Quotes About Passion

What is the whole of our existence but the sound of an appalling love?

It wasn't that she neglected her other duties, rather it was the playing itself—distilled of longing—that disturbed her sisters. In her music Sister Cecilia explored profound emotions. Her phrasing described her faith and doubt, her passion as the bride of Christ, her loneliness, shame, ultimate redemption.

Ayiih! Tell me, does this Chopin know love songs? I have a few I don't sing unless I mean for sure to capture my woman." "This Chopin makes songs so beautiful your knees shake. Dogs cry. The trees moan. Your thoughts fly up nowhere. You can't think. You become flooded in the heart.

Fidelis was not a religious man, except when it came to his knives.

Je vis, je meurs ; je me brûle et me noie ; J'ai chaud extrême en endurant froidure

In the kitchens of love, after all, vice is like the pepper in a good sauce; it brings out the flavor, it's indispensable.

Whether you're making love to the ladies or postulating the infinite, you'll still get all flabby one day!

We keep going, we fuel and refuel, we pass on our life to a biped of the next century, with frenzy, at any cost, as if it were the greatest of pleasures to perpetuate ourselves, as if, when all's said and done, it would make us immortal.

De cum pui piciorul undeva,ambiÅ£ii se trezesc în tine.Eu unul aveam vocaÅ£ia s? fiu bolnav,bolnav ÅŸi nimic mai mult.

They die of love—inside. After

ils fracassaient autour d'eux un idiome de castagnettes en brandissant au-dessus de leurs têtes des mains crispées dans un vent d'arguments.

It's harder to lose the wish to love than the wish to live.

Det er sværere at give afkald på kærligheden end på livet.

Camille Claudel, Auguste Rodin's model and thrown-away lover.

education snuffs the spirit right out of some people. She'll wind up being an artist or a poet or an actor or a sailor—something that would scare the life out of most folks

Love doesn't give you control—it takes control of you.

You make it sound mad," Sylvie said. "As if it drives you crazy.

The painter must give a completely free rein to any feeling or sensations he may have and reject nothing to which he is naturally drawn.

Once in his life, every man is entitled to fall madly in love with a gorgeous red head.

Bukan kegagalan uang merupakan kejahatan, tapi cita-cita yang dangkal

Those who can soar to the highest heights can also plunge to the deepest depths and the natures which enjoy most keenly are those which also suffer most sharply.

Tell me this--if you knew you would be poor as a church mouse all your life--if you knew you'd never have a line published--would you still go on writing-- would you?' 'Of course I would,' said Emily disdainfully. 'Why, I have to write--I can't help it at times--I've just got to.

When one great passion seizes possession of the soul all other feelings are crowded out.

Make a little room in your plans for romance again, Anne, girl. All the degrees and scholarships in the world can't make up for the lack of it. ~Aunt Josephine to Anne in Anne Of Green Gables