Quotes About Passion

Because I love you desperately. Because I can't sleep for thinking of you. Because I burn up with desire for you. Because I dare not look at you, because if I did, every man and woman at court would sell at that in my eyes.

Because I love you desperately. Because I can't sleep for thinking of you. Because I burn up with desire for you. Because I dare not look at you, because if I did, every man and woman at court would see all that that in my eyes.

Philippa Gregory

Philippa Gregory

the smell of him and the touch of his skin, I feel my desire for him rise again and we move together.

Her body in firelight and candlelight was as beautiful as a wild animal.

I'll remember you acting crazy!

Everybody has the same energy potential. The average person wastes his in a dozen little ways. I bring mine to bear on one thing only: my paintings, and everything else is sacrificed to it...myself included.

Inspiration exists but it must find you working.

La poésie c'est la vie même du grand EROS morte et par là survivante.

What paralyzes life is lack of faith and lack of courage. The difficulty lies not in solving problems but in expressing them correctly; and we can now see that it is biologically undeniable that unless we harness passion to the service of spirit there can be no progress. Sooner or later, then, and in spite of all our incredulity, the world will take this step— because the greater truth always prevails and the greater good emerges in the end.

Love is simply the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole.

There is in every one of us, even those who seem to be most moderate, a type of desire that is terrible, wild, and lawless.

Love is the pursuit of the whole.

And so, when a person meets the half that is his very own, whatever his orientation, whether it's to young men or not, then something wonderful happens: the two are struck from their senses by love, by a sense of belonging to one another, and by desire, and they don't want to be separated from one another, not even for a moment.

Love is merely the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole.

If anyone comes to the gates of poetry and expects to become an adequate poet by acquiring expert knowledge of the subject without the Muses' madness, he will fail, and his self-controlled verses will be eclipsed by the poetry of men who have been driven out of their minds.

Love is a madness produced by an unsatisfiable rational desire to understand the ultimate truth about the world.

It's not at all uncommon to find a person's desires compelling him to go against his reason, and to see him cursing himself and venting his passion on the source of the compulsion within him. It's as if there were two warring factions, with passion fighting on the side of reason. But I'm sure you won't claim that you had ever, in yourself or in anyone else, met a case of passion siding with his desires against the rational mind, when the rational mind prohibits resistance.

As it is, the lover of inquiry must follow his beloved wherever it may lead him.

To the degree that I cease to persue my deepest passions, I will gradually be controlled by my deepest fears.

The love of man to woman is a thing common and of course, and at first partakes more of instinct and passion than of choice; but true friendship between man and man is infinite and immortal. –Plato-

When I kiss Agathon my soul is on my lips, where it comes, poor thing, hoping to cross over.

Eros guides us to Logos.