Quotes About Passion

Life that means for us to transform constantly into light and flame all that we are, or meet with.

There is always some madness in love. But there is always, also, some method in madness.

Many short follies—that is called love by you. And your marriage putteth an end to many short follies, with one long stupidity.

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And just look at these men: their eye saith it - they know nothing better on earth than to be with a woman. Filth is at the bottom of their souls; and alas! If their filth hath spirit in it!

Todo lo que se hace por amor, se hace más allá del bien y del mal.

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Our whole science is still, in spite of all its coldness, of all its freedom from passion, a dupe of the tricks of language, and has never succeeded in getting rid of that superstitious changeling "the subject" (the atom, to give another instance, is such a changeling, just as the Kantian "Thing-in-itself").

Ik houd van hem, die vrij van geest en vrij van hart is: aldus is zijn hoofd slechts het ingewand van zijn hart; zijn hart echter drijft hem tot ondergang.

The degree and type of the sexuality of a man extend all the way to the ultimate peak of his spirit.

I have at all times written my writings with my whole heart and soul: I do not know what purely intellectual problems are.

One must have chaos and frenzy within oneself to give birth to a dancing star.

Sensuality often forces the growth of love too much, so that its root remains weak, and is easily torn up.

It is true: we love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving. There is always a certain madness in love. But also there is always a certain method in madness.

It is true: we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is always some madness in love. But there is always also some reason in madness.

Du gehst zu Frauen? Vergiss die Peitsche nicht!

And when a person goeth through fire for his teaching -- what doth that prove! It is more, verily, when out of one's own burning cometh one's own teaching!

The great works are produced in such an ecstasy of love that they must always be unworthy of it, however great their worth otherwise.

Let the young soul survey its own life with a view of the following question: 'What have you truly loved thus far? What has ever uplifted your soul, what has dominated and delighted it at the same time?

The genius, in work and deed, is necessarily a squanderer: he squanders himself. That is his greatness! … He flows out, he overflows, he uses himself up, he does not spare himself—and this is a calamitous involuntary fatality, no less than a river's flooding the land.

Die Sinnlichkeit übereilt oft das Wachsthum der Liebe, so dass die Wurzel schwach bleibt und leicht auszureissen ist.

Man liebt zuletzt seine Begierde, und nicht das Begehrte.

man who loves like a woman becomes thereby a slave ; a woman, however, who loves like a woman

In music the passions enjoy themselves.