Quotes About Passion

Whatever is done for love always occurs beyond good and evil.

In revenge and in love woman is more barbaric than man is.

To get up in the morning, in the fullness of youth, and open a book--now that's what I call vicious!

Something unappeased, unappeasable, is within me.

Was aus Liebe getan wird, geschieht immer jenseits von Gut und Böse. (What is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil.)

Fanatics are picturesque, mankind would rather see gestures than listen to reasons.

I tell you: one must still have chaos in oneself to give birth to a dancing star. I tell you: you still have chaos in yourselves.

Without music, life would be a mistake.. I would only believe in a God who knew how to dance.

None of the people have any real interest in a science, who only begin to be enthusiastic about it when they themselves have made discoveries in it.

The misunderstanding of passion and reason, as if the latter were an independent entity and not rather a system of relations between various passions and desires; and as if every passion did not possess its quantum of reason

That is an artist as I love artists, modest in his needs: he really wants only two things, his bread and his art - panem et Circen.

love as a passion—it is our European specialty—must absolutely be of noble origin; as is well known, its invention is due to the Provencal poet-cavaliers, those brilliant, ingenious men of the gai saber, to whom Europe owes so much, and almost owes itself.

Write with blood, and you will find that blood is spirit.

We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving.

Flight from boredom is the mother of all art.

It is the richness of a personality, the fullness of it, its power to flow over and to bestow, its instinctive feeling of ease, and its affirmative attitude towards itself, that creates great love and great sacrifices: these passions proceed from strong and godlike personalism as surely as do the desire to be master, to obtrude, and the inner certainty that one has a right to everything.

The best author will be the one who is ashamed to become a writer.

You have always wanted to caress every monster.

Man muß noch Kaos in sich haben um einen tanzenden Stern gebären zu können

Of all that is written, I love only what a person hath written with his blood. Write with blood, and thou wilt find that blood is spirit. It is no easy task to understand unfamiliar blood; I hate the reading idlers. He who knoweth the reader, doeth nothing more for the reader. Another century of readers—and spirit itself will stink.

What makes life 'worth living'? - The awareness that there is something for which one is ready to risk one's life

Il cristianesimo dette da bere il veleno a Eros. Questi non ne morì, ma ben degenerò, in vizio.

In woman's love there is injustice and blindness to all she does not love. And even in woman's conscious love, there is still always attack and lightning and night, along with the light.

Most books are born from the smoke and vapour of the brain: and to vapour and smoke may they well return. For having no fire within themselves, they shall be visited with fire.