Jeanette Winterson Quotes about Passion

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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

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

Somewhere between fear and sex passion is.

Jeanette Winterson

Sex, Passion

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.