#passionate love

As you get older, you realize it's work. It's that fine line between love and companionship. But passionate love? I'd love to know how to make that last. ↗

— Tracey Ullman

#companionship #fine #fine line #get #how

Passionate love, I take it, rarely lasts long, and is very troublesome while it does last. Mutual esteem is very much more valuable. ↗

— Anthony Trollope

#esteem #i #last #lasts #long

What we know is that Shakespeare wrote perhaps the most remarkable body of passionate love poetry in the English language to a young man. ↗

— Stephen Greenblatt

#english #english language #know #language #love

I had, early in life, a love for staging, but it is fast dying out. Nine hours over a rough road are enough to root out the most passionate love of that kind. ↗

— Maria Mitchell

#early #enough #fast #had #hours

When you have children it completely shifts your focus; they become the most passionate love of your life. ↗

— Louis de Bernieres

#children #completely #focus #life #love

Happy is he who has laid up in his youth, and held fast in all fortune, a genuine and passionate love of reading. ↗

— Rufus Choate

#fortune #genuine #happy #held #his