Christian Nestell Bovee Quotes

Affection is a coal that must be cooled; else, suffered, it will set the heart on fire.

I do have a lot of fire in me and could use some lessons on how to handle things more calmly.

Fear is implanted in us as a preservative from evil but its duty, like that of other passions, is not to overbear reason, but to assist it. It should not be suffered to tyrannize in the imagination, to raise phantoms of horror, or to beset life with supernumerary distresses.

Some of the most intense affairs are between actors and characters. There's a fire in the human heart and we jump into it with the same obsession as we have with our lovers.

Passions, as fire and water, are good servants, but bad masters, and subminister to the best and worst purposes.

My passions, concentrated on a single point, resemble the rays of a sun assembled by a magnifying glass: they immediately set fire to whatever object they find in their way.

Venerate four characters: the sanguine who has checked volatility and the rage for pleasure; the choleric who has subdued passion and pride; the phlegmatic emerged from indolence; and the melancholy who has dismissed avarice, suspicion and asperity.

The raging fire which urged us on was scorching us; it would have burned us had we failed to restrain it.

Love lights more fire than hate extinguishes.

You'll have to learn to control your emotions. They're new, like achild's now, bursting with passion. Never let them fade, or part of you will die. But they cal also destroy you. Hold them dear, but don't let them take hold of you.

I am burning. If anyone lacks tinder, let him set his rubbish ablaze with my fire.

All passions that suffer themselves to be relished and digested are but moderate.

There are moments when our passions speak and decide for us ... like a fire kindled within our being to which everything else in us is mere fuel.

A woman isn't all that different from a bonfire. A fire's a beautiful thing, right? Something you can't take your eyes off, when it's burning. If you can keep it contained, it'll throw light and heat for you. It's only when it gets out of control that you have to go on the offensive.

For only fools, fanatics, and mental cases can stand living at the highest pitch of soul; a sane person must be content with declaring that life would not be worth living without a spark of that mysterious fire.

Conflicts create the fire of affects and emotions; and like every fire it has two aspects: that of burning and that of giving light.

The great sins and fires break out of me like the terrible leaves from the bough in the violent spring. I am a walking fire, I am all leaves.

You can't make poetry out of thought; poetry is passion. Linear thought must be seduced by wild mind, by the fires of ecstasy.

Thus far, everything I've made has come out of my really feeling it, out of the fire of my life.

There's such a fierce intense fire burning inside of me, so much that it just wants to explode.

I think I connect to people who could be written off as wild or dark, or who are just full of fire and looking for a place to put that fire. It's an important lesson to learn, and it's something I did learn: you live on behalf of others and you're happier and you have purpose. And you have a great excuse to have all that fire.

It is a certain rule that wit and passion are entirely incompatible. When the affections are moved, there is no place for the imagination.

I must feel the fire of my soul so my intellectual blues can set others on fire.

The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts - the less you know the hotter you get.