Denis de Rougemont

“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.”

“Romance only comes into existence where love is fatal, frowned upon and doomed by life itself.”

“This peculiar connexion between a certain view of woman and the European conception of war has had profound consequences for morality, education, and politics.”