Arthur Golden Quotes

The heart's in it then, spinning dreams, and torment is on the way. The heart makes dreams seem like ideas.

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

You fall in love, and it completely consumes you.

A thought often makes us hotter than a fire.

Jump out the window if you are the object of passion. Flee it if you feel it. Passion goes, boredom remains.

I am not good. I am not virtuous. I am not sympathetic. I am not generous. I am merely and above all a creature of intense passionate feeling. I feel—everything. It is my genius. It burns me like fire.

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

More than any other beauty (though it is true of all beauty except in art) passion seems to me to have the seeds of its own destruction in it.

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.

Dreams raise the emotional level of what I'm doing at the moment.

Dreams can twist your emotions like no reality can.

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

A real flame of love is a subtle thing. It burns as a will-o'-the-wisp, dancing onward to fairy lands of delight. It roars as a furnace. Too often jealousy is the quality upon which it feeds.

I love women whose hidden desires make horses put an end to their lives at the threshold

What a strange world it is where you can have as much sex as you like but love is taboo. I'm talking about the real thing, the grand passion, which may not allow affection or convenience or happiness. The truth is that love smashes into your life like an ice floe, and even if your heart is built like the Titanic you go down. That's the size of it, the immensity of it. It's not proper, it's not clean, it's not containable.

Give not thyself up, then, to fire, lest it invert thee, deaden thee, as for the time it did me. There is a wisdom that is woe; but there is a woe that is madness.

When passion is mutual, there is always the danger of the fire burning to ashes.

Then I lie down on the horse blanket and drift into a dream about Marlena that will probably cost me my soul.

Love is of all passions the strongest, for it attacks simultaneously the head, the heart and the senses.

Passion is all but soft, it's not tender, it's violence to which you get hooked by pleasure.

Our visions begin with our desires.

The ruling passion, be it what it will. The ruling passion conquers reason still.

What's the difference between male and female passion? If love is a drug, what are its side effects? Rhye makes chill-out music, but it never quite lets your mind switch off.