There was a disturbance in my
heart, a voice that spoke there
and said, I want, I want, I
want! It happened every
afternoon, and when I tried to
suppress it it got even
stronger.
~Saul Bellow
Anyone can be passionate, but
it takes real lovers to be
silly.
~Rose Franken
Passion is the quickest to
develop, and the quickest to
fade. Intimacy develops more
slowly, and commitment more
gradually still.
~Robert Sternberg
It's the soul's duty to be
loyal to its own desires. It
must abandon itself to its
master passion.
~Rebecca West
The most beautiful make-up of
a woman is passion. But
cosmetics are easier to buy.
~Yves Saint Laurent
Love is often gentle, desire
always a rage.
~Mignon McLaughlin
If passion drives you, let
reason hold the reins.
~Benjamin Franklin
It is with our passions as it
is with fire and water; they are
good servants, but bad masters.
~Roger L'Estrange
The same passions in man and
woman nonetheless differ in
tempo; hence man and woman do
not cease misunderstanding one
another.
~Friedrich Nietzsche
Let men tremble to win the
hand of woman, unless they win
along with it the utmost passion
of her heart! Else it may be
their miserable fortune, when
some mightier touch than their
own may have awakened all her
sensibilities, to be reproached
even for the calm content, the
marble image of happiness, which
they will have imposed upon her
as the warm reality.
~Nathaniel Hawthorne
