Best quotes of passion and love from great thinkers to celebrate Valentine's Day.
Quotations of love and passion from some of the world's great thinkers have been provided to celebrate Valentine's Day. They serve as a testament to how much intensity a human heart can hold.
Love and Passion Quotes for Valentine's Day
- Honoré de Balzac. "All humanity is passion; without passion, religion, history, novels, art would be ineffectual."
- Roland Barthes. "What the public wants is the image of passion, not passion itself."
- Cicero: "We should measure affection, not like youngsters by the ardour of its passion, but by its strength and constancy."
- Charles Caleb Colton. "Of all the passions, jealousy is that which exacts the hardest service and pays the bitterest wages. Its service is to watch the success of our enemy; its wages, to be sure of it."
- Lawrence Durrell. "It is not love that is blind, but jealousy."
- Robert Frost. "Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length."
- D.H. Lawrence. "Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot."
- C.S. Lewis. "Mortal lovers must not try to remain at the first step; for lasting passion is the dream of a harlot and from it we wake in despair."
- Anne Morrow Lindbergh. "Charles is life itself – pure, life, force, like sunlight – and it is for this that I married him and this that holds me to him – caring always, caring desperately what happens to him and whatever happens to be involved in."
- Somerset Maugham. "The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned."
- Ovid. "Wine gives courage and makes men more apt for passion."
- François de la Rochefoucauld. "The pleasure of love is in the giving; and there is more joy in the passion one feels than in that which one inspires."
- Seneca. "It is easier to exclude harmful passions than to rule them, and to deny them admittance than to control them after they have been admitted."
- William Shakespeare. "Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus, but use all gently. For in the very torrent, tempest, and as I may say, whirlwind of passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it smoothness."
- Sophocles: "One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life: That word is love."
- Robert Sternberg. "Passion is the quickest to develop, and the quickest to fade. Intimacy develops more slowly, and commitment more gradually still."
- Alfred, Lord Tennyson. "The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions."
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