Quotes About Passion

Falling in love is so hard on the knees.

But who can describe the overweening pride of men? Or women mad with passion, reckless in their hearts, soulmates to every kind of ruin that befalls us? Wild passion, unrestrained, boundless, that overcomes the women, perverts the yoke of wedlock for beasts and men alike.

Whatever you do, do with all your might.

If you can't find somethin' to live for, you best find somethin' to die for.

The wise man will love; all others will desire.

But surely for everything you love you have to pay some price.

To care passionately for another human creature brings always more sorrow than joy; but at the same time, Elinor, one would not be without experience. Anyone who has never really loved has never really lived..

Do you know my friend that each one of us is a dark mystery, a maze of conflicting passions and desire and aptitudes?

There speaks the passion and the rebellion that go with red hair. My second wife had red hair. She was a beautiful woman, and she loved me. Strange, is it not? I have always admired red-haired women. Your hair is very beautiful. There are other things I like about you. Your spirit, your courage; the fact that you have a mind of your own. ~Mr. Aristides

I think people more often kill those they love, than those they hate. Possibly because only the people you love can really make life unendurable to you.

Because when you're in love, you think you're invincible. It blinds you. And you don't seem to care.

They say all the world loves a lover—apply that saying to murder and you have an even more infallible truth.

Love can be a very frightening thing." "That is why most great love stories are tragedies.

She had a great power of love and hate but no stability. That's what's so sad for anyone, to be born with no stability.

Write even when you don't want to, don't much like what you are writing, and aren't writing particularly well.

Juliet singles out Romeo. Desdemona claims Othello. They have no doubts, the young, no fear, no pride.

A man in love is a sorry spectacle.

It's awful, isn't it? This love business gets hold of you and you can't do anything about it.

Romance can be a by-product of crime.

You know I want you. You know that I'd give my soul to pick you up in my arms and keep you here, hidden away from the world, forever and ever.

Was there such a thing as a world of romance and adventure somewhere? Where there women whose beauty intoxicated? Was there such a thing as love that devoured one like a flame?

I'm the kind of person who marries enthusiastically if they marry at all.

Fire in her eyes, ice in her voice.

This was genius at close quarters, and genius had that something above normal in it that was a great strain upon the ordinary mind and feeling. All five were different from each other, yet each had that curious quality of burning intensity, the single-mindedness of purpose that made such a terrifying impression. She did not know whether it were a quality of brain or rather a quality of outlook, of intensity. But each of them, she thought, was in his or her way a passionate idealist.