The Tears of Eros Quotes

“In the violence of overcoming, in the disorder of my laughter and my sobbing, in the excess of raptures that shatter me, I seize on the similarity between a horror and a voluptuousness that goes beyond me, between an ultimate pain and an unbearable joy!”
― Georges Bataille, The Tears of Eros

“We usually associate religion with law and reason. But if we confine ourselves to what grounds religions as a whole, we are forced to reject this notion. Religion is doubtlessly, even in essence, subversive: it turns away from the observance of laws. At least, what it demands is excess, sacrifice, and the feast, which culminates in ecstasy.”
― Georges Bataille, The Tears of Eros