Amantes Sunt Amentes Quotes

“women are the pivot on which everything turns!”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina

“It is crazy to want the impossible. And impossible for the wicked not to do so.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

“Cada día te pareces un poco más al cadáver que serás y yo te amo siempre.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre, Le diable et le bon dieu

“¿Por qué fatalidad ha sido preciso que lo que hace y constituye la dicha del hombre, sea tan a menudo el origen, y la causa de su infortunio?”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, The Sorrows of Young Werther

“Love is a kind of insanity, and many people have, while crazed with passion, ruined their lives and those of others.”
― Jonathan Haidt, The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom

“¿Qué valor tiene un amor que obliga a una vigilancia incesante?
- Ninguno. Pero esto no lo comprenderá jamás el típico celoso.”
― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Los hermanos Karamázov

“Para algunos, no puede haber amor verdadero sin la muerte; tal es el tema romántico por excelencia, el de Tristán e Isolda, el de Romeo y Julieta, el de Filemón y Baucis, el de los amantes de Mayerling.”
― Louis-Vincent Thomas, Antropologia de la muerte

“La búsqueda de una buena pareja subyace a casi todo lo que realizan los seres humanos, desde entablar amistades hasta despreciar a los competidores, desde la búsqueda de prestigio hasta la motivación para el asesinato.”
― David M. Buss, The Evolution Of Desire: Strategies of Human Mating

“Love develops for every evolutionary pairing that requires devotion.”
― Heather E. Heying, A Hunter-Gatherer's Guide to the 21st Century: Evolution and the Challenges of Modern Life

“...lasting love is something a person has to decide to experience. Lifelong monogamous devotion is just not natural -not for women even, and emphatically not for men. It requires what, for lack of a better term, we can call an act of will.”
― Robert Wright, The Moral Animal: Why We Are the Way We Are - The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology

“Human beings all know that they are going to die, and so human cultures go to great lenghts to construct systems of meaning that dignify life and convince people that their lives have more meaning than those of the animals that die all around them. The extensive regulation of sex in many cultures, the attempt to link love to God and then to cut away the sex, is part of an elaborate defense against the gnawing fear of morality.”
― Jonathan Haidt, The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom

“Love, sex, and eroticism, with their hormone rush and idealized images, on the one hand, and deep frustrations, on the other, have been variably perceived as either a major source of transcedence or the nadir of the profane.”
― Azar Gat, Ideological Fixation: From the Stone Age to Today's Culture Wars

“De todas las palabras desgastadas, erosionadas y ensuciadas que hay en nuestro vocabulario, -amor- es seguramente la más pestilente, maloliente y estropeada. Proferida desde un millón de púlpitos, lascivamente entonada en cientos de millones de altavoces, se ha convertido en un ultraje al buen gusto y a los sentimientos decentes, una obscenidad que cualquiera duda en pronunciar. Y sin embargo, es preciso pronunciarla, ya que, después de todo, el amor tiene la última palabra.”
― Aldous Huxley, Huxley and God: Essays on Religious Experience

“Don’t waste your time here worrying about other people -unless it affects the common good. It will keep you from doing anything useful. You'll be too preoccupied with that so-and-so is doing, and why, and what they're saying, and what they're thinking, and what they're up to, and all the other things that throw you off and keep you from focusing on your own mind.”
― Marcus Aurelius