Quotes About Passion

During one of these arguments, Diego picked up one of his paintings of the Mexican desert and shouted, I don't want to go back to that! He had spent fifteen years in Paris and the life of an expatriate suited him. It was easier to be a passionate Mexican nationalist when he wasn't living there

He was going on four years of longing, of wanting to touch her, taste her, simply be near her.

Fuck me sideways. I love you." My hands stilled before I pushed him off. "Uh. Thanks.

Holy shit whistles there are real live werewolves, my boyfriend is one of them, and my reaction to all this was to pull my pants down and get pounded? And that's when he wants to tell me he loves me?

I'm a sucker for a guy with a big organ.

If you want to be a garbage man, be a garbage man, but be the best garbage man you can be. (p. 8)

If I create from the heart, nearly everything works; if from the head, almost nothing.

I have always painted pictures where human love floods my colors.

Only love interests me, and I am only in contact with things I love.

I'm ready for my companion to have her way with me, to give her what she wants.

Rares sont ceux qui ont assez de folie pour entreprendre de réaliser leurs rêves

Und ehe ich mich's versah, da war's um mich geschehen. Ich war glücklich - wohl zum ersten Mal in meinem Leben. Ein extremes, ein unheimliches Gefühl hatte mich befallen und überwältigt. Ich war verliebt. Halb zog sie mich, halb sank ich hin - ich war verliebt in sie, die Literatur.

Über Bertolt Brecht) aber letztlich war er doch kein Lehrer und kein Volkserzieher. Er war ein leidenschaftlicher Verführer. Möglichst alle wollte er verführen: Frauen und Männer, Junge und Alte, Künstler und Politiker. Und nirgends schienen ihm die Menschen so verführbar wie im Zuschauerraum des Theaters.

Todas las novelas son historias de amor. Voy a sonar cursi, pero es lo que pienso: podemos prescindir de todo, menos del amor.

Every man is worth just so much as the things about which he busies himself.

Give your heart to the trade you have learnt, and draw refreshment from it.

our own worth is measured by what we devote our energy to.

every man is worth   just so much as the things are worth about which he busies himself. 

A man without ever the least appearance of anger, or any other passion; able at the same time most exactly to observe the Stoic Apathia, or unpassionateness, and yet to be most tender-hearted: ever of good credit; and yet almost without any noise, or rumour: very learned, and yet making little show.

To be free of passion and yet full of love.

Run down the list of those who felt intense anger at something: the most famous, the most unfortunate, the most hated, the most whatever: Where is all that now? Smoke, dust, legend…or not even a legend. Think of all the examples. And how trivial the things we want so passionately are.

You don't love yourself enough. Or you'd love your nature too, and what it demands of you. People who love what they do wear themselves down doing it, they even forget to wash or eat.

Not to display anger or other emotions. To be free of passion and yet full of love. To praise without bombast; to display expertise without pretension.

An angry countenance is much against nature, and it is oftentimes the proper countenance of them that are at the point of death. But were it so, that all anger and passion were so thoroughly quenched in thee, that it were altogether impossible to kindle it any more, yet herein must not thou rest satisfied, but further endeavour by good consequence of true ratiocination, perfectly to conceive and understand, that all anger and passion is against reason.