quotations about Adam & Eve
The true unconscious is the well-head, the fountain of real motivity. The sex of which Adam and Eve became conscious derived from the very God who bade them be not conscious of it.
D.H. LAWRENCE
Psychoanalysis and the Unconscious
Whilst Adam slept, Eve from his side arose:
Strange his first sleep should be his last repose.
UNKNOWN
The Consequence
Adam and Eve had many advantages but the principal one was, that they escaped teething.
MARK TWAIN
Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar
Do you realise that Eve was the only woman who ever took a man's side?
MILTON BERLE
attributed, Humor from the Net
Let's go down to the apple tree
Naive as Adam and Eve
Oh oh oh, oh oh oh
Let's go down to the apple tree
Fighting against gravity
NINA NESBITT
"The Apple Tree", Peroxide
All the world was Adam once, with Eve by his side.
JEAN INGELOW
Like a Laverock in the Lift
If we sink into the suffering that's right for us,
Our dreams will have all that Adam and Eve wept for.
ROBERT BLY
"Shabistari and The Secret Garden"
Adam & Eve have been degraded, reduplicated forever, photocopies of photocopies, mistakes copied, magnified, augmented.
JOHNNY RICH
The Human Script
Since antiquity, one story has stood at the center of every conversation about men and women. One couple has been the battleground for human relationships and sexual identity. That couple is Adam and Eve.
BRUCE FEILER
The First Love Story: A Journey Through the Tangled Lives of Adam and Eve
Ever since Eve gave Adam the apple, there has been a misunderstanding between the sexes about gifts.
NAN ROBERTSON
New York Times, November 28, 1957
We're simple and innocent again, like Adam and Eve. None of those complications about good and evil: Everything is very simple, childishly simple--Paradise!
YEVGENY ZAMYATIN
We
God did not "saw" Adam asunder, but split him in two, and made Eve out of one half.
S.C. MAIAN
The Book of Adam and Eve
When Eve upon the first of Men
The apple press'd with specious cant,
Oh, what a thousand pities then
That Adam was not Adam-ant!
THOMAS HOOD
A Reflection
Oh, but of course the story of Adam and Eve was only ever symbolic, wasn't it? Symbolic?! So Jesus had himself tortured and executed for a symbolic sin by a non-existent individual? Nobody not brought up in the faith could reach any verdict other than "barking mad".
RICHARD DAWKINS
The Root of All Evil?
It was with a good end in mind -- that of acquiring the knowledge of good and evil -- that Eve allowed herself to be carried away and eat the forbidden fruit. But Adam was not moved by this desire for knowledge, but simply by greed: he ate it because he heard Eve say it tasted good.
MODERATA FONTE
The Worth of Women: Wherein Is Clearly Revealed Their Nobility and Their Superiority to Men
Eve was not taken out of Adam's head to top him, neither out of his feet to be trampled on by him, but out of his side to be equal with him, under his arm to be protected by him, and near his heart to be loved by him.
MATHEW HENRY
Happy Spouse ... Happy Spouse: The Best Game Plan for a Winning Marriage
And Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bare Cain, and said, I have gotten a man from the Lord. And she again bare his brother Abel. And Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground.
BIBLE
Genesis 4:1-2
Hold me
To calm my jealousy
Hold me
Forget your history
I need you to show me
We'll be like Adam and Eve
that you love me
I wish you had never loved anyone but me
CARLY SIMON
"Anyone But Me"
God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
BIBLE
Genesis 1:27
'Tis Lilith ... Adam's first wife is she.
Beware the lure within her lovely tresses.
JOHANN WOLFGANG VON GOETHE
Faust