Quotes About Passion

And what are you that, missing you, I should be kept awake As many nights as there are days With weeping for your sake? And what are you that, missing you, As many days as crawl I should be listening to the wind And looking at the wall? I know a man that's a braver man And twenty men as kind, And what are you, that you should be The one man in my mind? Yet women's ways are witless ways, As any sage will tell,— And what am I, that I should love So wisely and so well?

I would kiss you, had I the courage.

It is not enough to know your craft - you have to have feeling. Science is all very well, but for us imagination is worth far more.

We are all mortal until the first kiss and the second glass of wine.

No me importa nada más, le juro. Me alcanza saberla conmigo en este entuerto. Sabiendo eso, me aguanto el silencio y la distancia y los años y lo que venga. Eso es todo, Ofelia. Disculpe la osadía de escribirle esta carta. Y disculpe la osadía de decirle, en cinco letras imperdonables: la amo.

Acabo de entender que el fútbol no es ni más ni menos que eso. Eso que me dio mi viejo, y que yo le paso a mi hijo. Ese amor gratuito, esa esperanza desbocada. Ese dolor, esa rabia, esa fe rotunda en que, alguna vez, habrá revancha

Lo que tiene que decirle, lo que necesita decirle, y lo que al mismo tiempo le horroriza que sepa, es que él la quiere con él, para siempre, en todos lados y a todas horas o a casi todas, porque ha naufragado en tal estado de adoración que no entiende la vida sin ella

Parece que la quiero, Ofelia. Mil perdones, pero me

ljubav je bozhansko osecanje i svaka nova zaljubljenost obavezno u sebi nosi i senku zhalosti zbog delica sopstvenog ja koje se daruje objektu strasti.

Men love their ideas more than their lives. And the more preposterous the idea, the more eager they are to die for it. And to kill for it.

Do not burn yourselves out. Be as I am -- a reluctant enthusiast ... a part-time crusader, a half-hearted fanatic. Save the other half of yourselves and your lives for pleasure and adventure.

Be loyal to what you love, be true to the earth, fight your enemies with passion and laughter.

Love implies anger. The man who is angered by nothing cares about nothing.

Music clouds the intellect but clarifies the heart.

I'm sure as hell not going to fight over her. I got more interesting things to do than that. There's nothing more interesting than a woman, George. Not in this world.

How become a writer? Naturally.

So I write mainly for the fun of it, the hell of it, the duty of it. I enjoy writing and will probly be a scribbler on my dying day, sprawled on some stony trail halfway between two dry waterholes.

There was this tendency to drift. And yet  when she thought about it, what did she really want to do? Or be? She had given up dancing-the dance-because it was too demanding, because it required an almost total devotion which she was unwilling to give. The cruelest art. 

In my case, saving the world was only a hobby.

Civilization is tolerance, detachment and humor, or passion, anger, revenge; culture is the entrance examination, the gas chamber, the doctoral dissertation and the electric chair;

I am-really am-an extremist, one who lives and loves by choice far out on the very verge of things, on the edge of the abyss, where this world falls off into the depths of another.

Serenity is for the gods—not becoming in a mortal. Better to be partisan and passionate on this earth; be plenty objective enough when dead.

Martha: Oh, I like your anger. I think that's what I like about you most. Your anger.

I rate enthusiasm even above professional skill.