Love Quotes

"The more directly the thou is touched, the more perfect is the unity achieved."

"We cannot love the absent; we can only love the present."

"The more deeply one enters the world of the Thou, the more one transcends the self."

"The Thou is not an object of experience but a subject of encounter."

"The You is not a sum of qualities; it is a unity."

"Genuine love is the willingness to be changed by the other."

"To love is to cease treating another as an object of use."

"Eroticism is a form of consciousness that extends beyond the merely physical."

"The erotic is fundamentally about the annihilation of the separate self."

"To love is to accept the dissolution of one's own boundaries."

"Love is the recognition of oneself in another."

"Love is the recognition of shared humanity and common struggle."

"To love is to love the vulnerability of the beloved."

"Eros reveals the infinite within finite embodied existence."

"Passionate love is a queer thing. It is what unites religions and kills them, creates ideals and butchers them."

"To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead."

"To love is to accept the absolute distance between souls."

"To love is to be dispossessed of oneself."

"To love the other is to love their absolute alterity."

"Love is the only force that can overcome repression."

"Eroticism is the assimilation of the profane into the sacred."

"Eroticism teaches us that self-loss is the deepest form of self-discovery."

"We desire the impossible precisely because it resists our attempts at possession."

"We mistake desire for love and call our hunger connection."

"Love is the recognition of the particular in an age of abstraction."

"The erotic is a loss of self in the other."

"The erotic is the soul revealed through flesh."

"To love is to accept the other's fundamental otherness."

"Love cannot flourish where everything is calculated and exchanged."

"Love that ignores social contradiction cannot sustain itself."