Quotes About Passion

La cautela es el camino de la mediocridad. Una mediocridad que fluye sin pasiones es el máximo que la mayoría de la gente cree ser capaz de alcanzar".

You don't write for success. That takes part of your attention away from the writing. If you're really doing it, that's all you're doing: writing.

I know the price of success: dedication, hard work, and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen.

You have to go wholeheartedly into anything in order to achieve anything worth having.

With Angela drawn to the hangdog look and Malachy lonely after three months in jail, there was bound to be a knee-trmbler. A knee-trmbler is the act itself done up against a wall, man and woman up on their toes, straining so hard their knees tremble with the excitement that's in it.

The fire, baby. It'll burn us both. There's no place in this world for our kind of fire. My warrior woman. My valkyrie. You'll always be mine. Always. And never.".

oh god it's wonderful to get out of bed and drink too much coffee and smoke too many cigarettes and love you so much

I am the least difficult of men. All I want is boundless love.

It's a bright summer day, and I want to be wanted more than anything else in the world.

because none of you know what you want follow me because I'm not going anywhere I'll just bleed so the stars can have something dark to shine in look at my legs I am the Nijinsky of dreams

Love is a kind of symptom that arises through the repression of libido.

My one sensuous fault was women. I had a Cyprian lust for them.

The bassoon is one of my favorite instruments. It has a medieval aroma, like the days when everything used to sound like that. Some people crave baseball...I find this unfathomable, but I can easily understand why a person could get excited about playing the bassoon.

Music is the best.

You are at once both the quiet and the confusion of my heart.

Love is a drama of contradictions.

You are at once both the quiet and the confusion of my heart; imagine my heartbeat when you are in this state.

Was he an animal, that music could move him so? He felt as if the way to the unknown nourishment he longed for were coming to light.

I long for you; I who usually longs without longing, as though I am unconscious and absorbed in neutrality and apathy, really, utterly long for every bit of you.

Nor is it perhaps really love when I say that for me you are the most beloved; In this love you are like a knife, with which I explore myself.

If you become involved with me, you will be throwing yourself into the abyss.

There they lay, but not in the forgetfulness of the previous night. She was seeking and he was seeking, they raged and contorted their faces and bored their heads into each others bosom in the urgency of seeking something, and their embraces and their tossing limbs did not avail to make them forget, but only reminded them of what they sought

My job is unbearable to me because it conflicts with my only desire and my only calling, which is literature. Since I am nothing but literature and can and want to be nothing else, my job will never take possession of me, it may, however, shatter me completely, and this is by no means a remote possibility.

I have no literary interests; I am made of literature. I am nothing else and cannot be anything else.