Quotes About Passion

The future belongs to those who are passionate and work hard.

The Politics of Fear Fear is the most powerful enemy of reason. Both fear and reason are essential to human survival, but the relationship between them is unbalanced. Reason may sometimes dissipate fear, but fear frequently shuts down reason. As Edmund Burke wrote in England twenty years before the American Revolution, "No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.

I hold my madness like a sword and plunge it in your body all night long;

so much like riding dangerous women with whiskey coloured eyes - such women as once fell dead with their lovers with fire in their heads and slippery froth on thighs

And you you bitch no irritating questions re love and permanence only an unrolling lifetime here between your rocking thighs and the semblance of motion

Must being in love always mean being in pain?

The longing for destiny is nowhere stronger than in our romantic life.

Love is an incurable disease. In love, there is permanent suffering. Those who love and those who are happy are not the same.

Good sex isn't just fun, it keeps us sane and happy. Having sex with someone makes us feel wanted, alive and potent

Whereas we can say something sensible and polite to any stranger, it is only in the presence of the lover we wholeheartedly believe in that can we date to be extravagantly and boundlessly unreasonable.

Nothing is erotic that isn't also, with the wrong person, revolting, which is precisely what makes erotic moments so intense: at the precise juncture where disgust could be at its height, we find only welcome and permission.

Sex gets us out of the house and out of ourselves.

For Proust, an injection of jealousy is the only thing capable of rescuing a relationship ruined by habit.

Yet we can perhaps only ever fall in love without knowing quite who we have fallen in love with. The initial convulsion is necessarily founded on ignorance. Love or simple obsession?

It seems easier to respond to our enthusiasms by trading in facts than by investigating the more naive question of how and why we have been moved

we would not reliably assent to reproduce unless we first had lost our minds.

One of love's greatest drawbacks is that, for a while at least, it is in danger of making us seriously happy.

The clue to dieting: ensuring (not always easy) one has more exciting things to do than eat.

Uno de los principales inconvenientes del amor, al menos durante un tiempo, es que corre el riesgo de hacernos felices.

Eroticism is therefore seemingly most clearly manifest at the intersection between the formal and the intimate.

Infatuations aren't delusions.

Desire had turned me into a relentless hunter for clues, a romantic paranoiac, reading meaning into everything.

É impossível continuar a fazer amor se a carpete for sempre a mesma.

It's more than mere coyness to refer to what they have done as "making love." They haven't just had sex; they have translated their feelings—appreciation, tenderness, gratitude, and surrender—into a physical act.