Love ceases to be a demon only when he ceases to be a god.
Denis de Rougemont[...] 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.
Denis de RougemontTags: love passion mind obsession
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.
Denis de RougemontTags: love passion suffering poets
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.
Denis de RougemontTags: present love passion possession never-ending askesis
Romance only comes into existence where love is fatal, frowned upon and doomed by life itself.
Denis de RougemontTags: love society romance fatal
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