Quotes About Passion

AÅŸk için her ÅŸey imgedir; ama imge de hakikattir.

By comparison with a passionate age, an age without passion gains in scope what is loses in intensity .

After all, it is the best time of one's life, the first period of falling in love, when with every meeting, every glance, one brings home something new to rejoice over.

What I really lack is to be clear in my mind what I am to do, not what I must know…What matters is to find a purpose…to find a truth that is true for me, to find the idea for which I am willing to live and die…This is what my soul thirsts for as the African desert thirsts for water.

el mundo entiende tan poco de entusiasmo como un financiero de caridad.

Our age is essentially one of understanding and reflection, without passion, momentarily bursting into enthusiasm, and shrewdly relapsing into repose. ... There is no more action or decision in our day than there is perilous delight in swimming in shallow waters.

The fortunate chance in life is that the two correspond, that my wish is my duty and vice versa, and the task of most men in life is precisely to remain within their duty and by their enthusiasm to transform it into their wish.

Happy my lot in life if my desire coincides with my duty, and conversely; and most people's task in life is exactly to stay under their obligation, and by their enthusiasm to transform it into their wish.

existing cannot be done without passion.

joy and refreshment in contemplating the great men who have found that precious stone for which they sell all, even their lives... proceeding on their chosen course without vacillating...absorbed in themselves and in working towards their higher goal.

What Christendom needs at every moment is someone who expresses Christianity uncalculatingly or with absolute recklessness.

Love from the soul is a continuation in time, sensual love a disappearance in time (pp 101)

love is all; it gives all and it takes all.

Intohimo ei merkitse sanoja.

What matters is to find my purpose, to see what it really is that God wills that I shall do; the crucial thing is to find a truth that is truth for me, to find the idea for which I am willing to live and die

Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin .. it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring

Ideas themselves were sensual things to him.

Watch it, minx, he warned with a lift of his brow. If you intend to taunt me for every foolish statement I've made in my life, you'll force me to play Rockton and lock you up in my dark, forbidding manor while I have my wicked way with you. That sounds perfectly awful,she said gazing at the man she loved. How soon can we start?

Sometimes the way to a man's heart is through his talleywacker.

This is the problem with hunger. This is the problem with love. There is no end in sight.

The thought of squeezing back into his stifling pre-war life stopped his breath in panic. In truth, the only time he breathed easily was with Harry, whom he loved with that same red raw ferocity — and whom he'd love with passion given the chance. But he wouldn't get that chance. The world forbade it.

I want more than what I want. (Vina Apsara)

Ignorantly is how we all fall in love; for it is a kind of fall. Closing our eyes, we leap from that cliff in hope of a soft landing. Nor is it always soft; but still, without that leap nobody comes to life.

What grows best in the heat: fantasy; unreason; lust.