Quotes About Passion

She was usually in love with somebody, and, as her passion was never returned, she kept all her illusions. She tried to look picturesque, but only succeeded in being untidy.

Difference of object does not alter singleness of passion. It merely intensifies it. We can have in life but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible.

She was free in her prison on passion

Sibyl Vane to love me! I want to make Romeo jealous. I want the dead lovers of the world to hear our laughter and grow sad. I want a breath of our passion to stir their dust into consciousness, to wake their ashes into pain. My God, Harry, how I worship her! He was walking up and down the room as he spoke. Hectic spots of red burned on his cheeks. He was terribly excited.

love is not safe

To be in love is to surpass one's self.

Ningún artista es morboso. El artista está capacitado para expresarlo todo.

If a man treats life artistically, his brain is his heart.

I'm too fond of reading books to care to write them.

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

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

To have ruined one's self over poetry is an honour.

Realize your youth while you have it. Don't squander the gold of your days, listening to the tedious, trying to improve the hopeless failure, or giving away your life to the ignorant, the common, and the vulgar. These are the sickly aims, the false ideals, of our age. Live! Live the wonderful life that is in you! Let nothing be lost upon you. Be always searching for new sensations. Be afraid of nothing.

Una grande passion es el privilegio de quienes no tienen nada que hacer.

Amar es superarse

The only difference between a caprice and a life-long passion is that the caprice lasts a little longer.

I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works.

Les personnes qui m'ont adoré (...) se sont obstinées à vivre bien au-delà du terme de mon amour pour elles ou de leur amour pour moi.

Romance lives by repetition, and repetition converts an appetite into an art. Besides, each time that one loves is the only time one has ever loved. Difference of object does not alter singleness of passion. It merely intensifies it. We can have in life but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible.

The very essence of romance is uncertainty. If

I wish I could love," cried Dorian Gray with a deep note of pathos in his voice. "But I seem to have lost the passion and forgotten the desire. I am too much concentrated on myself. My own personality has become a burden to me.

Or that passion to act a part that sometimes makes us do things finer than we are ourselves?

a new Hedonism that was to recreate life and to save it from that harsh uncomely puritanism that is having, in our own day, its curious revival. It was to have its service of the intellect, certainly, yet it was never to accept any theory or system that would involve the sacrifice of any mode of passionate experience.

You will see the girl to whom I am going to give all my life, to whom I have given everything that is good in me.