Passion Quotes - Page 8

That's the trouble with grand passions, of course. You can never entirely cleanse yourself of them. It's best to avoid them altogether.

Passion - eventually it cools.

A blaze of love and extinction, was better than a lantern glimmer of the same which should last long years.

I resist my temptations in order to feel i am free.

I do not say that I could never be persuaded to sacrifice my reputation to passion- only that it would take a great deal.

And there’s also ‘To him that hath shall be given.’ After all, you must have a capacity to receive, or even omnipotence can’t give. Perhaps your own passion temporarily destroys the capacity.

Yes, in all my research, the greatest leaders looked inward and were able to tell a good story with authenticity and passion.

Democracy is more vindictive than cabinets, the wars of peoples will be more terrible than those of kings.

A love-story is a book to be read by everyone whose heart beats for someone!

Within her presence, I had once been used
to feeling - trembling - wonder, dissolution;
but that was long ago. Still, though my soul,
now she was veiled, could not see her directly,
by way of hidden force that she could move,
I felt the mighty power of old love.

It is one thing doing what you love for a living. It is another thing doing what you love with love

Even the moon cannot escape your intoxicating charms...

I invented you the way I like but I have fallen for you the way you are.

...but unlike me, she has a hard time saying such things. She loved me with a passion, but I felt it in her expressions, in her touch, in the tender brush of her lips. And, when I needed it most, she loved me with the written word as well.

He tastes like mint and posession and fire.

My storm is my own...Enter if you dare. However, bear in mind that the tempest of desire is fraught with unpredictability from the highest peaks to the depths of the abyss. Do not expect a smooth ride, but expect a true and passionate one...

For he who lives as passion directs will not hear argument that dissuades him, nor understand it if he does; and how can we persuade one in such a state to change his ways?

And I’m trying to stay strong. I really, really am. But he smells so damn good, and his lips are just right there. All soft and inviting… and all I can think about is having them on my body.

The more the discomfort or the pain or loss, the better you are able to focus and change course of your life!

I threw myself into that fire, threw myself into it, into him, and let myself burn.