Quotes About Passion

People seldom appreciated just how vital and positive raw hatred could be.

The events of the day inspired me to become a lawyer.

You can give men food and leisure and amusements and good conditions of work, and still they will remain unsatisfied. You can deny them all these things, and they will not complain so long as they feel that they have something to die for.

May felt exhilarated around Bryant. He had always imagined that somewhere out there, away from suburban dullness, ardent young people were allowed to give freer rein to their thoughts. He felt as though he had arrived at a place he had always wanted to be.

I am very much in love with something; What it may be I can't remember; It will come to me. That was a roundabout drive in the snow, Owing to my erratic sense of direction!

Do you want our spirits to hobble out of their graves Enduring twinges of hopeless human affection As long as death shall last? Still to suffer Pain in the amputated limb! To feel Passion in vacuo! That is the sort of thing That causes sun-spots, and the lord knows what Infirmities in the firmament.

For God's sake hang me, before I love that woman!

Sex makes me the kind of happy that I usually only manage to be in dreams.

Love cannot express the idea of music, while music may give an idea of love.

Passionate subjects must be dealt with in cold blood.

A new breed of ministers is rising up who will not wear out for the gospel. They are so caught up in passion, unity, and fullness that they run out and say, "World, here I come!" If they go into places where they get shot at, they are thrilled. If they do not get shot at, they are thrilled. If the place they go is filthy, they are thrilled. If it is clean, they are thrilled. Jesus is the joy set before them. He is their exceedingly great reward.

Days were ages. Loved bloomed and died in a day.

Feelings can even kill such good hard things as love and hate.

Feelings can kill such good hard things as love and hate.

An artist is like a woman who can do nothing but love, and who succumbs to every stray male jackass.

All our dreams begin in youth.

What lies lurk in kisses.

Oh, what lies there are in kisses!

I didn't originally intend to be an artist; I was much more interested in decorative arts--daily life, beautiful objects.

Agape mou,' he began in a voice husky with emotion. 'You crept beneath my skin, affected me as no other woman did, or ever will, and you invaded my heart, my soul. Until you became the very air I breathe. You. Only you.

O Lyric Love, half angel and half bird, And all a wonder and a wild desire! Robert Browning

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Romantic love is an addiction: a perfectly wonderful addiction when it's going well, and a perfectly horrible addiction when it's going poorly.

People live for love. They kill for love. They die for love. They have songs, poems, novels, sculptures, paintings, myths, legends. It's one of the most powerful brain systems on Earth for both great joy and great sorrow.