Passion Quotes - Page 15

Half naked, he drank her in with his eyes, imprinting this moment into his mind. This, he would take to his death – the woman that stirred him to life.

To love in the sense of passion-love is the contrary of to live. It is an impoverishment of one's being, an askesis without sequel, an inability to enjoy the present without imagining it as absent, a never-ending flight from possession.

What stirs lyrical poets to their finest flights is neither the delight of the senses nor the fruitful contentment of the settled couple; not the satisfaction of love, but its passion. And passion means suffering.

The only way is to teach with love, which requires looking beyond what seems, and remembering we create with our judgements.

Love exists in powder. Love exists in pills. We are all addicts.

We made love like green is blue. That’s because we were only half into it, though for the record I was the blue and she was the disinterested yellow.


I take my metal canister of tea off the shelf. It is my own mixture of dried lavender blossoms and lemon balm, harvested from my garden and hung in the storeroom to dry. Weed helped me hang these stalks, I think. His hands touched these tender leaves, just as they touch me.

They stamped their own pattern of lovers onto the fabric of Paris.

Love corrupts and absolute love corrupts absolutely. The unreasonable systems of men, that is.

It’s very difficult to follow our dreams, but it’s even more difficult to forget them.

Love, they say, enslaves and passion is a demon and many have been lost for love. I know this is true, but I know too that without love we grope the tunnels of our lives and never see the sun.

Life equaled love plus passion squared. Loving and being passionate about what one did was what made life so precious.

Unless love is passion, it's not love, but something else; and passion thrives not on satisfaction, but on impediment.

Mediocrity is Death.

If you allow an experienced man of the world to introduce you to passion when you want him more than he wants you, he will own your soul, but you will not own his.

Love brings the high and concealed characteristics of the lover into the light-what is rare and exceptional in him: to that extent it easily deceives regarding his normality.

Passion is the desire to do something with fervor. It is the certainty that one is going to accomplish their dreams.

Free will...it's all the rage these days

A confident woman knows her worth and so doesn’t fret when her man is highly placed or is often found amidst other women in the course of his business or assignment.

A woman that is patient has the ability to endure provocation, pain, annoyance etc, with much calm and strength.