Quotes About Passion

we had better bear in mind also something that I am not the first or the smartest writer to notice: that for the making and sustenance of movements hatred is more effective than love.

think I have sort of an odd aversion, almost like a chemical sensitivity, when it comes to other people's enthusiasm.

I chose philosophy because it sounded like something I ought to be interested in. I didn't know anything about it, I didn't even know what it was talking about. What I really spent my time doing in those years was writing short stories. There were all sorts of interesting courses, but what I really wanted to do was make stories one way or another.

I think you've still got lightning in you.

All you have to go on is the faith of a kiss.

but she never knew what it was like to walk away from the thing she had most wanted. Years later she would say, Photography allowed me to make the world and be in the world.

She remembered her fingers threaded through his hair and his kisses in places that made her long for him years later.

Young love has a peculiar splendor all of its own.

A man's passion is like a fire in tall, dry grass, hot and furious but soon spent. A woman is like a magician's cauldron that must simmer long upon the coals before it can bring forth its spell. Be swift in all things but love.

When two people are in love, few things on earth are as fascinating to them as their love itself.

At sixty, I worshiped her with the volcanic ardour of eighteen. All the gold of my rich nature was poured hopelessly at her feet. My wife – poor angel! – my wife, who adores me, got nothing but the shillings and the pennies. Such is the Work, such Man, such Love. What are we (I ask) but puppets in a show-box? Oh, omnipotent Destiny, pull our strings gently! Dance us mercifully off our miserable little stage!

I am (thank God!) constitutionally superior to reason.

Lo que no está en mi corazón, no lo escribirá mi pluma.

I should never, perhaps, have heard even the name of the woman who has lived in all my thoughts, who has possessed herself of all my energies, who has become the one guiding influence that now directs the purpose of my life.

To-day we love, what to-morrow we hate.

the thought of you, my dears, mounts like blood to my head...

I found her at the head of the sofa when I returned. She was just touching his forehead with her lips. I shook my head as soberly as I could and pointed to her chair. She looked back at me with a bright smile and a charming colour in her face. You would have done it, she whispered. In my place.

It is true that love soars higher than the other passions; but it can stoop lower as well.

Bunlar? okuduktan sonra ba??m? yana çevirip yüreÄŸime saplanan sanc?y? belli etmemek için elimden geleni yapt?m. Onu çok sevdiÄŸimin fark?ndayd?m ama, o ana kadar derecesini bilmediÄŸimi anlam??t?m.

I said, No man is worth fretting for in that way. And she said, There are men worth dying for, Lucy, and he is one of them.

some to business, some to pleasure take, But every woman is at heart a rake.' The

There are not many things finer in our murderous species than this noble curiosity, this restless and reckless passion to understand.

Human behavior, says Plato, flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.

passion without reason is blind, reason without passion is dead.