Quotes about Passion

Suddenly he was inside the radius of her perfume and kissing her breathlessly.

Tireless passion, fierce jealousy, longing to possess and crush-these alone were left of all his love for Rosalind; these remained to him as payment for the loss of his youth-bitter calomel under the thin sugar of love's exaltation.

I'm afraid I'm in love with you and that's not the best thing that could happen.

He drew her very tenderly close and their lips met like starved hearts.

I've found my line- from now on this comes first. This is my immediate duty- without this I am nothing.

For this is wisdom—to love and live,     To take what fate or the gods may give,     To ask no question, to make no prayer,     To kiss the lips and caress the hair,     Speed passion's ebb as we greet its flow,     To have and to hold, and, in time—let go.

I broke a date for him. To-day I feel I'd break anything for him, including the ten commandments and my neck.

She had been kissed once and made love to six times.

He desired her and, so far as her virginal emotions went, she contemplated a surrender with equanimity. Yet she knew she would forget him half an hour after she left him - like an actor kissed in a picture.

Back at two o'clock in the Roi George corridor the beauty of Nicole had been the beauty of Rosemary as the beauty of Leonardo's girl was to that of the girl of an illustrator. Dick moved on through the rain, demoniac and frightened, the passions of many men inside him and nothing simple that he could see.

She did not know yet that splendor is something in the heart; at the moment when she realized that and melted into the passion of the universe he could take her without question or regret.

It's rotten that every bit of real love in the world is ninety-nine percent passion and one little soupcon of jealousy