67 Quotes About Eros

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.

Novels institutionalize the ruse of eros. It becomes a narrative texture of sustained incongruence, emotional and cognitive. It permits the reader to stand in triangular relation to the characters in the story and reach into the text after the objects of their desire, sharing their longing but also detached from it, seeing their view of reality but also its mistakenness. It is almost like being in love.

I've just been around long enough to see many sides of what our lovely evil boy-god Eros can be like. You see, there is a reason that Eros uses arrows to ensnare our hearts rather than strings or even chains. Because it is usually the person who is beyond our grasp, the last person we should love who pierces our heart.

Jeg haver mærket sagde Henric udi Mascaraden, at man ved Dantz kand fordrive Løsagtighed; Thi mangen Gang naar jeg tager en Jomfrue op at dantze med, er jeg saa forliebt som en Spanier; men ofte, naar Dantzen er til Ende, er jeg saa kydsk, som en West-Frisér: saa at jeg slutter, at Cupido gaaer ud ved Bevægelse og stærk Sveed.

(On the myth of Eros)Each time I recall this myth, I wonder: Are we never to be able to see the true face of love? And I understand what the Greeks meant by this: Love is an act of faith and its face should always be covered in mystery. Every moment should be lived with feeling and emotion because if we try to decipher it and understand it, the magic disappears.

Within Eros, there is (the) promise; within Love there is (the) Truth.

I want to hate you, to loathe you, to detest you, but for all my attempts, the need to touch you is ten times more powerful.

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?

Eros has degenerated; he began by introducing order and harmony, and now he brings back chaos.