Stendhal Passion Quotations

In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future.

The more a race is governed by its passions, the less it has acquired the habit of cautious and reasoned argument, the more intense will be its love of music.

Our true passions are selfish.

One-half, the finest half, of life is hidden from the man who does not love with passion.

Every true passion thinks only of itself.