Jeanette Winterson Quotes About Passion

Quotes about: Passion

• Somewhere between fear and sex passion is.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Sex, Passion

  Jeanette Winterson (2011). “The Passion”, p.62, Random House

• To kiss well one must kiss solely. No groping hands or stammering hearts. The lips and the lips alone are the pleasure. Passion is sweeter split strand by strand. Divided and re-divided like mercury then gathered up only at the last moment.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Passion, Heart, Kissing

  Jeanette Winterson (2007). “The Passion”, p.59, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

• We fear passion and laugh at too much love and those who love too much. And still we long to feel.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Laughter, Fear, Passion

  Jeanette Winterson (2007). “The Passion”, p.155, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

• I didn't know what hate felt like, not the hate that comes after love. It's huge and desperate and it longs to be proved wrong. And every day it's proved right it grows a little more monstrous. If the love was passion, the hate will be obsession. A need to see the once-loved weak and cowed beneath pity. Disgust is close and dignity is far away. The hate is not only for the once loved, it's for yourself too; how could you ever have loved this?

  Jeanette Winterson

  Hate, Passion, Needs

  "The Passion". Book by Jeanette Winterson, 1987.

• Words like passion and ecstasy, we learn them but they stay flat on the page. Sometimes we try to turn them over, find out what's on the other side, and everyone has a story to tell os a woman or a brothel or an opium night or a war. We fear it. We fear passion and laugh at too much love and those who love too much.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Love, War, Passion

• Love, they say, enslaves and passion is a demon and many have been lost for love. I know this is true, but I know too that without love we grope the tunnels of our lives and never see the sun. When I fell in love it was as though I looked into a mirror for the first time and saw myself. I lifted my hand in bewilderment and felt my cheeks, my neck. This was me. And when I had looked at myself and grown accustomed to who I was, I was not afraid to hate parts of me because I wanted to be worthy of the mirror bearer.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Life, Hate, Passion

• Infatuation.First Love.Lust.My passion can be explained away.But this is sure: Whatever she touches, she reveals

  Jeanette Winterson

  Passion, First Love, Lust

  Jeanette Winterson (2007). “The Passion”, p.123, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

• St Paul said it is better to marry than to burn, but my mother taught me it is better to burn than to marry. She wanted to be a nun. She hoped I would be a priest and saved to give me an education while my friends plaited rope and trailed after the plough. I can't be a priest because although my heart is as loud as hers I can pretend no answering riot. I have shouted to God and the Virgin, but they have not shouted back and I'm not interested in the still small voice. Surely a god can meet passion with passion? She says he can. Then he should.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Mother, Passion, Heart

  Jeanette Winterson (2007). “The Passion”, p.9, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

• What a strange world it is where you can have as much sex as you like but love is taboo. I'm talking about the real thing, the grand passion, which may not allow affection or convenience or happiness. The truth is that love smashes into your life like an ice floe, and even if your heart is built like the Titanic you go down. That's the size of it, the immensity of it. It's not proper, it's not clean, it's not containable.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Love, Sex, Real

  "The Powerbook". Book by Jeanette Winterson, 2000.

• Passion is not well bred.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Passion, Wells

  Jeanette Winterson (2013). “Written On The Body”, p.162, Random House

• Passion is for holidays, not homecoming.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Passion, Holiday, Homecoming

  Jeanette Winterson (2013). “Written On The Body”, p.27, Random House

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