Love and Passion Quotes

But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun.

More precious than life is love, for there can be no life without love.

I still read Donne, particularly his love poems.

To think about love and passion and political correctness all together, it doesn't work. Art has to go way past the political to be effective.

Love! Beyond measure — beyond death — it nearly kills. But one wouldn't have been without it.

For I must tell you that we artists cannot tread the path of Beauty without Eros keeping company with us and appointing himself as our guide.

You need not attempt to shake off or to banter off Romance. It is an evil you will never get rid of to the end of your days. It is a part of yourself ... of your soul. Age will only mellow it a little, and give it a holier tone.

Love is the very essence of life.

Romantic ideas about the heart fly in the face of known fact, but that doesn't matter and never has. People many thousands of years ago knew that the heart is basically a blood pump, but that didn't keep them from also believing it was the seat of romantic love (and all other strong emotion).

It's a very romantic sentiment, but to think that you would die if you didn't write, well, I would definitely choose to not write and live.

Christianity has ever been the enemy of human love; it has forever cursed and expelled and crucified the one passion which sweetens and smiles on human life, which makes the desert blossom as the rose, and which glorifies the common things and common ways of earth. It made of this, the angel of life, a shape of sin and darkness ... Even in the unions which it reluctantly permitted, it degraded and dwarfed the passion which it could not entirely exclude, and permitted it coarsely to exist for the mere necessity of procreation.