E Quotes
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“Eros is very close to death. And both things, in a way, balance each other.”
“Eros love, which is sexual love that exists between a man and his wife; phileo love, which is brotherly love, the human sacrificial love, the highest form of human love that one man can show another and the third kind of love is the agape love which can only come out of Christ.”
Source: The Mind Of The Spirit
“Eros mumbled something.
"I'm sorry?" said Aphrodite.
"Whatwouldjesusdo."
"What would Jesus do?" said Aphrodite. "Let me tell you something. Jesus was a very good boy. He would do exactly what his mother told him to."
"But-"
"Jesus was supposed to be a god, right?" said Aphrodite. "Ergo, he did revenge. All gods do revenge."
"Not exactly. He said you should turn the other-"
"What else does your Jesus say?" Aphrodite interrupted.
"I thought you didn't care."
"Let me see," said Aphrodite. "I remember. 'Honour thy father and mother'."
"One, that wasn't Jesus. And two, it's hard to honour your father when there are so many candidates for who he might be."
"That's not very nice," said Aphrodite. "You know who your father is. It's your cousin Ares."
[...]
"I wish the Virgin Mary was my mother," grumbled Eros eventually.”
Source: Gods Behaving Badly
“Eros (or call it lust if you will), is like a beautiful, magnificent Afghan Hound! A pure white Afghan Hound commanding respect and honor! But if you take the Afghan Hound and lock it in a small cage, shun it and look upon it badly, treat it as a pestilence and wish that it would die; that same creature of beauty will become a vile, unrepentant, dark creature of the shadows! Untrusting, hidden in the corner, aggressive... something that will harm others and yourself! But is this the nature of the creature, is this the fault of the creature? Or are YOU the one who has created the monster that it has become? And this is my philosophy: that we are both corporeal and incorporeal beings, therefore, the same amount of good intent MUST be given to both our soul and our body!”
“Eros remains largely egocentric...it is a longing for union with an object which will fulfil the promise of self-completion....[Agape] is theocentric and selfless. It can flow through us, but it is not 'ours.' We only love, according to 1 John 4.19 'because he first loved us.”
Source: Nationalism and Particularity
“Eros seizes and shakes my very soul like the wind on the mountain
shaking ancient oaks.”
“Eros, the blacksmith of love,
smashed me with a giant hammer
and doused me in the cold river.”
“Eros, the blind god of lovers,
strikes me with a purple ball
and asks me to play with a woman
wearing colorful sandals,
but she is from beautiful
Lesbos, and scorns my white hair,
and turning her back runs gaping
behind another woman.”
“Eros, the god of love, emerged to create the earth. Before, all was silent, bare, and motionless. Now all was life, joy, and motion. — Early Greek Myth”
Source: Love and will
“Eros the melter of limbs (now again) stirs me -
sweetbitter unmanageable creature who steals in”
Source: If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho
“Eros, who was awakened when the girdle was cast aside, thought it unfitting that the Goddess of Love should turn herself into a Goddess of War, since that post was already filled by Athena. On the other hand, a battle between the Goddess of Love with the God of War also did not make sense, as they should either make love or make war & indulge either in love-games or war-games. For how could one party make love whilst the other make war at the same time? For it took two parties to either make love or make war.
And thus Eros decided to turn Mars into the God of Hate to see whether a battle between Love & Hate could produce Chaos, since Love & Chaos were one & so were Hate & Chaos. And thus Eros sent Phobos & Deimos to Mars, to turn the God of War into the God of Hate.”
“Eros will have naked bodies; Friendship naked personalities.”
Source: The Business of Heaven: Daily Readings from C. S. Lewis
“Erosion control coconut matting using derived products from coconut; Coir geotextiles.”
“Erosion of cities or attrition of automobiles?”
Source: Vital Little Plans: The Short Works of Jane Jacobs
“Erosion steals from my neighbor and my community. It impoverishes everyone. A food and farm system that encourages erosion is a direct assault on our neighbors and a direct assault on God's equity. Christians routinely lament an erosion of morality, but then patronize food that erodes the earth. How can we possibly steward morality if we can't even steward our dinner plate? We Christians extol the virtue of charity toward those less fortunate, but often help them with food that exemplifies greed and avarice.”
Source: The Marvelous Pigness of Pigs: Respecting and Caring for All God's Creation
“Erosion, desertification, and pollution have become our lot. It is a weird form of suicide, for we are bleeding our planet to death.”
“Erotic acts are instinctive; they fulfill a role in nature. The idea is familiar, but it is one that contains a paradox: there is nothing more natural than sexual desire; there is nothing less natural than the forms in which it is made manifest and satisfied.”
