Passion Intensity Quotes

The love of the famous, like all strong passions, is quite abstract. Its intensity can be measured mathematically, and it is independent of persons.

L'absence diminue les mediocres passions, et augmente les grandes,comme le vent eteint les bougies, et allume le feu. Absence diminishes commonplace passions, and increases great ones, as wind extinguishes candles and kindles fire.

Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.

Love and hate. Same passion. Same impulse

Absence cools moderate passions, and inflames violent ones; just as the wind blows out candles, but kindles fires.

Absence abates a moderate passion and intensifies a great one - as the wind blows out a candle but fans fire into flame.

What a mistake to suppose that the passions are strongest in youth! The passions are not stronger, but the control over them is weaker! They are more easily excited, they are more violent and apparent; but they have less energy, less durability, less intense and concentrated power than in maturer life.

The emotions of the spectator will still be very apt to fall short of the violence of what is felt by the sufferer. Mankind, though naturally sympathetic, never conceive, for what has befallen another, that degree of passion which naturally animates the person principally concerned.

In love there is but little rest.

I love comics, but I'd rather cut off my thumbs than do nothing but.

Passions are likened best to floods and streams: The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb.

All the passions are nothing else than different degrees of heat and cold of the blood.

A mutually fulfilled sexual union between two people is the rarest sensation which life can provide. But it is not quite real. It stops when the telephone rings. Such a passion can be kept at its early strength only by adding to it either more and more unhappiness (jealousy, separation, doubt, renunciation), or more and more artificiality (drink, technique, stage-illusions). Whoever has missed this has never lived, who lives for it alone is but partly alive.

The ferocity of passion that is engendered by people when they don't like what you've done is really tremendous. It's intense.

I personally don't think you can love two things like dancing and singing the same exact amount. There is always one that you like more, and that is most likely the one that you're better at, because you try harder in it.