Quotes About Passion

The instinctive passion of the masses for economic equality is so great that if they could hope to receive it from the hands of despotism, they would indubitably and without much reflection do as they have often done before, and deliver themselves to despotism.

Sometimes inspiration hits in the middle of the night and I want to get up and work on it. It's that spark of immediacy. For me, it's a tap which is on all the time.

Passion is terrifying, it can rock you, change you, bring your head under, as when a wind rises from the bottom of the sea, and you're out there in the craft of your mortality, alone.

It is true that love is rooted in appetite, and that appetite has a survival value which I, at least, cannot find in the purely contemplative emotions.

When you go in and do a cool, small character, it feels less like work and more like fun.

Être aimé d'elle, ou mourir.

If light is the first love of life, is not love a light to the heart?

But the maladies by which a man is afflicted do not nullify the sum total of human passion. To our shame be it spoken, a woman is never so much attached to us as when we are sick.

But in the glance at once tender and wild, swift and deep, which that woman's black eyes had shot at him by stealth, there was such a world of buried sorrows and promised joys!

According to the greater or lesser violence of your sensual passion, you have perhaps discerned some of those twenty-two pleasures which in other times created in Greece twenty-two kinds of courtesans, devoted especially to these delicate branches of the same art.

Infuse with passion, then, if you will, this friendship, and let the voice of love disturb its calm.

Independently of any gesture of repulsion, there exists in the soul of all women a sentiment which tends, sooner or later, to proscribe all pleasure devoid of passionate feeling.

Thwarted passion and mortified vanity are great babblers.

In a lover the coarsest desire always shows itself as a burst of honest admiration.

Love is the union between natural craving and sentiment.

The married woman who is the most chaste may be also the most voluptuous.

Like an eagle darting on his prey, he took her utterly to him, set her on his knees, and felt with an indescribable intoxication the voluptuous pressure of this girl, whose richly developed beauties softly enveloped him.

A man loves with more or less passion according to the number of cords which his pretty mistress binds to his heart.

How hungry one's heart gets!

A woman's life begins with her first passion.

Yesterday, at the Italian Opera, I could feel some one was looking at me; my eyes were drawn, as by a magnet, to two wells of fire, gleaming like carbuncles in a dim corner of the orchestra. Henarez never moved his eyes from me. The wretch had discovered the one spot from which he could see me—and there he was. I don't know what he may be as a politician, but for love he has a genius.

How mad a man must appear when desire renders him alternately angry and tender, insolent and abject, biting as an epigram and soothing as a madrigal!

Anything may be expected and anything may be supposed of a woman who is in love.

To follow the impulse of love and feeling is the secret law of every woman's heart.