Marquis de Sade Quotes

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

I have a need to be all on fire, for I have mountains of ice about me to melt.

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.

What is passion? Passion is surely the becoming of a person.

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.

Anger is like fire. It burns all clean.

There is a passion in you that scares me.

This is why dreams can be such dangerous things: they smolder on like a fire does, and sometimes they consume us completely.

Passion. It lies in all of us. Sleeping... waiting... and though unwanted, unbidden, it will stir... open its jaws and howl. It speaks to us... guides us. Passion rules us all. And we obey. What other choice do we have? Passion is the source of our finest moments. The joy of love... the clarity of hatred... the ecstasy of grief. It hurts sometimes more than we can bear. If we could live without passion, maybe we'd know some kind of peace. But we would be hollow. Empty rooms, shuttered and dank. Without passion, we'd be truly dead.

Love and hatred are not blind, but are blinded by the fire they bear within themselves.

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

Could swell the soul to rage, or kindle soft desire.

It is difficult to say which is the greatest evil--to have too violent passions, or to be wholly devoid of them. Controlled with firmness, guided by discretion, and hallowed by the imagination, the passions are the vivifiers and quickeners of our being. Without passion there can be no energy of character. Indeed, the passions are like fire, useful in a thousand ways, and dangerous only in one--through their excess.

A great passion has no partner.

Passion is what makes life interesting, what ignites our soul, drives our curiosity, fuels our love and carries our friendship, stimulates our intellect, and pushes our limit.... A passion for life is contagious and uplifting. Passion cuts both ways.... Those that make you feel on top of the world are equally able to turnit upside down.

There is no fire like passion, there is no shark like hatred, there is no snare like folly, there is no torrent like greed.

In the church of my heart the choir is on fire

Oh, my passion! That is what finally carried me through. Let passion burn all the way, heating up every layer of the psyche.

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.

Is that what they call a vocation, what you do with joy as if you had fire in your heart, the devil in your body?

Fire that's closest kept burns most of all.

I stand entwined in fire on the inextinguishable bonfire of inconceivable love.

What is passion? It is surely the becoming of a person. Are we not, for most of our lives, marking time? Most of our being is at rest, unlived. In passion, the body and the spirit seek expression outside of self. Passion is all that is other from self. Sex is only interesting when it releases passion. The more extreme and the more expressed that passion is, the more unbearable does life seem without it. It reminds us that if passion dies or is denied, we are partly dead and that soon, come what may, we will be wholly so.

There is no passion, more spectral or fantastical than hate, not even its opposite, love, so peoples air, with phantoms, as this madness of the heart.

There's a storm inside of us. I've heard many team guys speak of this. A burning. A river. A drive.