Quotes About Passion

The excesses of love soon pass, but its insufficiencies torment us forever.

Desire creates havoc when it is the only thing between two people, or when it is what's missing.

We all become great explorers during our first few days in a new city, or a new love affair.

What we love about love is the fever, which marriage puts to bed and cures.

Without enthusiasm, virtue functions not at all, and vice only poorly.

No one can understand love who has not experienced infatuation. And no one can understand infatuation, no matter how many times he has experienced it.

Desire is in men a hunger, in women only an appetite.

In youth we are plagued by desire; in later years, by the desire to feel desire.

What you can't get out of... Get into wholeheartedly.

The best work is done with the heart breaking, or overflowing.

The head never rules the heart, but just becomes its partner in crime.

Nymphomaniac: a woman as obsessed with sex as an average man.

901Le dolía su país como si le hubiera podrido la sangre. Le dolía afuera y en la médula, en la raíz del pelo, bajo las uñas, entre los dientes.

My heart is wax moulded as she pleases, but enduring as marble to retain.

Love and War are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.

Those who believe that they believe in God, but without passion in their hearts, without anguish in mind, without uncertainty, without doubt, without an element of despair even in their consolation, believe in the God idea, not God himself.

Eso de amor -decíase Ramiro ahora- sabe a libro; sólo en el teatro y en las novelas se oye el yo te amo; en la vida de la carne y sangre y hueso el entrañable ¡te quiero! y el más entrañable aún callárselo.

Que sueño...? Dejadme soñar; si ese sueño es mi vida, no me despertéis de él. Creo

El amor es un éxtasis;nos saca de nosotros mismos

The truth is that my work — I was going to say my mission — is to shatter the faith of men here, there, and everywhere, faith in affirmation, faith in negation, and faith in abstention in faith, and this for the sake of faith in faith itself; it is to war against all those who submit, whether it be to Catholicism, or to rationalism, or to agnosticism; it is to make all men live the life of inquietude and passionate desire.

Naturalmente; hay lágrimas que refrescan y desahogan y lágrimas que encienden y sofocan más.

to enjoy the flesh of one's own soul).

Ya tengo un objetivo, una finalidad en esta vida —se decía—, y es conquistar a esta muchacha o que ella me conquiste. Y es lo mismo. En amor lo mismo da vencer que ser vencido.

Comprar yo su cuerpo... su cuerpo...! ¡Si me sobra el mío, Orfeo, me sobra el mío! Lo que yo necesito es alma, alma, alma