Wild Passion Quotes

• Love, genuine passionate love, was his for the first time.

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  Jack London

  Genuine Love   Passionate   Firsts  

  Jack London, Gene Engene, Books in Motion (2007). “Call of the Wild”, p.126

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• There is an evening twilight of the heart, When its wild passion-waves are lulled to rest.

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  Fitz-Greene Halleck

  Twilight   Passion   Heart  

  Fitz-Greene Halleck (1827). “Alnwick Castle, with Other Poems”, p.31

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• But who can describe the overweening pride of men? Or women mad with passion, reckless in their hearts, soulmates to every kind of ruin that befalls us? Wild passion, unrestrained, boundless, that overcomes the women, perverts the yoke of wedlock for beasts and men alike.

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  Aeschylus

  Soulmate   Passion   Heart  

  Aeschylus (2011). “The Complete Aeschylus: Volume I: The Oresteia”, p.117, Oxford University Press

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• You who love wild passions, flee the holy austerity of my pleasures. All here breathes of God, peace and truth.

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  Jean Racine

  Passion   Tragedy   Literature  

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• I have known exile and a wild passion Of longing changing to a cold ache. King, beggar and fool , I have been all by turns, Knowing the body's sweetness, the mind 's treason ; Taliesin still, I show you a new world , risen, Stubborn with beauty , out of the heart 's need .

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  R. S. Thomas

  Kings   Passion   Heart  

  "Song at the Year's Turning : Poems, 1942-1954" by R. S. Thomas". Book by R. S. Thomas, 1955.

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• I loved him as we always love the first time: with idolatry and wild passion.

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  Voltaire

  Love   Passion   Firsts  

  "Candide".

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• I have seen so much obstructed potential among people who lack personal discipline, who just slough it off, whatever it is, and who think that nothing matters very much. I want my daughter to have what I think of as a capacity for self-discipline. Not the sort of self-discipline that diminishes her own wild passions, but that makes it safer for her to own those wild passions.

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  Marianne Williamson

  Daughter   Passion   Thinking  

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• A man who allows wild passion to arise within, himself burns his heart, then after burning adds the wind that thereto which ignites the fire again, or not, as the case may be.

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  Jack Kerouac

  Passion   Heart   Men  

  "Some of the Dharma". Book by Jack Kerouac, 1997.

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• Medievalism, with its saints and martyrs, its love of self-torture, its wild passion for wounding itself, its gashing with knives, and its whipping with rods - Medievalism is real Christianity, and the medieval Christ is the real Christ.

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  Oscar Wilde

  Real   Passion   Self  

  Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.109, Wordsworth Editions

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