Quotes About Passion

Your mouth was made to suck my kiss.

Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair, "said G.K. Chesterton.

Do you want to be an actor, or do you want to be a celebrity? I made that decision when I went to Juilliard. I wanted to be an actor. So, if I get the opportunity to be an actor and do some cool, fun and interesting projects, I'm going to do that.

No philosopher was ever apathetic. If there is no love, it is not philosophy.

He fell in love with himself at first sight, and it is a passion to which he has always remained faithful. Self-love seems so often unrequited.

ANDREW: You probably take it more seriously, that's all. MILO: You have to be serious if you want to be in love. ANDREW: You have to be serious about crime if you want to afford to be in love.

Looking back on his life he reflected, 'In my case it must have been a passionate urge to understanding that brought about my birth. For that is the strongest element in my nature' (MDR 297).

Reading his account leaves one with the impression that being taken out of oneself, forgetting oneself as an individual, as he puts it, invariably leads to a contemplative state from which all passion is absent. In fact, he describes the aesthetic attitude as an objective frame of mind, as if stepping into another world, 'where everything that moves our will, and thus violently agitates us, no longer exists'.20

What music expresses, is eternal, infinite and ideal; it does not express the passion, love, or longing of such-and-such an individual on such-and-such an occasion, but passion, love or longing in itself, and this it presents in that unlimited variety of motivations, which is the exclusive and particular characteristic of music, foreign and inexpressible to any other language.

Wagner's music has the power to plumb new depths and uncover passions never before consciously experienced

We can let it have its way, or we can direct it to our will; we can force it into new paths, or we can rehearse familiar works; we can listen to it, or we can relegate it to our subconscious; but we can never get rid of it. For one so endowed – or so burdened – to live is to live music.25

Book love... is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure that God has prepared for His creatures.

As iron is eaten away by rust, so the envious are consumed by their own passion.

Memory always obeys the commands of the heart.

Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.

Love is a scandal of the personal sort.

I would like to be a free artist and nothing else, and I regret God has not given me the strength to be one.

I feel more confident and more satisfied when I reflect that I have two professions and not one. Medicine is my lawful wife and literature is my mistress. When I get tired of one I spend the night with the other. Though it's disorderly it's not so dull, and besides, neither really loses anything through my infidelity.

He who desires nothing, hopes for nothing, and is afraid of nothing, cannot be an artist.

Quien no vive para algo, ha de vivir para alguien.

Looking without passion is always a good plan where history is concerned. But is it really possible with regard to the career and character of Marie Antoinette?

According to Seneca: 'Turning pale, shedding tears, the first stirrings of sexual arousal, a deep sigh, a suddenly sharpened glance, anything along these lines: whoever reckons them a clear token of passion and a sign of the mind's engagement is just mistaken and fails to understand that they're involuntary bodily movements.

Sometimes I don't even know if I'm extremely happy or extremely sad. It happens a lot when I think of you

In love, there is no criticism. In love, there is no rationality