Quotes About Passion

He disliked emotion, not because he felt lightly, but because he felt deeply.

I get into a tearing passion about something I know very little about, and when I learn more my passion ebbs away.

I don't want enlightenment, I want him. Sorry Buddha, I loved him more than you.

That's the wonderful thing with nerds: they're enthusiasts. Not having a life means you get to love things with a passion and nobody bothers you about it.

Denn das ist ja das Wunderbare an Eigenbrötlern: Sie sind Enthusiasten. Wer selbst kein Leben hat, kann irgendwas leidenschaftlich lieben, und kein Mensch macht einem deshalb Vorhaltungen.

Love sharpens the eye, the ear, the touch; it quickens the feet, it steadies the hand, it arms against the wet and the cold. What we love to do, that we do well. To know is not all; it is only half. To love is the other half

The cleverest writers give the someone we like not one but two things he wants VERY BADLY, and then puts them at odds with each other. I love Romeo but hate his Montague family. I love the Shire but want to travel like Uncle Bilbo and see elves and dragons. I love Lois Lane but I have to act like a mild mannered dweeb to hide my powerful secret lest my effectiveness as a crimefighter be compromised, so the girl I have a crush on has a crush on my alter ego and won't give me a date.

The stubbornness of an idealist; and the soul of a street fighter

Sex is like air; it's not important unless you aren't getting any.

One such club activity was a dance that was held after the regular service in an adjacent hall. Qutb describes the seductive atmosphere of the occasion: "The dance hall was illuminated with red, blue and a few white lights. It convulsed to the tunes of the gramophone and was full of bounding feet and seductive legs. Arms circled waists, lips met lips, chests met chests, and the atmosphere was full of passion.

When somebody who makes movies for a living - either as an actor, writer, producer or director - lives to be a certain age, you have to admire them. It is an act of courage to make a film - a courage for which you are not prepared in the rest of life. It is very hard and very destructive. But we do it because we love it.

No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you're keeping the man-child alive.

For lovers, touch is metamorphosis. All the parts of their bodies seem to change, and they seem to become something different and better.

All literary men are Red Sox fans - to be a Yankee fan in a literate society is to endanger your life.

To write well, to write passionately, to be less inhibited, to be warmer, to be more self-critical, to recognize the power of as well as the force of lust, to write, to love.

My illness was love, though I knew not the smart, But the beauty of love was the blood of my heart.

He was the universe to me, and all that was not him, was nothing to me.

Não!, nem o passar dos anos, nem as voltas do destino poderiam apagar a impressão fulminante que ele causou em mim... Sim! querido objeto de minha primeira paixão, guardarei para sempre a lembrança de tua primeira aparição diante de meus olhos embevecidos... ela te traz de volta ao presente, e eu te vejo diante de mim!

O amor, presidindo a ação, insinuava o prazer e o gozo. E confesso, de bom grado, que me persuadi sem dificuldade de que, sem amor, o prazer, por maior e mais perfeito que seja, fica vulgar, sejamos rei ou vagabundo.

her lips were as red as a stop light..

Some words can only be spoken to those for whom we feel passionately and deeply, just as some silences can only be shared by lovers.

Deseó amar a alguien hasta el punto de que le doliera.

There's a difference between living and just surviving. Do something you love, and find someone to love who loves that you love what you do. It is really that simple. And that hard.

Landscape is my mistress - t'is to her that I look for fame - and all that the warmth of the imagination renders dear to man