No human being, even the most passionately loved and passionately loving, is ever in our possession.
- Albert Camus
The most wonderful of all things in life, I believe, is the discovery of another human being with whom one's relationship has a glowing depth, beauty, and joy as the years increase. This inner progressiveness of love between two human beings is a most marvellous thing, it cannot be found by looking for it or by passionately wishing for it. It is sort of a Divine accident.
- Horace Walpole
The work of art must seize upon you,wrap you up in itself and carry you away.It is the means by which the artist conveys his passion.It is the current which he puts forth which sweeps you along in his passion.
- Auguste Renoir
For this is Wisdom; to love, to live To take what fate, or the Gods may give.To ask no question, to make no prayer,To kiss the lips and caress the hair,Speed passion's ebb as you greet its flow To have, - to hold - and - in time, - let go!
- Laurence Hope
To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering one most not love. But then one suffers from not loving. Therefore, to love is to suffer; not to love is to suffer; to suffer is to suffer. To be happy is to love. To be happy, then, is to suffer, but suffering makes one unhappy. Therefore, to be happy one must love or love to suffer or suffer from too much happiness.
- Woody Allen
Each time that one loves is the only time one has ever loved. Difference of object does not alter singleness of passion. It merely intensifies it. We can have but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible.
- Oscar Wilde
It's just so uninteresting to live without love.Life has not risk. Love just seems to make life not just livable, but a gallant, gallant event.
- Toni Morrison
Love is an alliance of friendship and animalism; if the former predominates it is passion exalted and refined; if the latter, gross and sensual.
- C C Colton
To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude.
- Joseph Addison
Jealousy would be far less torturous if we understood that love is a passion entirely unrelated to our merits.
- Paul Eldridge
Make love now, by night and by day, in winter and in summer... You are in the world for that and the rest of life is nothing but vanity, illusion, waste. There is only one science, love, only one riches, love, only one policy, love. To make love is all the law, and the prophets.
- Anatole France
The only difference between a caprice and a life-long passion is that the caprice lasts a little longer.
- Oscar Wilde
Oh with what passion my heart is burning, I fear you will never know.
- Anonymous