Passion
Oliver Wendell Holmes
I think that, as life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time at peril of being judged not to have lived.
Caio Valério Catulo
I hate and love. You ask, perhaps, how that can be? / I know not, but I feel the agony.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.
Henri-Frédéric Amiel
Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility, like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron before it can give forth its spark.
Oscar Wilde
Each time one loves is the only time that one has ever loved. Difference of object does not alter singleness of passion. It merely intensifies it.
Jonathan Swift
The other day we had a long discourse with[Lady Orkney] about love; and she told us asaying . . . which I thought excellent, that inmen, desire begets love ; and in women, love begetsdesire .
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Passion, whether violent or not, must never be expressed to the point of exciting disgust, and . . . music, even in the most terrible situations, must never offend the ear.
Oscar Wilde
I see when men love women they give but a little of their lives, but women, when they love, give everything.
Friedrich Nietzsche
You know these things as thoughts, but your thoughts are not your experiences, they are an echo and after-effect of your experiences: as when your room trembles whe na carriage goes past. I however am sitting in the carriage, and often I am the carriage itself.Ina man who thinks like this, the dichotomy between thinking and feeling, intellect and passion, has really disappeared. He feels his thoughts. He can fall in love with an idea. An idea can make him ill.
Friedrich Nietzsche
It is true: we love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving.There is always a certain madness in love. But also there is always a certain method in madness.
Oscar Wilde
A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure. I don’t want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them.
Friedrich Nietzsche
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.