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 RougemontMots clés 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 RougemontMots clés 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 RougemontMots clés 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 RougemontMots clés love society romance fatal
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