Passionate Lovers Quotes:

You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.

- Dr. Seuss

topic: Love, Life, Relationship, Impress A Girl, Say I Love You

it is a curious subject of observation and inquiry, whether hatred and love be not the same thing at bottom.

- Nathaniel Hawthorne

topic: Hate, Love Is, Hatred, Desolate, Passionate Lovers

Am I in love? Absolutely. I'm in love with ancient philosophers, foreign painters, classic authors, and musicians who have died long ago. I'm a passionate lover. I fawn over these people. I have given them my heart and my soul. The trouble is, I'm unable to love anyone tangible. I have sacrificed a physical bond, for a metaphysical relationship. I am the ultimate idealistic lover.

- James Dean

topic: Heart, Long, People, Passionate Lovers, Fawns

If you have not learned to be a passionate lover, do not count your life as lived. On the day of reckoning, it will not be counted.

- Rumi

topic: Love, Passionate, Reckoning, Passionate Lovers, Passionate Love

Perfection. Excellence. What a passionate lover. But once having tasted the lips of excellence, once having given oneself to its perfection, how dreary and burdensome and filled with anomie are the remainder of one's waking hours trapped in the shackled lock-step of the merely ordinary, the barely acceptable, the just okay and not a stroke better.

- Harlan Ellison

topic: Perfection, Excellence, Ordinary, Passionate Lovers, Passionate Love

I am a passionate lover of the snapshot, because of all photographic images it comes closest to truth.

- Lisette Model

source: Elisabeth Sussman, Lisette Model (2001). “Lisette Model”, Phaidon Press

topic: Love, Photography, Truth, Passionate Lovers