Nicolas Chamfort Quotes

All passions exaggerate; and they are passions only because they do exaggerate.

Young girls like the excess of any quality. Without knowing, they want to suffer, to suffer they must exaggerate; they like to have loud chords struck on them.

She had never been a pretty crier. She sobbed the way she did everything else - with passion and excess.

But an infinity of passions can be contained in a minute, like a crowd in a tiny space.

Hot hate is twin brother to hot love.

There is an excess both in happiness and misery above our power of sensation.

If you love with violence and you hate with violence there is nothing that can be questioned.

Words like passion and ecstasy, we learn them but they stay flat on the page. Sometimes we try to turn them over, find out what's on the other side, and everyone has a story to tell os a woman or a brothel or an opium night or a war. We fear it. We fear passion and laugh at too much love and those who love too much.

I'm a girl of extremes. When I love something, I'm like a puppy dog (without all the licking). When I'm cranky, I'm a wasp (like a whole hive of 'em). And when I'm angry, I'm a Mother Bear with a predator after her cubs: Dangerous.

I definitely think the best songs are written when you feel something strongly.

It's either love or hate with me. People really can hate me.

Although I may not be sweet, I am full of passion.

There's definitely anger, the demand of more from the world, a demand for justice. There's no other way I can perform the vocals than the way you hear them. It's not just the words, it's what is being felt.

There is scarcely any passion without struggle.

Love is so much more deadly than I had thought, love is so much inherent as the very lack, and we are guaranteed by a need to be renewed continuously. Love is now, is forever. There is just the blow of grace - call it passion.

Passion is like the lightning, it is beautiful, and it links the earth to heaven, but alas it blinds!

If you love, love totally; if you hate, hate totally. Don't be fragmentary; suffer the consequences. Because of consequences you try to deceive.

Yes, it's crazy. Love is either crazy or it's nothing at all.

Passion alone could destroy passion. All the thinking in the world could not make so much as a dent in its surface.

Love is every bit as violent and dangerous as murder.

With subtle and finely-wrought temperaments it is always so. Their strong passions must either bruise or bend. They either slay the man, or themselves die. Shallow sorrows and shallow loves live on. The loves and the sorrows that are great are destroyed by their own plenitude.

When you first fall in love, it's supposed to be awful. Awful, uncertain, scary, wonderful, confusing, all at once. That's how you know it's real. You have to care deeply. Passionately. That hurts.

The essence of poetry is will and passion.

I love that you can be laughing one minute and crying the next, and then be shocked the next. I like things that provoke emotions to such extremes.

As great enmities spring from great friendships, and mortal distempers from vigorous health, so do the most surprising and the wildest frenzies from the high and lively agitations of our souls.