Quotes About Passion

Yet some say lovers are mad.

She's like cream, she's that soft. Once her thighs are around you, you'll forget your own name.

I was not careful. I was reckless, headlong. He was another knife, I could feel it. A different sort, but a knife still. I did not care. I thought: give me the blade. Some things are worth spilling blood for.

He was watching me, his eyes as deep as earth. "Will you come with me?" he asked. The never-ending ache of love and sorrow. Perhaps in some other life I could have refused, could have torn my hair and screamed, and made him face his choice alone. But not in this one. He would sail to Troy and I would follow, even into death. "Yes," I whispered. "Yes.

It is one of the psychological mistakes that the world makes, to assume that a man whose inclination drives him on to attempt seduction after seduction is a man of more ardent erotic passion than the more constant lover. The very reverse is the case.

Thus, in the huge compensatory ebb and flow of great creative Nature, one tension of human feeling has the power of ejecting, or completely cancelling, another strain of feeling. For the emotional tension of a frustrated passion there is no better cure than to spend an hour or two in the presence of terrible bodily anguish.

First, she wanted to taste the sweat that shone on his throat and fragile clavicle; then he chose to undo the tails of her shirt, that she had tied up beneath her breasts; then, but then impatient they forgot about taking turns and quarreled silently, eagerly over each other, like pirates dividing treasure long sought, long imagined, long withheld.

Education is something which should be apart from the necessities of earning a living, not a tool therefor.

People are very good at things they are very interested in.

I am two fools, I know, For loving, and for saying so.

Licence my roving hands, and let them go Before, behind, between, above, below.

Then love is sin, and let me sinful be.

Love is a passion which kindles honor into noble acts.

What passion cannot music raise or quell

There is a pleasure sure in being mad which none but madmen know -John Dryden

Emasculation happens in marriage as well. Women are often attracted to the wilder side of a man, but once having caught him they settle down to the task of domesticating him. Ironically, if he gives in he'll resent her for it, and she in turn will wonder where the passion has gone.

All men die; few men ever really live.

If you had permission to do what you really want to do, what would you do?

You learn a great deal about the true nature of a person in the way they love, why they love, and, in what they love.

Most men think they are simply here on earth to kill time—and it's killing them.

For above all else, the Christian life is a love affair of the heart.

The truth of the gospel is intended to free us to love God and others with our whole heart. When we ignore this heart aspect of our faith and try to live out our religion solely as correct doctrine or ethics, our passion is crippled, or perverted, and the divorce of our soul from the heart purposes of God toward us is deepened. The

The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives. —ALBERT SCHWEITZER

Corporate policies and procedures are designed with one aim: to harness a man to the plow and make him produce. But the soul refuses to be harnessed; it knows nothing of Day Timers and deadlines and P&L statements. The soul longs for passion, for freedom, for life.