Passion

If I had a flower for every time I thought of you, I could walk in my garden forever

Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; and every little absence is an age

In the eyes of a lover pockmarks are dimples

Love isn't decent. Love is glorious and shameless

Love is the irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired

The passionate are like men standing on their heads; they see all things the wrong way

Thou art to me a delicious torment

Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things

Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time

The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions

There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.

Man is only great when he acts from passion

Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation

Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.

Love in its essence is spiritual fire

My imagination can picture no fairer happiness than to continue living for art.

Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life

Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance

Admiration is a very short-lived passion, that immediately decays upon growing familiar with its object

When a man becomes familiar with his goddess, she quickly sinks into a woman