Quotes About Passion

All the little emptiness of love!

So long as I can stay mentally alert - inquiring, curious - I want to keep going. I love my wife and my children, but I don't want to sit around at home with them. We go on safaris and things like that. I can do that for a couple of weeks a year. I'm just not ready to stop, to die.

Happiness is marvellous in real life, but it's a terrible handicap for an artist.

And I know that I would take one night with him, one hour, against everything that the world, or Hitler, can throw at me.

When we are young, we can put up with a great deal of discomfort in order to follow a dream. If, after thirty-five years, I'm still doing my own thing, it's because I haven't forgotten the dream. Let no man take your dream away. It will sustain you to the end.

The first condition of happiness is that a man must find joy in his work. Unless the work brings joy, the tedium of an aimless life can be soul-destroying. Something

Women in love can be more reckless than men!

The first condition of happiness is that a man must find joy in his work. Unless the work brings joy, the tedium of an aimless life can be soul-destroying.

The only thing I was fit for was to be a writer, and this notion rested solely on my suspicion that I would never be fit for real work, and that writing didn't require any.

One hates a person for the same reason one loves him 

My father said being an artist is the shortest road to the poor house , claiming "real" work is something you don't like. I ignored him through oppositional behavior, later reasoning that only an idiot sets out to find the poor house , not to mention devote himself to something he does not love. Instead, I discovered an interesting back road to the unknown , and deliberately without a safety net.

That's what keeps me alive, perversion and star quality.

Tennis is an addiction that once it has truly hooked a man will not let him go.

There are two kinds of photographers, the ones who take pictures for a magazine, and the ones who gain something by taking pictures they are interested in.

Only do shit you believe in!

writing isn't just a job that stops at six thirty... It's a mad, sexy, sad, scary, ruthless, joyful and utterly, utterly personal thing.

Collecting is highly involving passionate consumption rather than an uninvolving form of consumption like buying canned peas (unless of course one is a collector of canned peas in which case such a purchase for the collection may matter a great deal).

Obsessed is just a word the lazy use to describe the dedicated.

Some sample lyrics I think I catch: "My engine races up to seventh gear; wrap your legs around my engine, dear . . . . The tunnel's dark, but the ground is wet; I lubricate it with my dripping sweat!" Or, something vaguely disturbing and gross like that; it's hard to tell with the wailing guitars and the front man screaming through his ravaged vocal chords.

Lovemaking just might become one of her favorite pastimes, and she didn't think anything could be better than shopping.

The happiest excitement in life is to be convinced that one is fighting for all one is worth on behalf of some clearly seen and deeply felt good.

Books were my hobby, even as a child,' he told me. 'I read about every book in Milkwaukee Public Library before I was 15...Some of the books I didn't understand- but I read them just the same. I believed, you see, that my life work would be teaching, so I wanted to learning everything I could about every possible subject.

Ask me not where I live      or what I like to eat. . . .      Ask me what I am living for      and what I think is keeping me      from living fully for that. THOMAS MERTON, Thoughts in Solitude

Go ahead into life, full-blooded, courageous and leap for the adventure. But you must do it soon—before the summer of your youth has cooled off into caution. You are magnificently charming—and you come like a torrent. But you will be spent on the futility of little things. You are not a watercolor. You are carved out of life—and there can be no petty hesitancies about you.