Quotes About Passion

Nothing more clearly proves the necessity for indissoluble marriage than the instability of passion.

The passion of love is essentially selfish, while motherhood widens the circle of our feelings. How well I felt this difference when I read your kind, tender letter! To see you thus living in three hearts roused my envy. Yes, you are happy; you have had wisdom to obey the laws of social life, whilst I stand outside, an alien.

Al principio de la pasión, los obstáculos asustan a las personas sin experiencia, y los que encontraban los dos amantes se parecían mucho a las ataduras con que los liliputienses habían atado a Gulliver. Eran cosas sin importancia que al multiplicarse hacían imposible todo impulso y anulaban los más violentos deseos.

I promised myself that I would go through everything thoroughly; I would try the ceilings, and floors, and walls, and cornices to discover all the gold, hoarded with such passionate greed by a Dutch miser worthy of a Rembrandt's brush. In all the course of my professional career I have never seen such impressive signs of the eccentricity of avarice.

Tout écrivain porte en son coeur un monstre qui, semblable au taenia dans l'estomac, y dévore les sentiments à mesure qu'ils y éclosent. Qui triomphera ? la maladie de l'homme, ou l'homme de la maladie ? Certes, il faut être un grand homme pour tenir la balance entre son génie et son caractère. Le talent grandit, le coeur se dessèche. A moins d'être un colosse, à moins d'avoir des épaules d'Hercule, on reste ou sans coeur ou sans talent. Vous

De entrada, intimidado por el alto rango de esta mujer, a Lucien le dominaron todos los terrores, las esperanzas y desesperanzas que acompañan al primer amor y lo sitúan de forma tan preeminente en el corazón por los golpes que alternativamente asestan el dolor y el placer.

L'humilité de la courtisane amoureuse comporte des magnificences qui en remontrent aux anges.

L'amour a ses intuitions, comme le génie a les siennes.

Ezek a penziólakók lezajlott vagy még zajló drámákat éreztettek; nem rivaldafényben, festett vásznak közt játszódó drámákat, hanem él? és néma drámákat, fagyos drámákat, amelyek forrón megdobogtatják a szívet, és sohasem múlnak el egészen.

To have children, to have a wife, to adore them — what is it but to have many hearts and bare them to a dagger?" he cried, springing up with the bound of a tiger and walking up and down the room. "To be a father is to give one's self over, bound hand and foot to sorrow.

É tão absurdo dizer que um homem não pode amar a mesma mulher toda a vida, quanto dizer que um violinista precisa de diversos violinos para tocar a mesma música.

She was ignorant of love, having never known it, and, like all the other persons grouped about her, she saw nothing in marriage but a means of fortune. Passion was an unknown thing to these Catholic souls, these old people exclusively concerned about salvation, God, the king, and their property.

If light is the first love of life, is not love the light of the heart?

Il est dans le caractère français de s'enthousiasmer, de se colérer, de se passionner pour le météore du moment, pour les bâtons flottants de l'actualité. Les êtres collectifs, les peuples, seraient-ils donc sans mémoire?

Agathe rose; her scissors and work fell at her feet; she went and kissed Joseph's head, and dropped two tears on his hair. "He is your passion, that fellow," said the painter. "We all have our hopeless passions

la plus inquiète, la plus rapide, la plus jalouse, la plus ardente, la plus violente, la plus simple, la plus é

I'd finally found my briar patch. My purpose in life,

Who is she? Did you know her young? What of her birth? Had she father and mother, or was she born of the conjunction of ice and sun? She burns and yet she freeze; she shows herself and then withdraws; she attracts me and repulses me; she brings me life, she gives me death; I love her and yet I hate her! I cannot live thus; let me be wholly in heaven or in hell!

The prodigality of millionaires is comparable only to their greed of gain. Let some whim or passion seize them and money is of no account. In fact these Croesuses find whims and passions harder to come by than gold.

No husband will ever be better avenged than by his wife's lover.

The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman.

It is absurd to pretend that one cannot love the same woman always, as to pretend that a good artist needs several violins to execute a piece of music.

An unfulfilled vocation drains the color from a man's entire existence.

Passion is born deaf and dumb.