Passionate Love Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old passionate love quotes, passionate love sayings, and passionate love proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.

Love is my religion — I could die for it. John Keats
Let your love be like the misty rains, coming softly, but flooding the river. Malagasy Proverb
Life has always taken place in a tumult without apparent cohesion, but it only finds its grandeur and its reality in ecstasy and in ecstatic love. Georges Bataille
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength; loving someone deeply gives you courage. Lao Tzu
Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it.... It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more. Erica Jong
For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul. Judy Garland
I believe in a kind of love that brings sailors home from the sea. Made up of seconds and years and the nospace between hands on skin. I cannot believe how much goes on. I can't even cut out enough red hearts to keep up. Sarah Mimnaugh
My bounty is as boundless as the sea, / My love as deep; the more I give to thee, / The more I have, for both are infinite. William Shakespeare (Romeo and Juliet)
I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride; so I love you because I know no other way than this: where I does not exist nor you, so close that your hand on my chest is my hand, so close that your eyes close as I fall asleep. Pablo Neruda
Nay, let us walk from fire unto fire, / From passionate pain to deadlier delight, - / I am too young to live without desire, / Too young art thou to waste this summer night. Oscar Wilde
Passion is momentary; love is enduring. John Wooden
A man reserves his true and deepest love not for the species of woman in whose company he finds himself electrified and enkindled, but for that one in whose company he may feel tenderly drowsy. George Jean Nathan
The fact is that love is of two kinds, one which commands, and one which obeys. The two are quite distinct, and the passion to which the one gives rise is not the passion of the other. Honoré de Balzac
When you're in love you never really know whether your elation comes from the qualities of the one you love, or if it attributes them to her; whether the light which surrounds her like a halo comes from you, from her, or from the meeting of your sparks. Natalie Clifford Barney
Love is a sacred reserve of energy; it is like the blood of spiritual evolution. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
The truth is that love smashes into your life like an ice floe, and even if your heart is built like the Titanic you go down. Jeanette Winterson
I was nauseous and tingly all over. I was either in love or I had smallpox. Woody Allen
The best love is the kind that awakens the soul and makes us reach for more, that plants a fire in our hearts and brings peace to our minds. And that's what you’ve given me. That's what I'd hoped to give you forever. Nicholas Sparks
When we are in love, we open to all that life has to offer with passion, excitement, and acceptance. . . . Evolution and all hopes for a better world rest in the fearlessness and open-hearted vision of people who embrace life. John Lennon
Passions and desires, like the two twists of a rope, mutually mix one with the other, and twine inextricably round the heart. Richard E. Burton
First and passionate love, it stands alone, like Adams recollection of his fall. Lord Byron