Quotes About Passion

Alas, how love can trifle with itself!

By heaven, I do love, and it hath taught me to rime, and to be melancholy.

William Shakespeare

Hysterica passio! down, thou climbing sorrow!Thy element's below.

Answer me in one word.

William Shakespeare

This is the very ecstasy of love.

If you remember'st not the slightest follyThat ever love did make thee run into,Thou hast not lov'd.

O! what a war of looks was then between them.

Why, she would hang on him,As if increase of appetite had grownBy what it fed on.

The kiss you take is better than you give.

This music mads me: let it sound no more.

I must speak in passion, and I will do it in King Cambyses' vein.

But, soft what light through yonder window breaks It is the east, and Juliet is the sun.

Every man has business and desire, Such as it is.

Lady you bereft me of all words, Only my blood speaks to you in my veins, And there is such confusion in my powers.

O for a muse of fire, that would ascend the brightest heaven of invention.

The course of true love was never easy.

The soul's joy lies in doing.

To business that we love, we rise betime and go to't with delight.

These violent delights have violent ends And in their triumph die, like fire and powder, Which as they kiss consume. The sweetest honey Is loathsome in his own deliciousness And in the taste confounds the appetite. Therefore love moderately; long love doth so; Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow.

The course of true love never did run smooth; But, either it was different in blood, O cross! too high to be enthrall'd to low. Or else misgraffed in respect of years, O spite! too old to be engag'd to young. Or else it stood upon the choice of friends, O hell! to choose love by another's eye.

My only love sprung from my only hate! Too early seen unknown, and known too late! Prodigious birth of love it is to me, That I must love a loathed enemy.

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