force men to do that to you. I would gladly get on my knees for you and eat that pussy like a delicious buffet.
Aubrey Morgan
#11. 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
#12. What commercialism has brought into Linux has been the incentive to make a good distribution that is easy to use and that has all the packaging issues worked out.
Linus Torvalds
#13. You are beautiful. You are unique. Your heart holds celestial love which flows like a mighty river through you to nourish the universe.
Debasish Mridha
#14. Mutual understanding is of critical importance. There are those who say that 'understanding' is merely the sum total of our misunderstandings
Haruki Murakami
#15. Romance only comes into existence where love is fatal, frowned upon and doomed by life itself.
Denis De Rougemont
#16. Their names are Death, Disease, War, and Sparkle-Darkle Glitter-tits," Sophie said. "They're the four little ponies of the Apocalypse.
Christopher Moore
#17. Hear, hear.' Sister Martha hoisted her water glass. 'Let the rigid stick of self-righteousness be dislodged from her very uptight ass.'
Father Ramon coughed.
'A-fucking-men,' Loup supplied helpfully.
Jacqueline Carey
#18. 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
#19. The more a man is given to sentiment ,the more likely is he to be wordy and to speak well.
Denis De Rougemont
#21. 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
#22. It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose. That is not weakness, that is life.
Patrick Stewart
#23. Why should neurotic, selfish, immature people suddenly become angels when they fall in love ... ?
Denis De Rougemont
#25. That ... you don't want to see, because it isn't a physical realm
because, Light and Darkness ... they live inside of us.
Matt, The Ending
Alexandra Lanc
#26. 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
#27. A country is only as strong as its military, and only as moral as the men who serve in its ranks.
Michelle Moran
#29. 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
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