67 Quotes About Eros

Your arrows may strike all things else, Apollo, but mine shall strike you.

I think Eros should be dirty. In Greek legend, as I'm sure you are aware, he fell in love with the minor deity Psyche. It was the Greek way of saying that, in spite of what it may believe, Love pursues the Soul, not the body; the Erotic desires the Psychic. If Love was clean and wholesome he wouldn't lust after Psyche.

On easy wings I glide to Olympos whereI seek my master Eros,but he no longer lets me run down warm womenas in my doghood days:he sees my graying beard and passes me by,while I stand transfixedin the wind made by his wings of quivering gold.

Love is really a highway robber:1) He waits in ambush through the night,2) He is a desperado,3) and in the end he strips us naked.

This is what I undoubtably know… that my descent into my Self, is ultimately the True ascent of my-SELF.

Eros limbslackener shakes me again—that sweet, bitter, impossible creature.

The truth about eros is terrifying.

Eros aimed one of his arrows at Medea, and drove it into her heart, up to the feathers.

I suggest that we need a generation or two not of theory but of an attempt to discover the real phenomena of eros.