whateverjeanne:

“Love is a phenomenon which takes place on the imaginary level, and which provokes a veritable seduction of the symbolic, a sort of annihilation, of perturbation of the function of the ego-ideal.” -Jacques Lacan, The Seminars

“Love kills, unconditionally.” -Donna Haraway, The Companion Species Manifesto

“The finding of an object is in fact a re-finding of it.” -Sigmund Freud, Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality

“The two persons become well acquainted, their intimacy loses more and more its miraculous character, until their antagonism, their disappointments, their mutual boredom kill whatever is left of the initial excitement.” -Erich Fromm, The Art of Loving

“Let you put your hands on me, in my skin tight jeans, be your teenage dream tonight.” -Katy Perry, Teenage Dream

“For the erotic is not a question only of what we do; it is a question of how acutely and fully we can feel in the doing.” -Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider

“Desire is neither the appetite for satisfaction nor the demand for love, but the difference which results from the subtraction of the first from the second - the very phenomenon of their splitting.” -Jacques Lacan, Écrits

“Love is a battlefield.” –Pat Benatar