Quotes About Passion

He would praise her beyond the moon and stars, and that so sweetly and ravishingly, as I persuade myself he was more in love with his own curious forming fancy than her face; and truth is, many become passionate lovers only to win praise to their wits.

Amor est mihi causa sequendi - I serve because I love.

In stating these matters, I speak an open and disinterested language, dictated by no passion but that of humanity. To me, who have not only refused offers, because I thought them improper, but have declined rewards I might with reputation have accepted, it is no wonder that meanness and imposition appear disgustful. Independence is my happiness, and I view things as they are, without regard to place or person; my country is the world, and my religion is to do good.

When the tongue or the pen is let loose in a frenzy of passion, it is the man, and not the subject, that becomes exhausted.

There is something in obstinacy which differs from every other passion; whenever it fails it never recovers, but either breaks like iron or crumbles sulkily away like a fractured arch. Most other passions have their periods of fatigue and rest; their suffering and their cure; but obstinacy has no resource, and the first wound is mortal.

Benjamin Franklin'i bilenler zihninin daima genç, karakterinin de daima dingin olduÄŸunu hat?rlayacakt?r; asla yaÅŸlanmayan bilim, daima onun sevgilisi olmuÅŸtur. Hiçbir zaman amaçs?z kalmam??t?r; amaçs?z kal?rsak, hastanede ölümü bekleyen bir sakattan fark?m?z kalmaz.

Love of life is the primal impulse.

Let those love now who never loved before;Let those who always loved, now love the more.

They're in love. Fuck the war.

They're in love. Fuck the war.

Choose your love. Love your choice.

We have to imagine and create, we have to fantasize, or there's nothing. Passion, desire, romance-those things don't exist unless we make them happen

Liberty without Love is Destruction, and Love without Liberty is Despair.

To be successful, you have to have your heart in your business, and your business in your heart.

Love is such a grace as we know not how to be without. A soldier may as well be without his weapons, an artist without his pencil, a musician without his instrument, as a Christian can be without love.

Lusts within are worse than lions without.

Love is a holy fuel. It fires the affections, steels the courage, and carries a Christian above the love of life, and the fear of death.

Better to lose our lives than the purpose of our living.

Self-love raises a sickbed vow, and love of sin will prevail against it. Trust not to a passionate resolution; it is raised in a storm and will die in a calm.

Simon Stimson: "...That's what it was to be alive. To move about in a cloud of ignorance; to go up and down trampling on the feelings of those about you. To spend and waste time as though you had a million years. To be always at the mercy of one self-centered passion, or another.

He regarded love as a sort of cruel malady through which the elect are required to pass in their late youth and from which they emerge, pale and wrung, but ready for the business of living.

That's what it was like to be alive. To move about in a cloud of ignorance; to go up and down trampling on the feelings of those...of those about you. To spend and waste time as though you had a million years. To be always at the mercy of one self-centered passion, or another. Now you know- that's the happy existence you wanted to go back to. Ignorance and blindness. -Simon Stimson, OUR TOWN

You've got to love life to have life, and you've got to have life to love life.

Love is its own eternity.