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Quotes About Passion

I must have something to engross my thoughts some object in life which will fill this vacuum and prevent this sad wearing away of the heart.
~ Elizabeth Blackwell
Years of love have been forgot, In the hatred of a minute.
~ Edgar Allan Poe
Love your calling with passion, it is the meaning of your life.
~ Auguste Rodin
It's a marriage. If I had to choose between my wife and my putter, well, I'd miss her.
~ Gary Player
Creativity begins with an affinity for something. It's like falling in love.
~ Howard Gardner
Love is everything it's cracked up to be. It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.
~ Erica Jong
A long-term marriage has to move beyond chemistry to compatibility, to friendship, to companionship. It is certainly not that passion disappears, but that it is conjoined with other ways of love.
~ Madeleine L'Engle
By the time you swear you're his, Shivering and sighing. And he vows his passion is, Infinite, undying. Lady make note of this -- One of you is lying.
~ Dorothy Parker
Lust is the sin that gets me excited. Luckily, because I'm married, I also get really good jewelry out of it.
~ Heather Locklear
Can't you read? The score demands 'con amore,' and what are you doing? You are playing it like married men!
~ Arturo Toscanini
Reason is not what decides love.
~ Moliere
Conflicts create the fire of affects and emotions; and like every fire it has two aspects: that of burning and that of giving light.
~ Carl Jung
An affair now and then is good for a marriage. It adds spice, stops it from getting boring... I ought to know.
~ Bette Davis
The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.
~ Iris Murdoch
Be loyal to what you love, be true to the earth, fight your enemies with passion and laughter.
~ Edward Abbey
Writing a short story is like having a short intense affair, whereas writing a novel is like a long rich marriage.
~ Jonathan Carroll
The first step is to find out what you love - and don't be practical about it. The second step is to start doing what you love immediately, in any small way possible.
~ Barbara Sher
The more I wonder, the more I love.
~ Alice Walker
What we love about love is the fever, which marriage puts to bed and cures.
~ Mignon McLaughlin
Love is a fever which marriage puts to bed and cures.
~ Richard J. Needham
I love you more than I hate everything else.
~ Rainbow Rowell, Landline
Men would like monogamy better if it sounded less like monotony.
~ Rita Rudner
The important thing is not to think much but to love much; do, then, whatever most arouses you to love.
~ Teresa of Avila
Love is an irreresisistible desire to be irresistibily desired.
~ Mark Twain