The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities. — George Eliot
Eagles are seagulls with a good hairdo. — Doug Coupland
No hunter of the sky should end his days as prey. Better to die on the wing than pinned to the ground. [Saphira] — Christopher Paolini
All Birds find shelter during a rain. But Eagle avoids rain by flying above the Clouds. Problems are common, but attitude makes the difference!!! — Abdul Kalam
The phoenix hope, can wing her way through the desert skies, and still defying fortune's spite; revive from ashes and rise. — Miguel de Cervantes
To make an omelet you must first break some eggs. — Sherrilyn Kenyon
A leech who, having penetrated the shell of a turtle only to find that the creature has long been dead, deems it expedient to form a new attachment to a fresh turtle. — Ambrose Bierce
High office, is like a pyramid; only two kinds of animals reach the summit — reptiles and eagles. — Jean le Rond d'Alembert
The Eagle does not escape the storm. The Eagle simply uses the storm to lift it higher. It spreads its mighty wings and rises on the winds that bring the storm. — Jack White
Short Eros Quotes
Eros will have naked bodies; Friendship naked personalities. — C. S. Lewis
Eros seizes and shakes my very soul like the wind on the mountain
shaking ancient oaks. — Sappho
Christianity gave Eros poison to drink; he did not die of it, certainly, but degenerated to Vice. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Eros harrows my heart: wild gales sweeping desolate mountains, uprooting oaks. — Sappho
There is no art without Eros. — Max Frisch
Eros has degenerated; he began by introducing order and harmony, and now he brings back chaos. — George Eliot
the dullard sees no eros in fine champagne; the sorcerer can fall intoxicated on a glass of water — Hakim Bey
There is always tension in women's gymnastics between athleticism, grace, performance, and eros. — Meghan O'Rourke
The eros of advertising is lurid but not specific. — Mason Cooley
I spit
honey out of my mouth:
nothing is second-best
after the sweet of Eros. — Hilda Doolittle
Eros Image Quotes
Erosion Quotes
In addition to contributing to erosion, pollution, food poisoning, and the dead zone, corn requires huge amounts of fossil fuel - it takes a half gallon of fossil fuel to produce a bushel of corn. — Michael Pollan
Corruption is not just about money changing hands, but about the erosion of trust in society. — Alexei Navalny
Most floods are caused by man, not weather; deforestation, levee construction, erosion, and overgrazing all result in the loss of ecosystem services. — Paul Hawken
Natural erosion had reduced the critical barrier islands in the Gulf, the result of the destruction of some 300,000 acres of wetlands. This amounted to 30 miles of marshlands. — Mortimer Zuckerman
Essentially, all life depends upon the soil ... There can be no life without soil and no soil without life; they have evolved together. — Charles Kellogg
Nothing guarantees more the erosion of character than getting something for nothing — Dennis Prager
Over the past two decades, we have clearly seen an erosion of ethical values. — Arthur Levitt
Over the past two decades, we have clearly seen an erosion of ethical values. — Arthur Levitt Jr
The longer workers are unemployed, the greater the likelihood that their skills will erode and workers will lose attachment to the labor force, permanently damaging the economy's dynamism and potential output. — Jerome Powell
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
Our Being is Becoming, not stasis. Our Science is Utopia, our Reality is Eros, our Desire is Revolution. — Murray Bookchin
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
If a seperate personal Paradise exists for each of us mine must irreparably be planted with trees of words which the wind silvers like poplars, by people who see their confiscated justice given back, and by birds that even in the midst of the truth of death insist on singing in Greek and saying, eros, eros, eros. — Odysseas Elytis
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
To be running breathlessly, but not yet arrived, is itself delightful, a suspended moment of living hope. — Anne Carson
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
May the strength of Ares and wisdom of Athena see you through. (Eros) And may Hades roast your hoary soul. (Julian) — Sherrilyn Kenyon
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
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
Fear and destructiveness are the major emotional sources of fascism, eros belongs mainly to democracy. — Theodor Adorno
Eros is an ego-overwhelming, boundary dissolving, breakthrough creating force scripted into human life that is pretty intrinsically psychedelic. — Terence McKenna
This letter gives me a tongue; and were I not allowed to write, I should be dumb.
[Lat., Praebet mihi littera linguam:
Et, si non liceat scribere, mutus ero.] — Ovid
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
Test of the poet is knowledge of love,
For Eros is older than Saturn or Jove;
Never was poet, of late or of yore,
Who was not tremulous with love-lore. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nico, you can do this," Jason said. "It might be embarrassing, but it's for the scepter." Nico didn't look convinced. In fact he looked like he was going to be sick. But he squared his shoulders and nodded. "You're right. I- I'm not afraid of a love god." Favonius beamed. "Excellent! Would you like a snack before you go? — Rick Riordan
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
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
Defenceless under the night
Our world in stupor lies;
Yet, dotted everywhere,
Ironic points of light
Flash out wherever the Just
Exchange their messages:
May I, composed like them
Of Eros and of dust,
Beleaguered by the same
Negation and despair,
Show an affirming flame. — W. H. Auden
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
No one should forget: Eros alone can fulfill life; knowledge, never. Only Eros makes sense; knowledge is empty infinity; – for thoughts, there is always time; life has its time; there is no thought that comes too late; any desire can become a regret. — Emile M. Cioran
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. — Stephen Fry
The Green-eyed Monster causes much woe, but the absence of this ugly serpent argues the presence of a corpse whose name is Eros. — Minna Antrim
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
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
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
You can't deny Eros. Eros wills trike, like lightning. Our human defenses are frail, ludicrous. Like plasterboard houses in a hurricane. Your triumph is in perfect submission. And the god of Eros will flow through you, as Lawrence says, in the 'perfect obliteration of blood consciousness. — Joyce Carol Oates
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
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
Eros is a unique experience but it is not love itself. It bridges the gap between sexuality and love; it spans the chasm between two people. — John Pierrakos
The precarious ontological link between Logos and Eros is broken, and scientific rationality emerges as essentially neutral. — Herbert Marcuse
Two things of opposite natures seem to depend / One on another, as Logos depends / On Eros, day on night, the imagined On the real. / This is the origin of change. — Wallace Stevens
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. — François Lelord
Care is a state in which something does matter; care is the opposite of apathy. Care is the necessary source of eros, the source of human tenderness. — Rollo May
As Venus within Eros does not really aim at pleasure, so Eros does not aim at happiness. We may think he does, but when he is brought to the test it proves otherwise... For it is the very mark of Eros that when he is in us we had rather share unhappiness with the Beloved than be happy on any other terms. — C. S. Lewis
Writing, playing, composing, painting, reading, listening, looking-all require that we submit to being swept away by Eros, to a transformation of self of the kind that happens when we fall in love. — Stephen Nachmanovitch
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
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