Quotes About Passion

Love...is also a form of poison, for to fall in love is to want and to need everything necessary for survival from one all-powerful and barely differentiated Other.

i heard on their lips the language of passion, of betrayal and jealousy, and sometimes despair - languages with which I was all too familiar.

We only do well the things we like doing.

Je sais très bien, depuis longtemps, que j'ai un cœur déraisonnable, mais, de le savoir, ça ne m'arrête pas du tout.

It is absurd to suppose that periods empty of love are blank pages in a woman's life. The truth is just the reverse. What remains to be said about a passionate love affair? It can be told in three lines. He loved me, I loved Him. His presence obliterated all other presences. We were happy. Then He stopped loving me and I suffered.

Her stormy eyes, her sincere sensuality, the softness of her skin and her voice

I've known perfectly well, for a long time, that I have an irrational heart. But knowing it doesn't stop me in the least.

One can't write of love while making love.

Faites des bêtises, mais faites-les avec enthousiasme

car écrire ne conduit qu'à écrire.

He varied his theme, embellished it with vocalizations , fell in love with his voice, became this distraught, intoxicated and panting singer, whom one listens to with the unbearable desire to see him sing.-Colette, Les Vrilles de la Vigne

Can one exist on lukewarmness?

hatred is degenerated love

And so, although I have no lyre, I sing: For there is a desire, within me - a self-taught hymn

Es difícil luchar contra el ánimo de uno, pues aquello que se desea le cuesta a uno el alma

I wake up in the morning, I do a little stretching exercises, pick up the horn and play.

If you do not love, you will not be alive; if you love effectively, you will be killed.

Love wasn't just a soft, easy thing of the senses. It was hard, deep, austere.

He was just head over ears in love, with a young woman as near as his hand and as remote as a star, and for the moment it was enough to be where she was.

To be able to throw one's self away for the sake of a moment, to be able to sacrifice years for a woman's smile - that is happiness.

As the time goes by, you change, your learn new things, your attitude is different. For the moment, I'm still enjoying ski racing so much that it would be difficult for me to think about ending my career.

Since her marriage, she had been left free to pursue her love of literature, inherited

From their eyelids as they glanced dripped love.

I still love doing what I do, and I'm really lucky to get up in the morning and want to go to work.