Quotes About Passion

a really GRANDE PASSION is comparatively rare nowadays. It is the privilege of people who have nothing to do.

I would give my soul for that!

We degenerate into hideous puppets, haunted by the memory of the passions of which we were too much afraid, and the exquisite temptations that we had not the courage to yield to. Youth! Youth! There is absolutely nothing in the world but youth!

Romantic art begins with its climax.

it was never to accept any theory or system that would involve the sacrifice of any mode of passionate experience. Its aim, indeed, was to be experience itself, and not the fruits of experience, sweet or bitter as they might be.

Unconsciously he defines for me the lines of a fresh new school, a school that is to have in it all the passion of the romantic spirit, all the perfection of the spirit that is Greek. The harmony of soul and body - how much that is! We in our madness have separated the two, and have invented a realism that is vulgar, an ideality that is void. Harry! If only you knew what Dorian Gray is to me!

Love is a more wonderful thing than art.

I'll see if I can't make the bitter waters sweet by the intensity of love I bear you

Women spoil every romance by trying to make it last forever.

He loves first editions, especially of women: little girls are his passion.

They spoil every romance by trying to make it last for ever. It is a meaningless word, too. The only difference between a caprice and a lifelong passion is that the caprice lasts a little longer.

Between men and women there is no friendship possible.  There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship. 

passion makes one think in a circle

He had mad hungers that grew more ravenous as he fed them.

Mediaevalism, with its saints and martyrs, its love of self-torture, its wild passion for wounding itself, its gashing with knives, and its whipping with rods—Mediaevalism is real Christianity, and the mediaeval Christ is the real Christ.  When the Renaissance dawned upon the world, and brought with it the new ideals of the beauty of life and the joy of living, men could not understand Christ. 

he had been filled with terror lest other eyes should look upon it. It had brought melancholy across his passions. Its mere memory had marred many moments of joy. It had been like conscience to him. Yes, it had been conscience. He would destroy it.

No Artist is ever morbid. The artist can express everything.

Shallow sorrows and shallow loves live on... The loves and sorrows that are great are destroyed by their own plentitude.

Faithfulness! I must analyse it some day. The passion for property is in it. There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.

very essence of romance is uncertainty. 

Pentru a-È›i recâÈ™tiga tinereÈ›ea trebuie doar s?-È›i repeÈ›i nebuniile.

Seni dünyadaki her ÅŸeyden daha çok seviyorum diye böyle zalim davranma bana.

The very essence of romance is uncertainty. If I ever get married, I'll certainly try to forget the fact.

There was something terribly enthralling in the exercise of influence. No other activity was like it. To project one's soul into some gracious form, and let it tarry there for a moment; to hear one's own intellectual views echoed back to one with all the added music of passion and youth;