Quotes About Passion

Love, till dawn sunder night from day with fire Dividing my delight and my desire...

That love is reverence, and worship, and glory, and the upward glance. Not a bandage for dirty sores. But they don't know it. Those who speak of love most promiscuously are the ones who've never felt it. They make some sort of feeble stew out of sympathy, compassion, comtempt, and general indiference, and they call it love. Once you've felt what it means to love as you and I know it - the total passion for the total height - you are unable of anything else.

Men have died from time to time, and worms have eaten them, but not for love.

The love boat has crashed against the everyday.

Holiness is neither that passionate love of the beginning, nor the tormenting anxiety of the long waits and of the moonlight walks, but is that superior form of friendship that is given this time a true eternal look, of comprehension, of acceptance of the self sacrifice for friendship, understanding and complementarity.

The madness of love is the greatest of heaven's blessings.

Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and instead of bleeding, he sings.

There is nothing better for the spirit or the body than a love affair. It elevates the thoughts and flattens the stomachs.

Thou art to me a delicious torment.

A job is what we do for money; work is what we do for love.

We only love truly once. It is the first time and succeeding passions are less uncontrolled.

I've never been in love. I've always been a lawyer.

The most eloquent silence; that of two mouths meeting in a kiss.

Change everything except your loves.

That is the true season of love; when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved as much before, and that no one will ever love in the same way again.

Love is a friendship caught on fire.

Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, and disregard of all the rules.

Love seeks no cause beyond itself and no fruit; it is its own fruit, its own enjoyment. I love because I love; I love in order that I may love.

Love is like an eternal flame, once it is lit, it will continue to burn for all time

What is the main thing in love? to know and to hide. To know about the one you love and to hide that you love. At times the hiding (shame) overpowers the knowing (passion). The passion for the hidden -- the passion for the revealed.

I shall always be a priest of love.

My father always told me, 'Find a job you love and you'll never have to work a day in your life.

In doing something, do it with love or never do it at all

When I write love songs, people think they're really soppy -- but I see love as a consolation for the boredom of life.