“[...] passion is by no means the fuller life which it seems to be in the dreams of adolescence, but is on the contrary a kind of naked and denuding intensity, verily, a bitter destitution, the impoverishment of a mind being emptied of all diversity, an obsession of the imagination by a single image.” LoveMindPassionObsession Book:Love in the Western World Source: Love in the Western World
“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.” EndsProblemPassionSocialExistenceMarriageDangerRaisesMidstStrifePersistentExclusive Author:Denis de Rougemont
“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.” MeanSufferingPassionPoetCoupleSatisfactionDelightSensesFlightContentmentFinestLyrical Book:Love in the Western World Source: Love in the Western World
“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.” PassionEnjoyLove IsPossessionContraryFlightInabilityAbsentNever EndingSequelsLove Passion Book:Love in the Western World Source: Love in the Western World