Source: An Erotic Beyond: Sade
“Erotic attraction often serves as the catalyst for an intimate connection between two people, but it is not a sign of love. Exciting, pleasurable sex can take place between two people who do not even know each other. Yet the vast majority of males in our society are convinced that their erotic longing indicates who they should, and can, love. Led by their penis, seduced by erotic desire, they often end up in relationships with partners with whom they share no common interests of values.”
Source: All About Love: New Visions
“Erotic dreams were taking over my body and mind more and more each night. The more I tried to resist them, to deny them, the faster they consumed me, wrapping around every sense until there was no space left to breathe or think clearly. My body craved release.”
Source: Where the Dark Knelt
“Erotic intelligence stretches far beyond a repertoire of sexual techniques. It is an intelligence that celebrates curiosity and play, the power of the imagination, and our infinite fascination with what is hidden and mysterious.”
“Erotic longing is really a longing to merge with something greater than oneself. For every kind of love is a force that holds the promise of taking us beyond the limitations of our individual lives.”
“Erotic love begins with separateness, and ends in oneness. Motherly love begins with oneness, and leads to separateness.”
Source: Sane Society Ils 252
“Erotic love is one of the highest forms of contemplation.”
“Erotic: meaning you're "desired."
For madness is seductive, sexy. Female madness.
So long as the female is reasonably young and attractive.”
Source: Blonde
“Erotic movies - they don't even make it anymore. Even the erotic magazines don't really look like the ones you could find in the '70s. You have much more extreme iconography of what is sexy. It's very cold. There's nothing that links to real life.”
“Erotic names, robes, insignia of office, titles- the trappings of religion- confuse as much as they help.”
“Erotic or sexual love can truly be love if it is not selfishly sexual or lustful.”
Source: Desires, Right & Wrong: The Ethics of Enough
“Erotic play discloses a nameless world which is revealed by the nocturnal language of lovers. Such language is not written down. It is whispered into the ear at night in a hoarse voice. At dawn it is forgotten.”
Source: The selected writings of Jean Genet
“Erotic pleasures draw strength from our weakest and most vulnerable moments…”
Source: The Color of Honey
“Erotic practices have become diversified. Sex used to be a single-crop farming, like cotton or wheat; now people raise all kinds of things.”
“Erotic role-play is a powerful sexual outlet which can orgasmically release us from the shackles of convention and normality to express a side of ourselves we otherwise would not have opportunity to convey.”
Source: Embrace Your Sexual Self: A Practical Guide for Women
“Erotica celebrates women and sexuality. Pornography violates women and demeans sex.”
Source: A Woman's Worth
“Erotica is simply high-class pornography; better produced, better conceived, better executed, better packaged, designed for a better class of consumer.”
Source: Pornography: men possessing women
“Erotica is using a feather; pornograpy is using the whole chicken.”
“Erotica: the depiction of naked men. Depictions of naked women are far less innocent and are known as "pornography."”
“Eroticism cannot be entirely revealed without poetry.”
Source: The Tears of Eros
“Eroticism differs from animal sexuality in that human sexuality is limited by taboos and the domain of eroticism is that of the transgression of these taboos. Desire in eroticism is the desire that triumphs over the taboo. It presupposes man in conflict with himself.”
Source: Death and Sensuality: A Study of Eroticism and the Taboo
“Eroticism has its own moral justification because it says that pleasure is enough for me; it is a statement of the individual's sovereignty.”
“Eroticism is assenting to life even in death.”
Source: Erotism
“Eroticism is first and foremost a thirst for otherness. And the supernatural is the supreme otherness. This is perhaps the most noble aim of poetry, to attach ourselves to the world around us, to turn desire into love, to embrace, finally what always evades us, what is beyond, but what is always there – the unspoken, the spirit, the soul.”
“Eroticism is like a dance: one always leads the other.”
“Eroticism is mystique; that is, the aura of emotion and imagination around sex. It cannot be 'fixed' by codes of social or moral convenience, whether from the political left or right. For nature's fascism is greater than that of any society. There is a daemonic instability in sexual relations that we may have to accept.”
Source: Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism
“Eroticism is one of the basic means of self-knowledge, as indispensable as poetry.”
“Eroticism is the approval of life unto death.”
“Eroticism thrives in the space between the self and the other.”
“Eroticism, hallucinogenic drugs, nuclear science, Gaudi's Gothic architecture, my love of gold - there is a common denominator in all of it: God is present in everything. The same magic is at the heart of all things, and all roads lead to the same revelation: we are children of God, and the entire universe tends towards the perfection of mankind.”
“Eroticism, it may be said, is assenting to life up to the point of death”
Source: Erotism
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“Err in the direction of kindness.”
Source: Congratulations, by the way: Some Thoughts on Kindness