#pa

His sudden mad love for Sibyl Vane was a psychological phenomenon of no small interest. There was no doubt that curiosity had much to do with it, curiosity and the desire for new experiences; yet it was not a simple but rather a very complex passion. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#curiosity #desire #life #love #passion

Man has gone out to explore other worlds and other civilizations without having explored his own labyrinth of dark passages and secret chambers, and without finding what lies behind doorways that he himself has sealed. ↗

— Stanisław Lem

#closed-mindedness #discovery #humanity #ignorance #mankind

- Me asustas (...). Quien es capaz de amar con esa intensidad, puede odiar de la misma manera. ↗

— Ángeles Ibirika

#español #hate #love #odio #spanish

He’d stared into her eyes, dark with confusion and unwilling passion, and for one stark, horrible instant, he’d wished to be that different man. He’d wished to be worthy of her. ↗

— Anna Campbell

#passion #romance #romantic #love

You don't understand,' she said, and there was a puzzling trace of resentment in her voice. 'Children never do. The love a parent has for a child, there's nothing else like it. No other love so consuming. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#love

If loving you is the worst mistake that I've done, just let it be the only one mistake that I've done. I promise, I wouldn't do any more mistake. I promise it would be the one-and only mistake that I've done ↗

— Ruth Margareta

#pain #love

Please be peaceful. We believe in law and order. We are not advocating violence, I want you to love your enemies... for what we are doing is right, what we are doing is just -- and God is with us. ↗

— Martin Luther King Jr.

#pacifism #serenity #love

I had no right to want you — but I reached out and took you anyway. And now look what’s become of you! Trying to seduce a vampire." (Edward Cullen, Eclipse)~Stephenie Meyer ↗

— Stephenie Meyer

#love #sparkly #love

Do you really want to put yourself through this? Is loving me really enough to endure everything you have to just to be with me?" Meeting his fiery gaze, I ran my fingers through his hair, kissed him gently before I attempted to set us both free. "It will always be enough. ↗

— Rachael Wade

#fantasy-romance #paranormal-romance #love

The engaged mind, illuminated by truth, awakens awareness; the engaged heart, affected by love, awakens passion. May I say once more - this essential energy of the soul is not an ecstatic trance, high emotion or a sanguine stance toward life: It is a fierce longing for God, an unyielding resolve to live in and out of our belovedness. - pg. 152 ↗

— Brennan Manning

#life #passion #life