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Quotes About Passion

Io ho desiderato, fino alla disperazione, di poter essere tutto per lei, fino al giorno in cui ho appreso, nel dolore, che è infinitamente più nobile non essere, per lei, assolutamente niente.
~ Soren Aabye Kiyerkegards
It's better to get lost in the passion than to lose the passion
~ Soren Kierkegaard
It is perhaps the misfortune of my life that I am interested in far too much but not decisively in any one thing; all my interests are not subordinated in one but stand on an equal footing.
~ Soren Kierkegaard
One must not think slightingly of the paradoxical…for the paradox is the source of the thinker's passion, and the thinker without a paradox is like a lover without feeling: a paltry mediocrity.
~ Soren Kierkegaard
In my great melancholy, I loved life, for I love my melancholy.
~ Soren Kierkegaard
What distinguishes all love from lust is the fact that it bears an impress of eternity.
~ Soren Kierkegaard
Now she has power and passion and the struggle has significance for me-let the momentary consequences be what they may. Suppose that in her pride she becomes giddy, suppose that she does break with me-all right! -she has her freedom, but she will still belong to me. That the engagement should bind her is silly-I want to possess her only in her freedom
~ Soren Kierkegaard
But one must not think ill of the paradox, for the paradox is the passion of thought, and the thinker without the paradox is like the lover without passion: a mediocre fellow.
~ Soren Kierkegaard
The less support an idea has,the more fervently it must be believed in, so that a totally preposterous idea requires unflinching faith.
~ Soren Kierkegaard
That in which all human life is unified is passion, and faith is a passion.
~ Soren Kierkegaard
The lyrical author is only concerned with his production, enjoys the pleasure of producing, often perhaps only after pain and effort; but he has nothing to do with others, he does not write in order that: in order to enlighten men or in order to help them along the right road, in order to bring about something; in short he does not write in order that.
~ Soren Kierkegaard
Only by investing and speaking your vision with passion can the truth, one way or the other, finally penetrate the reluctance of the world.
~ Soren Kierkegaard
Passion excites, earthly wisdom cools, but neither this heat nor this coolness, nor the blending of the heat and coolness is the pure air of the eternal. There is in this heat something ardent, and in this coolness something sharp, and in the blending of the two something indefinite, or an unconscious deceitfulness, as in the hazardous season of spring. But this 'thou shalt love' takes away all the unsoundness and preserves the soundness of eternity.
~ Soren Kierkegaard
Det gäller att finna en sanning, som är sanning för mig, att finna en idé för vilken jag vill leva och dö.
~ Soren Kierkegaard
I adore you, my greatest love, as only through you I can find my moment's eternity.
~ Sorin Cerin
I certainly never wanted to be a photographer to bore myself. It's no fun - life is too short.
~ Garry Winogrand
Whatever inspires you fires you.
~ Geoff Thompson
I'm reading Barnaby Rudge, one of the less well-known Dickens novels. I've been a life-long lover of Charles Dickens ever since I think A Tale of Two Cities was the first Dickens novel I read.
~ George Brandis
The vital straining towards an ideal, definite but latent, when it dominates a whole life, may express that ideal more fully than could the best chosen words.
~ George Santayana
If you at least try to do the things that excite you, it will make you a more expansive and present person - you'll feel, at the end of your life, that at least you took the shot.
~ George Saunders
Eroticism, it may be said, is assenting to life up to the point of death
~ Georges Bataille
I knew that I always wanted to keep making music, but I knew that comics needed to be a part of my life.
~ Gerard Way
When a person has found something which he prefers to life itself, he for the first time has begun to live.
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
I've been dedicating my life to doing remixes and sample based music. Whether you're into it or not I'm going to continue to pump it out.
~ Girl Talk