Quotes About Passion

We do not spontaneously learn that we don't learn that we don't learn. The problem lies in the structure of our minds: we don't learn rules, just facts, and only facts. Metarules (such as the rule that we have a tendency to not learn rules) we don't seem to be good at getting. We scorn the abstract; we scorn it with passion.

If you can't put your soul into something, give it up and leave that stuff to someone else.

Hatred is much harder to fake than love. You hear of fake love; never of fake hate.

Simply: if you can't put your soul into something, give it up and leave that stuff to someone else.

It costs a lot of energy to fake that you're not bored.

We do not spontaneously learn that we don't learn that we don't learn. The problem lies in the structure of our minds: we don't learn rules, just facts, and only facts. Metarules (such as the rule that we have a tendency to not learn rules) we don't seem to be good at getting. We scorn the abstract; we scorn it with passion

We scorn the abstract; we scorn it with passion.

people might prefer to do something other than maximize their economic interests.

You really have to love words if you're going to be a writer, because as a writer, you certainly spend a lot of time with words.

Le pire n'est pas que l'on se brûle, mais que le feu s'éteint.

Bientôt ou dans un cycle, ce sera de nouveau son tour de me prouver la qualité de son feu. Je ne lui manquerai pas, elle ne me manquera pas--et tout sera consumé.

Most people live and die with their music still unplayed, they never dare to try. But I tell you, If music be the food of love, play on.

Feeling is of the heart and nerves and the crudeness of its expression has nothing to do with its intensity.

Romantic love is a passionate spiritual-emotional-sexual attachment between a man and a woman that reflects a high regard for the value of each other's person.

Someone who loves us passionately is motivated to know and understand us to a greater depth than someone with whom our relationship is more casual.

Someone who loves us passionately is motivated to know and understand us to a greater depth than someone with whom our relationship is more casual. What does one often hear from people who are in love? "He (she) understands me as I have never felt understood before.

This is one of the reasons why attempts at relationships so often fail—not because the vision of passionate or romantic love is intrinsically irrational, but because the self-esteem needed to support it is absent.

On the deepest level Christianity has always been a fierce opponent of romantic love.

But this had been a sin of passion, not of principle, nor even purpose.

Let men tremble to win the hand of woman, unless they win along with it the utmost passion of her heart! Else it may be their miserable fortune, when some mightier touch than their own may have awakened all her sensibilities, to be reproached even for the calm content, the marble image of happiness, which they will have imposed upon her as the warm reality.

By all appreciable signs, they loved; they had looked love, with eyes that conveyed the holy secret from the depths of one soul into the depths of the other, as if it were too sacred to be whispered by the way; they had even spoken love, in those gushes of passion when their spirits darted forth in articulated breath, like tongues of long-hidden flame; and yet there had been no seal of lips, no clasp of hands, nor any slightest caress, such as love claims and hallows.

The influential classes, and those who take upon themselves to be leaders of the people, are fully liable to all the passionate error that has ever characterized the maddest mob.

I sometimes fancy, said Hilda, on whose susceptibility the scene always made a strong impression, that Rome--mere Rome--will crowd everything else out of my heart.

Like all other music, it breathed passion and pathos, and emotions high or tender, in a tongue native to the human heart, wherever educated.