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Quotes About Passion

Love is an alliance of friendship and animalism; if the former predominates it is passion exalted and refined; if the latter, gross and sensual.
~ Charles Caleb Colton
Love in young men for the most part is not love but sexual desire, and its accomplishment is the end
~ Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
Give me love and work - these two only
~ William Morris
Oh, my luve's like a red, red rose, That's newly sprung in June; Oh, my luve's like the melodie That's sweetly played in tune
~ Robert Burns
Touch your lips just so I know in your eyes, love, it glows so I'm bare boned and crazy for you when you come crash into me, baby and I come into you...
~ Dave Matthews Band
Love is so holy, so confusing. It makes a man anxious, tormented. Love, how can I define it?
~ Moliere
But to see her was to love her, Love but her, and love forever
~ Robert Burns
Saving love doesn't bring any interest.
~ Mae West
Love is a spirit all compact of fire
~ William Shakespeare
If he loved with all the powers of his puny being, he couldn't love as much in eighty years as I could in a day. and Catherine has a heart as deep as I have: the sea could be as readily contained in that horse-trough as her whole affection be monopolised by him.
~ Emily Bronte
All really great lovers are articulate, and verbal seduction is the surest road to actual seduction.
~ Marya Mannes
Better to love amiss than nothing to have loved
~ George Crabbe
When I think of your kisses my mind see-saws.
~ Joni Mitchell
And love's the noblest frailty of the mind.
~ John Dryden
Love the Lord your God with all your passion and prayer and intelligence. Love others as well as you love yourself.
~ Jesus Christ
You are done for - a living dead man - not when you stop loving but stop hating. Hatred preserves: in it, in its chemistry, resides the mystery of life.
~ Unknown
In every living thing there is the desire for love.
~ DH Lawrence
First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.
~ George Bernard Shaw
Love is a hole in the heart.
~ Ben Hecht
The pleasure of the act of love is gross and brief and brings loathing after it
~ Petronius
We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
If there's delight in love, 'tis when I see That heart, which others bleed for, bleed for me
~ William Congreve
There is only one situation I can think of in which men and women make an effort to read better than they usually do. [It is] when they are in love and reading a love letter.
~ Mortimer Adler
Murder is born of love, and love attains the greatest intensity in murder
~ Octave Mirbeau