Quotes about Passion

Love is as strong as death.

What does Spinoza say in his Ethics? —"Affectus, qui passio est, desinit esse passio simulatque eius claram et distinctam formamus ideam." Emotion, which is suffering, ceases to be suffering as soon as we form a clear and precise picture of it. The

people have enough to live by but nothing to live for; they have the means but no meaning.

People have enough to live by but nothing to live for.

who shall measure the heat and violence of a poet's heart when caught and tangled in a woman's body?

But then anyone who's worth anything reads just what he likes, as the mood takes him, and with extravagant enthusiasm.

To put it in a nutshell, he was afflicted with a love of literature. It was the fatal nature of this disease to substitute a phantom for reality.

You wish to be a poet; you wish to be a lover. But the splendid clarity of your intelligence, and the remorseless honestly of your intellect bring you to a halt.

Freedom and fullness of expression are of the essence of the art.

I will write, she had said, what I enjoy writing.

If this is love, there is something highly ridiculous about it.

I know what loves trembling into fire; how jealousy shoots its green flashes hither and thither; how intricately love crosses love; love makes knots; love brutally tears them apart. I have been knotted, I have been torn apart.