Quotes About Passion

Old love, middle love, the kind of love that knows itself and knows that nothing lasts, is a desperate shared wildness.

What is this life but the sound of an appalling love.

Tu dois aimer. Tu dois ressentir. C'est la raison pour laquelle tu es ici sur terre. Tu es ici pour mettre ton coeur en danger

You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart.

Decide first what is authentic,then go after it with all your heart.

She gave her husband such a night of sexual pleasure that his eyes followed her constantly after that, narrow and hot. He grew molten when she passed near other men, and at night they made their own shaking tent. They got teased too much and moved farther off, into the brush, into the nesting ground of shy and holy loons. There, no one could hear them. In solitude they made love until they became gaunt and hungry, pale windigos with aching eyes, tongues of flame.

I'm still not strictly rational. How could I be? I sell books.

The zest of the work is maintained by something better than the mere accumulation of money.

It often happens that our zeal is at variance with our understanding.

People were "governed more by passion and prejudice than by an enlightened sense of their interests

It was the first time I had ever seen him show any but pleasant feeling, and there could be no doubt that he was aflame with anger and resentment.

Rockefeller's passion for golf was linked to his medical problems of the 1890s, which turned him into a fitness buff.

Nothing could keep him from his morning game.

Golf was his greatest indulgence.

disse Serena.

You are not quite ready yet, though. For the next six months, practice until your arms ache and your lips bleed. The suffering will be good for you. A slight smile crossed the conductor's face. If you haven't already found a woman who will break your heart, find one. What we played tonight, especially the Mozart, requires suffering.

Growing into leadership begins with self-leadership—which starts with discovering and nurturing the inner drive that will spur you to seemingly impossible achievements. That drive may be moving toward your passion, if you're lucky enough to know

The danger of Italy...is, it tends to make one florid.

Frederick Buechner said, "The place God calls you is the place where your deep gladness and the world's deep hunger meet."7

But then, no artist is normal; if he were, he wouldn't be an artist.

La pasión se ocultaba en los altibajos de su temperamento, en sus crisis melancólicas, en su sensibilidad de nervio en carne viva.

no hay nada que avive tanto la pasión como la sensación de que el amado se nos escapa.

Cuando nos gusta un libro, siempre nos parece que sus páginas nos hablan directamente al corazón, que sus palabras son nuestras. Y en alguna medida es cierto que es así, porque al leer completamos la obra, la interpretamos, la enriquecemos con nuestra necesidad y nuestra pasión.

Qué puede haber más tópico y ramplón que ese afán de ser y no morir? No ha debido de existir ni un solo ser humano, desde el principio de los tiempos, que no haya experimentado alguna vez ese espejismo de hermosura, esa necesidad de permanencia. Hasta los idiotas tienen inquietudes trascendentes y aspiran alguna vez a la eternidad. La metafísica es la más común de las bajas pasiones.