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Passion Quotes


"It is foolish to pretend that one is fully recovered from a disappointed passion. Such wounds always leave a scar."



"The human animal differs from the lesser primates in his passion for lists."


"Feminine passion is to masculine as an epic is to an epigram."


"I want to explore every aspect of you."


"The passion in the heart of God is to be established."


"So she thoroughly taught him that one cannot take pleasure without giving pleasure, and that every gesture, every caress, every touch, every glance, every last bit of the body has its secret, which brings happiness to the person who knows how to wake it. She taught him that after a celebration of love the lovers should not part without admiring each other, without being conquered or having conquered, so that neither is bleak or glutted or has the bad feeling of being used or misused."


"Book collecting is an obsession, an occupation, a disease, an addiction, a fascination, an absurdity, a fate. It is not a hobby. Those who do it must do it. Those who do not do it, think of it as a cousin of stamp collecting, a sister of the trophy cabinet, bastard of a sound bank account and a weak mind."


"I think we have all experienced passion that is not in any sense reasonable."


"Passion is destructive. It destroyed Antony and Cleopatra, Tristan and Isolde, Parnell and Kitty O'Shea. And if it doesn't destroy it dies. It may be then that one is faced with the desolation of knowing that one has wasted the years of one's life, that one's brought disgrace upon oneself, endured the frightful pang of jealousy, swallowed every bitter mortification, that one's expended all one's tenderness, poured out all the riches of one's soul on a poor drab, a fool, a peg on which on hung one's dreams, who wasn't worth a stick of chewing gum."


"Passion is finding something you're unwilling to live without."


"Heart language is logic set on fire."


"I admire bull riders for their passion and the uniqueness each one of them has."


"One passionate heart can brighten the world. From person to person the chain reaction burns through us - setting heart to heart ablaze, and lighting the way for us all!"


"He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason."


"My own brain is to me the most unaccountable of machinery - always buzzing, humming, soaring roaring diving, and then buried in mud. And why? What's this passion for?"


"Do it with great love or forget it."


"I always need a couple of highlights to really spark the passion for a project."


"Crimes of Passion, which is one of the best films I've done, will live strongly in my resume, even though it didn't do well."



"Sometimes you have to find the passion. It comes from the inside... Everyone has to find it for themselves."


"What hunger is in relation to food zest is in relation to life."


"My dear, I have nothing to say.my heart burns like the evening sky."


"Fierce lovers.and battle warriorsboth comefrom the same place. there is bound to be,some bloodshed."


"Three passions simple but overwhelmingly strong have governed my life: the longing for love the search for knowledge and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind."


"Revolutions are the produce of passion, not of sober and tranquil reason."


"A continual atmosphere of hectic passion is very trying if you haven't got any of your own."


"That night two lovers whispering under the lead canopy of the church were killed by their own passion. Their effusion of words, unable to escape through the Saturnian discipline of lead, so filled the spaces of the loft that the air was all driven away. The lovers suffocated, but when the sacristan opened the tiny door the words tumbled him over in their desire to be free, and were seen flying across the city in the shape of doves."
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