Quotes About Passion

Now I can see how that can happen. You can fall in love with anybody — a fool, a criminal, a nothing. There are no good rules.

Extreme emotions could be lethal. If I can't have you nobody will , and so forth. Death could set in.

As Saint Paul says, marry or burn.

But Jimmy, you should know. All sex is real.

The more it hurt, the more – he was convinced – he loved her.

My heart would hear her and beat, Were it earth in an earthy bed; My dust would hear her and beat, Had I lain for a century dead; Would start and tremble under her feet, And blossom in purple and red. —ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON, Maud, 1855.

I'M STARVED FOR YOU

Do you hunger for me, do you burn for me

I am in love with his need

He loved her so much when he made her unhappy, or else when she made him unhappy: at these moments he scarcely knew which was which.

Art was a kind of demonic possession. Art would dance you to death. It would move in and take you over, and then destroy you.

the young are idealistic, have an underdeveloped sense of their own mortality, and are afflicted with an exaggerated thirst for justice.

you occupy me so completely run through my brain as warm chemicals and melted gold, spread out wings to the ends of my fingers reach my heart and stop, digging your claws in

Jack quit his advertising job and devoted himself to the life of the pen. Or rather, to the life of the Remington, soon to be replaced with an IBM Selectric, with the bouncing ball that let you change the typeface. Now that was cool!

I would want someone I could love to madness, someone who was myself, only better, someone I could never get enough of looking at.

Poetry consoles me at the same time it inflames me, I said. 'You should know better,' he sniffed. 'It's poison for the soul!

I know now that to die without tasting this is truly not to have lived. In this, and this only, have we lived: to feel all, to dare all, to try all.

It's better to break one's heart than to do nothing with it.

Never depend upon institutions or government to solve any problem. All social movements are founded by, guided by, motivated and seen through by the passion of individuals.

Never ever depend on governments or institutions to solve any major problems. All social change comes from the passion of individuals.

Great balls of fire. Don't bother me anymore, and don't call me sugar.

She was darkness and he was darkness and there had never been anything before this time, only darkness and his lips upon her. She tried to speak and his mouth was over hers again. Suddenly she had a wild thrill such as she had never known; joy, fear, madness, excitement, surrender to arms that were too strong, lips too bruising, fate that moved too fast.

You should be kissed and by someone who knows how.

I only know that I love you. That's your misfortune.