Quotes About Passion

The truth we do not always pursue; but when we do so passionately, violently, we hate whatever is expression, whatever derives from words and forms, all the noble lies, even further from the truth than the vulgar ones.

What dates most is rebellion - that is, the most vital of our reactions.

The worst crimes are committed out of enthusiasm, a morbid state responsible for almost all public and private disasters.

A runner must run with dreams in his heart, not money in his pocket.

I am here to live out loud.

Jealousy - that jumble of secret worship and ostensible aversion.

I am little concerned with beauty or perfection. I don't care for the great centuries. All I care about is life, struggle, intensity.

Je n'ai guère de souci de beauté ni de perfection... Je n'ai souci que de vie, de lutte, de fièvre.

If you ask me what I came to do in this world, I, an artist, will answer you: I am here to live out loud.

I would rather die of passion than of boredom.

The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.

If you ask me what I came into this life to do, I will tell you: I came to live out loud.

I have but one passion: to enlighten those who have been kept in the dark, in the name of humanity which has suffered so much and is entitled to happiness. My fiery protest is simply the cry of my very soul.

She was cold by nature, self-love predominating over passion; rather than being virtuous, she preferred to have her pleasures all to herself.

I així, sense voler-ho, el seu excés d'amor em va encomanar un rebuig per qualsevol sentiment i fins i tot una por als acostaments emotius i vibrants cap a una altra persona. Vaig aprendre una lliçó per fugir de tot compromís sentimental: a més estimació, més perills de tota mena. No t'acostis i no et cremaràs. L'amor crema. L'amor consumeix. L'amor mata.

Without thinking, he tugged her closer. When she

Qué crimen o qué dolor es un beso cuando es sólo un beso!

Te amo, Sandokan; te amo como nunca mujer alguna amó sobre la tierra! Sandokan la acarició dulcemente y sus labios besaron los dorados cabellos y la nívea frente de la joven. -¡Ay de quien te toque ahora, que ya eres mía!

Era uno splendido tipo di bornese, sulla cinquantina, dal viso assai abbronzato, con due occhi nerissimi e ancora pieni di fuoco. La sua barba e i suoi capelli, che portava lunghi, erano appena brizzolati.

Cavaliere, - mormorò. - T'amo ancora! - Il Corsaro aveva mandato un grido di gioia suprema e si era stretta al cuore la giovane donna.

Cavaliere, - mormorò. - T'amo ancora! - Il Corsaro aveva mandato un grido di gioia suprema e si era stretta al cuore la giovane donna. [...] Ed essi forse ignorano quanto io ti ho amata e quanto io ti ho pianta. Honorata, dopo quella notte fatale che ti abbandonai sola, in mezzo alla tempesta, affidandoti alla misericordia di Dio!...

Nelly, I am Heathcliff - he's always, always in my mind - not as a pleasure, any more then I am always a pleasure to myself - but, as my own being.

To love is so startling it leaves little time for anything else.

If he loved with all the powers of his puny being, he couldn't love as much in eighty years as I could in a day.