Quotes About Passion

The emphasis is not on what you are doing but on why you are doing it.

It's when we combine knowledge not only with passion, but with love, that we can have a great effect on others.

The more passionate the defensive response, the more deeply self-worth has been threatened.

the average life span of a romantic obsession is two years.

Falling in love is not real because it is effortless. Whatever we do in the in-love state requires little discipline or conscious effort on our part.

The shock waves would rumble through business, industry, church, education, and the rest of society. Why? Because people who are "in love" lose interest in other pursuits. That is why we call it "obsession." The college student who falls head over heels in love sees his grades tumbling. It is difficult to study when you are in love.

It's hard to believe anything else when you are in love.

Books can ignite fires in your mind, because they carry ideas for kindling, and art for matches.

You know how teachers are. If they get you to take out a book they love too, they're yours for life.

Hawthorne finally found his life's calling. "I do not want to be a doctor and live by men's diseases; nor a minister to live by their sins; nor a lawyer and live by their quarrels," he wrote passionately to his mother. "So I don't see that there is anything left for me but to be an author.

I desire you, it's as simple and awful as that.... it's idiotic, but I love you.

I want to be loved so badly, it verges on mild insanity.

I am born hungry. Ravenous. I want to eat the world, and I can never be satiated.

The love I felt for her on that train ride had a capital and provinces, parishes and a Vatican, an orange planet and many sullen moons—it was systemic and it was complete.

But what kind of profession is this, writer?" my mother would ask. "You want to be this?" I want to be this.

Actor to Senderovsky: What awes you about the work you do? How does it humble you?

Senderovsky to Ed: When I stopped falling in love. My art died.

Nobody knows that in reading we are re-living our temptations to be a poet. All readers who have a certain passion for reading, nurture and repress, through reading, the desire to become a writer.

All readers who have a certain passion for reading, nurture and repress, through reading, the desire to become a writer.

Nobody knows that in reading we are re-living our temptations to be a poet. All readers who have a certain passion for reading, nurture and repress, through reading, the desire to become a writer...In this admiration, which goes beyond the passivity of contemplative attitudes, the joy of reading appears to be the reflection of the joy of writing, as though the reader were the writer's ghost.

En cuanto a nosotros, aficionados a la lectura feliz, no leemos ni releemos más que lo que nos gusta, con un pequeño orgullo de lector mezclado con mucho entusiasmo.

Le feu. Il est l'ultra-vivant. Il est intime et universel. Il vit dans notre cœur. Dans le ciel. Il monte des profondeurs de la substance et s'offre comme un amour.

the passionate being prepares his explosions and his exploits in this solitude.

But we must lose our earthly Paradise in order actually to live in it, to experience it in the reality of its images, in the absolute sublimation that transcends all passion.