Character Quote by Frank Pittman

Passion and marriage are essentially irreconcilable. Their origins and their ends make them mutually exclusive. Their co-existence in our midst constantly raises insoluble problems,…

— Denis de Rougemont

Passion, sexual passion, may lead to marriage, but cannot sustain marriage. The purpose of marriage is the raising of children, for which patience, not…

— Edward Abbey

When passion is not fed, it changes to need. At this juncture, marriage becomes a fixed idea in the mind of the bourgeois, being…

— Honore de Balzac

At this point, we are living one of the greatest experiments in humankind - to create something that has, throughout history, been considered a…

— Esther Perel

Passion is always a mystery and unaccountable, and unfortunately there is no doubt that life does not spare its purest children; often it is…

— Hermann Hesse

“For sense gratification, a man in the mode of passion wants some honor in society, or in the nation, and he wants to have…

— A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda

I think that enduring, committed love between a married couple, along with raising children, is the most noble act anyone can aspire to. It…

— Nicholas Sparks

Passion does not make careful arguments: it declares itself, and that is enough.

— Jane Hirshfield

Most marriages recognize this paradox: Passion destroys passion; we want what puts an end to wanting what we want.

— John Fowles

Passion is not well bred.

— Jeanette Winterson

I think our culture doesn't recognize passion, because real passion has the power to disrupt boundaries.

— Bell Hooks

Passion mutates into procedures, into rules and roles. Instead of purpose, we focus on policies. Instead of being free to create, we impose constraints…

— Margaret J. Wheatley