Quotes About Passion

True love is admiration

Then the imitative poet who aims at being popular is not by nature made, nor is his art intended, to please or to affect the rational principle in the soul; but he will prefer the passionate and fitful temper, which is easily imitated? Clearly. And

My meaning is, that any state of action or passion implies previous action or passion. It does not become because it is becoming, but it is in a state of becoming because it becomes; neither does it suffer because it is in a state of suffering, but it is in a state of suffering because it suffers.

For instance, I remember someone asking Sophocles, the poet, whether he was still capable of enjoying a woman. 'Don't talk in that way,' he answered; 'I am only too glad to be free of all that; it is like escaping from bondage to a raging madman.

Yes, if he is to have true music in him.

A los amantes les llega el arrepentimiento del bien que hayan podido hacer, tan pronto como se les aplaca su deseo.

For once touched by love, everyone becomes a poet

Sólo de libre voluntad se somete uno al Amor

Necesariamente aquel cuyo imperio es el deseo, y el placer su esclavitud, hará que el amado le proporcione el mayor gozo. A un enfermo le gusta todo lo que no le contraría; pero le es desagradable lo que es igual o superior a él. El que ama, pues, no soportará de buen grado que su amado le sea mejor o igual, sino que se esforzará siempre en que le sea inferior o más débil.

La amistad del amante no brota del buen sentido, sino como las ganas de comer, del ansia de saciarse.

that any state of action or passion implies previous action or passion. It does not become because it is becoming, but it is in a state of becoming because it becomes; neither does it suffer because it is in a state of suffering, but it is in a state of suffering because it suffers.

Llamo hombre vicioso al amante popular que ama el cuerpo más bien que el alma; porque su amor no puede tener duración, puesto que ama una cosa que no dura.

No reproach for a person willing to give honorable service in the passion to become wise.

As I kissed Agathon my soul swelled to my lips, where it hangs, pitiful, hoping to leap across.

Love is a serious mental illness.

?ežnja za filozofijom je iskra u duši koja se, kada se jednom zapali, održava i više ne gasi.

El amor es una grave enfermedad mental.

Interests evolve into hobbies or volunteer work, which grow into passions. It takes time, more time than anyone imagines.

They were kissing again, carefully at first, learning the shape and texture of each other's lips, testing the sharpness of the teeth behind them. It's too fast, said a panicky voice in his mind. And too dangerous. He'll drink your juices, taste your brain, crack your soul open like an egg! Hell, I think I want him to do all that.

Stay with me.' His eyes shone. 'Play with me.

knew how hungrily they would lap up the twin rivers of blood and milk.

She felt the electric thrill of contact, the very tip of his tongue touching hers, and an exquisite heat exploded from the center of her womb. For an instant she thought her innards would simply melt out of her pussy and run down her thighs, so intense was the rush.

My whole life has been heat. I like heat, in a certain way.

Strategy 1—Against Your Passion He seeks to dim your whole desire for prayer, dull your interest in spiritual things, and downplay the potency of your most strategic weapons (Eph. 6:10–20). Strategy 2—Against Your Focus He disguises himself and manipulates your perspective so you end up focusing on the wrong culprit, directing your weapons at the wrong enemy (2 Cor. 11:14). Strategy 3—Against Your Identity