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Quotes About Passion

Painting is with me but another word for feeling.
~ John Constable
The love of God should electrify us, push us to hunger, and stir a fiery passion in our bones that cannot be quenched. Consistent lack of emotion in our spiritual walk can often be defined in one simple word: complacency.
~ John Crowder
What is God drunk on? Your love.
~ John Crowder
First she wanted to taste the sweat that shone on his throat and fragile clavicle; then he chose to undo the tails of her shirt, that she had tied up beneath her breasts; then, but then impatient they forgot about taking turns and quarreled silently, eagerly over each other, like pirates dividing treasure long sought, long imagined, long withheld. In
~ John Crowley
Yet for all he knew the terrible griefs, great sufferings, accidents and windfalls it told of were all true to life—what did he know about life, about people? Maybe most people were as wilful, as overmastered by ambition, blood, lust, money, passion as the TV showed them.
~ John Crowley
Acting can be pretty challenging. I can't say making a romantic comedy is challenging, but to do anything well, you have to put yourself into it.
~ John Cusack
A world without love is a world governed by rigid contracts and inexorable duties, a world in which – God forbid! – the lawyers run everything. The mark of really loving someone or something is unconditionality and excess, engagement and commitment, fire and passion.
~ John D. Caputo
I would rather hire a man with enthusiasm, than a man who knows everything.
~ John D. Rockefeller
Vincent. "How can I
~ John Dalton
Love is why I came here in the first place.
~ John Denver
I think love and beauty are what life is all about.
~ John Derek
Hunger not to have, but to be
~ John Dewey
To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.
~ John Dewey
Busy old fool, unruly Sun,Why dost thou thus,Through windows, and through curtains call on us?Must to thy motions lovers' seasons run?
~ John Donne
I am two fools, I know,For loving, and for saying soIn whining poetry.
~ John Donne
Art is the most passionate orgy within man's grasp.
~ John Donne
Who ever loves, if he do not proposeThe right true end of love, he's one that goesTo sea for nothing but to make him sick.
~ John Donne
Duplicated: Love was as subtly caught, as a disease; ... (Repeated twice)
~ John Donne
Filled with her love, may I be rather grown Mad with much heart, then idiot with none.
~ John Donne
That our affections kill us not, nor dye.
~ John Donne
But, O alas! so long, so far, Our bodies why do we forbear?
~ John Donne
lovers' hours be full eternity
~ John Donne
gustatory avidity.
~ John Donohue
What passion cannot Music raise and quell?
~ John Dryden