Love without passion is dreary; passion without love is horrific. -Lord Byron

Intellectual passion drives out sensuality. -Leonardo da Vinci

The pleasure of love is in loving; we are happier in the passion we feel than in the passion we inspire. -François de la Rochefoucauld

Passion, it lies in all of us, sleeping... waiting... and though unwanted... unbidden... it will stir... open its jaws and howl. It speaks to us... guides us... passion rules us all, and we obey. What other choice do we have? Passion is the source of our finest moments. The joy of love... the clarity of hatred... and the ecstasy of grief. It hurts sometimes more than we can bear. If we could live without passion maybe we'd know some kind of peace... but we would be hollow... Empty rooms shuttered and dank. Without passion we'd be truly dead. -Joss Whedon

Let men tremble to win the hand of woman, unless they win along with it the utmost passion of her heart! Else it may be their miserable fortune, when some mightier touch than their own may have awakened all her sensibilities, to be reproached even for the calm content, the marble image of happiness, which they will have imposed upon her as the warm reality. -Nathaniel Hawthorne

The more extreme and the more expressed that passion is, the more unbearable does life seem without it. It reminds us that if passion dies or is denied, we are partly dead... -John Boorman

The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration. -Pearl S. Buck

Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty. -Mother Theresa

Man has no choice but to love. For when he does not, he finds his alternatives lie in loneliness, destruction and despair. -Leo Buscaglia

You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with. -Wayne Dyer

Love is a state of mind which has nothing to do with the mind. -Bob Phillips