Quotes About Passion

Lawrence arrossì, imbarazzato, poi sorrise. Un uomo innamorato è sempre uno spettacolo penoso.

Women are like that. When they are enraged they have great strength.

What was this passion that attacked women for knitting under the most unpropitious conditions? A woman did not look her best knitting; the absorption, the glassy eyes, the restless, busy fingers! One needed the agility of a wild cat, and the will-power of a Napoleon to manage to knit in a crowded tube, but women managed it! If they succeeded in obtaining a seat, out came a miserable little strip of shrimp pink and click, click went the pins!

L'amour, it causes many fatalities, does it not?

I've been in love once and if I felt it coming on again I tell you I'd emigrate.

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.

The things that are worthwhile are usually accomplished by someone with enthusiasm and drive...

Surely, I thought, in a world where man has been able to put satellites in the sky and where men talk big about visiting the stars, there must be something that rouses you, that makes your heart beat, that's worthwhile searching all over the world to find!

Il guaio, con me, era che avevo voluto sempre troppe cose, e le avevo volute con avidità e senza essere disposto a rinunciare a niente.

For sheer primitive rage, commend me to a thoroughgoing humanitarian when you get him well roused.

To play the comedy successfully, you must put the heart into it.

jealousy is a pretty good motive for murder – and a pretty common one, too.

A man in love is an awful sight.

So long as you didn't expect her to talk. He thanked his stars he wasn't married to her. Once you got used to all that perfection of face and form where would you be? She couldn't even listen intelligently. The sort of girl who would expect you to tell her every morning at the breakfast table that you loved her passionately!

This seems to have taken me a long way from detective stories, but explains, perhaps, why I have got more interest in my victims than my criminals. The more passionately alive the victim, the more glorious indignation I have on his behalf, and am full of a delighted triumph when I have delivered a near-victim out of the valley of the shadow of death. Returning

Creo que la gente mata con mayor frecuencia a los que quiere que a los que odia. Posiblemente porque sólo aquéllos a quienes uno quiere de verdad pueden desbaratar nuestra vida.

No, my death should take place in a blaze of excitement. I would live before I died.

She is in love—heart, soul, and body—and she is not of those who love lightly and often.

Hasta el propio Romeo, como sabes, tuvo su Rosalinda antes de que le sorbiera el seso Julieta.

Hate isn't creative." - Stillingfleet

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. - Old Man Charles

pero en el amor era espantosamente unilateral. Porque ella sentía una pasión profunda y avasalladora por Amyas Crale, dio por sentado que él abrigaría los mismos sentimientos hacia ella. Dio por sentado que su enamoramiento sería eterno.

Fire in her eyes, ice in her voice. I did not wonder that the blood rose to John's face in a crimson tide.

Lawrence lived in the midst of an artistic disarray that would have driven me quite mad.