Quotes About Passion

Justice is the loveliest and health is the best, but the sweetest to obtain is the heart's desire.

Man is his desire.

For he who lives as passion directs will not hear argument that dissuades him, nor understand it if he does; and how can we persuade one in such a state to change his ways?

There is only one driving force: The desire.

Because poets are by nature like us, those who are dominated by some passion seem most convincing; The outraged roar and angry are angry most truthfully.

There are four kinds of Tragedy, the Complex, depending entirely on Reversal of the Situation and Recognition; the Pathetic (where the motive is passion), — such as the tragedies on Ajax and Ixion; the Ethical (where the motives are ethical), — such as the Phthiotides and the Peleus.

Pretože básnici sú tej samej prirodzenosti ako my, najpresved?ivejÅ¡ie pôsobia tí, ktorých ovládajú nejaké váÅ¡ne; pobúrený buráca a rozhnevaný sa hnevá najpravdivejÅ¡ie.

Moreover, he who would place the supreme power in mind, would place it in God and the laws; but he who entrusts man with it, gives it to a wild beast, for such his appetites sometimes make him; for passion influences those who are in power, even the very best of men: for which reason law is reason without desire.

And I draw no distinction between young in years, and youthful in temper and disposition: the defect to which I allude being no direct result of the time, but of living at the beck and call of passion, and following each object as it rises. For to them that are such the knowledge comes to be unprofitable, as to those of imperfect self-control: but, to those who form their desires and act in accordance with reason, to have knowledge on these points must be very profitable.

It's time to get mad, Michael. Niceness doesn't count for shit!

Innocence is very erotic.

It is always the man who has tasted life who demands more of it.

In the majority of instances he [the typical man] does not precisely feel a passion for his business; at best he does not dislike it. He begins his business functions with some reluctance, as late as he can, and he ends them with joy, as early as he can. And his engines, while he is engaged in his business, are seldom at their full 'h.p.

There may be something of the amateur in all great artists.

If a man makes two-thirds of his existence subservient to one-third, for which admittedly he has no absolutely feverish zest, how can he hope to live fully and completely? He cannot.

France is the land where dalliance is so passionately understood.

A lot of photographers think that if they buy a better camera they'll be able to take better photographs. A better camera won't do a thing for you if you don't have anything in your head or in your heart.

I have a love interest in every one of my films - a gun.

Mogo?e je imela prav, mogo?e se mu je res gnusila. Ampak gnus ni razlog za lo?itev, gnus je obenem najvišja stopnja intimnosti. Kon?na to?ka intimnosti. V kar se intimnost neizogibno razvije. Doma?nost gnusa, njegova nespremenljivost, poželenje, ki jo izzove. Hrepenenje, da bi se ti drugi še zadnji? lahko zagnusil. In da bi se pri tem vedno malo gnusil tudi samemu sebi.

Humor was the enemy of desire.

And there still remained, for all men to share, the linked worlds of Love and Art. Linked, because love without art is merely the slaking of desire, and Art cannot be enjoyed unless it is approached with Love.

Suppose, in their altruistic passion for justice and order, they had determined to reform the world, but had not realized that they were destroying the soul of man?

Jan had always been a good pianist—and now he was the finest in the world.

It was good to be alive; it was better to be young; it was best of all to be in love.