Synonyms for
Eros
Definition
Eros is a Greek god of love and desire.
Synonyms & similar words
Example sentences
- Eros is the god who makes people fall in love.
- Eros is often depicted with wings and a bow and arrow.
- The ancient Greeks believed in the power of Eros to bring love and desire.
- Eros is known as Cupid in Roman mythology.
- Eros is a mischievous and playful god.
Quotes
Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear; the strength so strong mere force is feebleness: the truth more first than sun, more last than star... Eros!... whose right is love, whose other name is love...
Eros is an issue of boundaries. He exists because certain boundaries do. In the interval between reach and grasp, between glance and counterglance, between 'I love you' and 'I love you too,' the absent presence of desire comes alive.
Eros seizes and shakes my very soul like the wind on the mountain shaking ancient oaks.