Quotes About Passion

Nearly twice as many people hate their jobs as love their jobs.

Primera causa: desconexión de un trabajo con sentido

I've got a very deep and abiding passion about education being far more than buildings and textbooks it's what children bring into school with them.

How may I hate that which I love with such intensity of passion? How should I abhor that for which my every drop of blood is boiling?

Everything a human being wants can be divided into four components love, adventure, power and fame.

Love and desire are the spirit's wings to great deeds.

That is the true season of love, when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved so before us, and that no one will love in the same way after us.

Lontani dall'oggetto amato sembriamo diventare, quanto più è intenso il nostro affetto, tanto più padroni di noi stessi, scaricando all'interno di noi tutta la violenza della passione che si dirigeva verso l'esterno; ma se la persona a cui credevamo di poter rinunciare si ripresenta all'improvviso ai nostri occhi con tutta la parvenza dell'irrinunciabile, allora veniamo rapidamente, subitaneamente strappati fuori dell'errore." - Le affinità elettive.

Io soffro molto, perché ho perduto ciò ch'era la sola voluttà della mia vita, la santa forza animatrice con cui cercavo mondi intorno a me. Essa non è più.

Love and desire are the spiritís wings to great deeds.

There is no surer method of evading the world than by following Art, and no surer method of linking oneself to it than by Art.

The fate of the architect is the strangest of all. How often he expends his whole soul, his whole heart and passion, to produce buildings into which he himself may never enter.

Oh God, how do the world and heavens confine themselves, when our hearts tremble in their own barriers!

I have so much in me, and the feeling for her absorbs it all; I have so much, and without her it all comes to nothing.

I love those who yearn for the impossible.

The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.

We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

Sometimes I don't understand how another can love her, is allowed to love her, since I love her so completely myself, so intensely, so fully, grasp nothing, know nothing, have nothing but her!

This is the true measure of love: when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved so before us, and that no one will ever love in the same way after us.

To live within limits. To want one thing. Or a few things very much and love them dearly. Cling to them, survey them from every angle. Become one with them - that is what makes the poet, the artist, the human being.

While Man's desires and aspirations stir, He cannot choose but err.

nothing puts me so completely out of patience as the utterance of a wretched commonplace when I am talking from my inmost heart.

Poetry, dreams, desire, everything leads me to you.

That is the true season of love, when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved so before us, and that no one will love in the same way as us.