Fifteen Quotes About Passionate Love From the Classic Literature

A Place for the Topic of Love in the Classic Books

Books are the door to people's souls. You can find a lot about a person by skimming through their library and the authors they follow. Book reading was once considered a magical escape from reality, where love knew no boundaries and magic seemed to be alive. Other times people found solace by relating to the tragic endings of love stories, some tales of which are still heard today. Nothing beats the storytelling in classic literature. Everything from the character, the setting, and the lines were written with finesse. It seems that nowadays, the number of classic literature lovers is decreasing, but it will not be an exaggeration to say that books remain among the best conversation starters when you meet a person for the first time and really value intelligent partners.

Best Quotes About Passionate Love

Who doesn't love and appreciate an excellent and heart-touching quote about love? Quotes make a great way of initiating a conversation, flirting or pouring your heart out in a love letter. Here's a list of a few hand-picked quotes about a passionate love that we consider to be the best.

1. Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen

"In vain, I've struggled. It will not do! My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you."

2. Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy

"He stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking."

3. Anne of Avonlea - Lucy Maud Montgomery

"Perhaps, after all, the romance didn't come into one's life with pomp and blare, like a gay knight riding down; perhaps it crept to one's side like an old friend through quiet ways; perhaps it revealed itself in seeming prose, until some sudden shaft of illumination flung athwart its pages betrayed the rhythm and the music, perhaps . . . perhaps . . . love unfolded naturally out of a beautiful friendship, as a goldenhearted rose slipping from its green sheath."

4. A letter to Fanny Brawne - John Keats

"I've been astonished that Men could die Martyrs for their religion—I've shudder'd at it. I shudder no more—I'd be martyr'd for my Religion—Love is my religion—I'd die for that. I could die for you. [. . .] My love is selfish. I cannot breathe without you."

5. Great Expectations - Charles Dickens

"I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be."

6. Romeo and Juliet - William Shakespeare

"When he shall die, Take him and cut him out in little stars, and he will make the face of heaven so fine That all the world will be in love with night And pay no worship to the garish sun."

7. Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray

"It's better to love wisely, no doubt: but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all."

8. Jane Eyre by Amy Corzine - Charlotte Brontë

"I've for the first time found what I can truly love–I've found you. You're my sympathy–my better self–my good angel–I'm bound to you with a strong attachment. I think you good, gifted, lovely: a fervent, a solemn passion is conceived in my heart; it leans to you, draws you to my centre and spring of life, wrap my existence about you–and, kindling in pure, powerful flame, fuses you and me in one."

9. Jane Eyre by Amy Corzine - Charlotte Brontë

"Every atom of your flesh is as dear to me as my own: in pain and sickness it would still be dear. Your mind is my treasure.”

10. Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell

"You should be kissed and often, and by someone who knows how."

11. Les Misérables - Victor Hugo

"To love or have loved, that is enough. Ask nothing further. There is no other pearl to be found in the dark folds of life."

12. The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald

"He knew that when he kissed this girl, and forever wed his unutterable visions to her perishable breath, his mind would never romp again like the mind of God. So he waited, listening for a moment longer to the tuning-fork that had been struck upon a star. Then he kissed her. At his lips' touch she blossomed for him like a flower and the incarnation was complete."

13. Possession - A.S. Byatt

"I cannot let you burn me up, nor can I resist you. No mere human can stand in a fire and not be consumed."

14. The Rover - Aphra Benn

"One hour of right down love is worth an age of dully living on."

15. Prometheus Unbound - Percy Bysshe Shelley

"As in the soft and sweet eclipse, When soul meets soul on lovers' lips"

Referring to someone else’s expression is never as good as finding one of your own, yet fitting in a quote between the lines is a precious gift of recognition and understanding. Your lover will know that you think of them when reading how masters of the writer’s craft compose their words to bring one’s love to life.