Quotes About Passion

So now, even if I wanted to, I could not become a moderate person. Still, I love life and do not want my high-spirited personality to kill me, as it almost did in my youth. This is one reason that motivated me to discover

One person with belief is worth a thousand people with only an interest.

By my physical constitution I am but an ordinary man…. Yet some great events, some cutting expressions, some mean hypocrisies, have at times thrown this assemblage of sloth, sleep, and littleness into rage like a lion.

Public virtue cannot exist in a nation without private, and public virtue is the only foundation of republics. There must be a positive passion for the public good, the public interest, honor, power and glory, established in the minds of the people, or there can be no republican government, nor any real liberty: and this public passion must be superior to all private passions

The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity. –WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS

So this is what love is. It's like bein' tied to a big, mad train.

This is. The apotheosis. Of how she makes me feel.

Ye youths and virgins, when your generous blood Has drunk the warmth of fifteen summers, now The loves invite; now to new rapture wakes The finish'd sense: while stung with keen desire The madd'ning boy his bashful fetters bursts; And, urg'd with secret flames, the riper maid, Conscious and shy, betrays her smarting breast.

I am often asked why I write, and I don't know really--I just want to.

I am often asked why I write, and I don't know really—I just like it." —John Ashbery

Sex: the thing that takes up the least amount of time and causes the most amount of trouble.

In art as in lovemaking, heartfelt ineptitude has its appeal and so does heartless skill, but what you want is passionate virtuosity.

While he agonized in the Garden of Gethsemane on the eve of his Passion, he resisted the devil's onslaught with the prayer to his Father: "Yet not as I will, but as you will" (Matthew 26:39). Christ is the Lord, and humility is his scepter.

To be desired is perhaps the closest anybody can reach in this life to feeling immortal.

The urge to destroy is also a creative urge. It is worth comparing this famous text of Bakunin's with one of Picasso's most famous remarks about his own art. 'A painting', he said, 'is a sum of destructions.

Here and in the European tradition generally, the convention of not painting the hair on a woman's body helps towards the same end. Hair is associated with sexual power, with passion. The woman's sexual passion needs to be minimized so that the spectator may feel that he has the monopoly of such passion.)

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When in love, the sight of the beloved has a completeness which no words and no embrace can match: a completeness which only the act of making love can temporarily accommodate

The best lack all conviction while the worst are full passionate intensity

she was going to need to stay frosty until she could reach into his fucking chest and rip his heart out herself just to make sure the fucker was really dead.

version, though it fell somewhat short of the mood of, say, the last scene of "Die Meistersinger,

The greatest tragedy in life is not to die, but to live a life without purpose or meaning.

It is not strength, but desire, that governs the world.

I believe that all wisdom consists in caring immensely for a few right things, and not caring a straw about the rest.