Passion quotes
Passion quotes by George Gordon Byron
Also about
Lust, Age, Humanity
There is no such thing as a life of passion any more than a continuous earthquake, or an eternal fever. Besides, who would ever shave themselves in such a state?
I should like to know who has been carried off, except poor dear me - I have been more ravished myself than anybody since the Trojan war.
I always looked to about thirty as the barrier of any real or fierce delight in the passions, and determined to work them out in the younger ore and better veins of the mine - and I flatter myself (perhaps) that I have pretty well done so - and now the dross is coming.
Out of chaos God made a world, and out of high passions comes a people.
Passion quotes by Coco Chanel
Also about
Change, Boredom, Women, Betrayal
I've never been in love, Nazimova, and I never will be. I take momentary pleasures in bodies presented to me. But when that short-lived pleasure is over, I move on. I prefer to sleep alone. Love! Men who fall in love never succeed in this world. They are mere lovesick fools – nothing more.
Howard Hughes
(also about
Love, Pleasure, Success, Career)
Passion makes a person stop eating, sleeping, working, feeling at peace. A lot of people are frightened because, when it appears, it demolishes all the old things it finds in its path.
No one wants their life thrown into chaos. That is why a lot of people keep that threat under control, and are somehow capable of sustaining a house or a structure that is already rotten. They are the engineers of the superseded.
Other people think exactly the opposite: they surrender themselves without a second thought, hoping to find in passion the solutions to all their problems. They make the other person responsible for their happiness and blame them for their possible unhappiness. They are either euphoric because something marvelous has happened or depressed because something unexpected has just ruined everything.
Keeping passion at bay or surrendering blindly to it - which of these two attitudes is the least destructive?
I don't know. Paulo Coelho
No one wants their life thrown into chaos. That is why a lot of people keep that threat under control, and are somehow capable of sustaining a house or a structure that is already rotten. They are the engineers of the superseded.
Other people think exactly the opposite: they surrender themselves without a second thought, hoping to find in passion the solutions to all their problems. They make the other person responsible for their happiness and blame them for their possible unhappiness. They are either euphoric because something marvelous has happened or depressed because something unexpected has just ruined everything.
Keeping passion at bay or surrendering blindly to it - which of these two attitudes is the least destructive?
I don't know. Paulo Coelho
(also about
Destruction, People, Feelings)
When she does not find love, she may find poetry.
Because she does not act, she observes, she feels, she records; a color, a smile awakens profound echoes within her; her destiny is outside her, scattered in cities already built, on the faces of men already marked by life, she makes contact, she relishes with passion and yet in a manner more detached, more free, than that of a young man. Simone de Beauvoir
Because she does not act, she observes, she feels, she records; a color, a smile awakens profound echoes within her; her destiny is outside her, scattered in cities already built, on the faces of men already marked by life, she makes contact, she relishes with passion and yet in a manner more detached, more free, than that of a young man. Simone de Beauvoir
(also about
Poetry, Feelings, Creativity, Consolation)
In vain do we seek tranquility in the desert; temptations are always with us; our passions, represented by the demons, never let us alone: those monsters created by the heart, those illusions produced by the mind, those vain specters that are our errors and our lies always appear before us to seduce us; they attack us even in our fasting or our mortifications, in other words, in our very strength.
Charles de Montesquieu
(also about
Mankind, Temptations)
Nevertheless the passions, whether violent or not, should never be so expressed as to reach the point of disgust; and music, even in situations of the greatest horror, should never be painful to the ear but should flatter and charm it, and thereby always remain music.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
(also about
Music)
Passion quotes by Gustave Flaubert
Also about
Addiction, Desire, Temptations, Love, Infinity, Moments
One mustn't look at the abyss, because there is at the bottom an inexpressible charm which attracts us.
Love, she thought, must come suddenly, with great outbursts and lightnings, - a hurricane of the skies, which falls upon life, revolutionises it, roots up the will like a leaf, and sweeps the whole heart into the abyss.
An infinity of passion can be contained in one minute, like a crowd in a small space.
Passion quotes by Honoré de Balzac
Also about
Love, Consequences, Humanity, Women, Behaviour
Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.
For passion, be it observed, brings insight with it; it can give a sort of intelligence to simpletons, fools, and idiots, especially during youth.
Passion is universal humanity. Without it religion, history, romance and art would be useless.
The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman.
Passion is born deaf and dumb.