Passion & Desire

Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for the truth.
--Benjamin Disraeli

Passion is the element in which we live; without it, we hardly vegetate.
--Lord Byron

Those who restrain desire, do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.
--William Blake

The true feeling of sex is that of a deep intimacy, but above all of a deep complicity.
--James Dickey

Romantic love is a passionate spiritual-emotional-sexual attachment between a man and a woman that reflects a high regard for the value of each other's person.
--Nathaniel Branden

Strong emotions are present in all people. Without feeling, we would not be human. It's unnatural for man to hide what he's feeling, though if taught to do so, he can learn. Love teaches a man to show what he is feeling. Love never presupposes that it can be discerned or felt without expression.
--Leo Buscaglia (Love)

All thoughts, all passions, all delights,
Whatever stirs this mortal frame,
All are but ministers of Love,
And feed his sacred flame.
--Samuel Coleridge

Passion can never purchase what true love desires: true intimacy, self-giving, and commitment
--Author Unknown

Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.
--Oscar Wilde

It is the passion that is in a kiss that gives to it its sweetness; it is the affection in a kiss that sanctifies it.
--Christian Nevell Bovee

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...
--John Boorman

Love without passion is dreary; passion without love is horrific.
--Lord Byron

I hated him with a passion so deep, sometimes it felt like love.
--Terri Guillemets

The pleasure of love is in loving; we are happier in the passion we feel than in the passion we inspire.
--François de la Rochefoucauld

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... and 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.
--Joss Whedon

Intellectual passion drives out sensuality
--Leonardo da Vinci

Let men tremble to win the hand of woman, unless they win along with it the utmost passion of her heart! Else it may be their miserable fortune, when some mightier touch than their own may have awakened all her sensibilities, to be reproached even for the calm content, the marble image of happiness, which they will have imposed upon her as the warm reality.
--Nathaniel Hawthorne

Passion can never purchase what true love desires: true intimacy, self-giving, and commitment.
--Author Unknown