Quotes About Passion

Great thoughts always come from the heart.

The heart has reasons which reason cannot understand.

To live is like to love: all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct is for it.

The thinker philosophizes as the lover loves. Even were the consequences not only useless but harmful, he must obey his impulse.

Our real duty is always found running in the direction of our worthiest desires.

The essential conditions of everything you do must be choice, love, passion.

The conclusions of passion are the only reliable ones.

Life is not governed by will or intention. Life is a question of nerves, and fibers, and slowly built-up cells in which thought hides itself, and passion has its dreams.

We do not wish ardently for what we desire only through reason.

I write out of instinct.

Lord Birkenhead is very clever but sometimes his brains go to his head. All zeal runs down. What replaces it? Intellectualism.

Out of love you can speak with straight fury.

Open my heart and you will see Graved inside of it, "Italy."

It was thy kiss, Love, that made me immortal.

Give me a kisse, and to that kisse a score; Then to that twenty, adde a hundred more; A thousand to that hundred; so kisse on, To make that thousand up a million; Treble that million, and when that is done, Let's kisse afresh, as when we first begun.

A long, long kiss, a kiss of youth, and love.

Stolen kisses are always sweetest.

Life is action and passion; therefore, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of the time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.

Basically, I'm interested in friendship, sex and death.

What a grand thing, to be loved! What a grander thing still, to lovel

Medicine is my lawful wife. Literature is my mistress.

Love cannot accept what it is. Everywhere on earth it cries out against kindness, compassion, intelligence, everything that leads to compromise. Love demands the impossible, the absolute, the sky on fire, inexhaustible springtime, life after death, and death itself transfigured into eternal life.

A man after his own heart.

The only things that distinguish us from the rest of the animals, Madam is our habit of drinking when we are not thirsty and making love at any time.