Quotes About Passion

Se diría que habita en su persona la pasión por el conocimiento detallado y preciso.

I crave for mental exaltation.

People who are in earnest are always interesting, whether you agree with them or not, and it was impossible to doubt that these people were extremely earnest. The

there are women in whom the love of a lover extinguishes all other loves...

Passion can quickly slip over into jealousy, or even hatred.

And yet if I drew my thoughts back from him, what life would I have? I would be like a dancer who had practiced since childhood for a performance she would never give.

dreams can be such dangerous things: they smolder on like a fire does, and sometimes consume us completely.

Zato snovi mogu biti tako opasni:oni tinjaju poput prigušene vatre,a ponekad se vatra rasplamsa i potpuno nas proguta.

Por eso los sueños son tan peligrosos: abrasan como el fuego y a veces nos consumen completamente.

This is why dreams can be such dangerous things: they smolder on like a fire does, and sometimes consume us completely.

Sap?i var b?t b?stami, tie gruzd k? uguns un reiz?m piln?gi p?r?em m?s sav? var?.

There are even men who do little in their lives besides search for different caves to let their eels live in. A woman's cave is particularly special to a man if no other eel has ever been in it before.

Por eso los sueños son tan peligrosos: abrasan como el fuego y te consumen completamente

Los sueños son muy peligrosos: abrasan como el fuego y a veces nos consumen completamente.

My love was alive, not because I was loved, but because I myself loved!

Mijn liefde leefde, niet omdat ik WERD bemind, maaar omdat ik zelf liefhad!

Numbers are eternal while everything else is perishable; they are of the nature not of matter, but of mind; they permit mental operations of the most surprising and delightful kind without reference to the coarse external world of the senses-which is how the divine mind must be supposed to operate. The ecstatic contemplation of geometrical forms and mathematical laws is therefore the most effective means of purging the soul of earthly passion, and the principle link between man and divinity.

On the road I want to grab you sometimes and just kiss the life outa you

You specialize in something until one day you find it is specializing in you.

You write not for children but for yourself. And if by good fortune children enjoy what you enjoy, why then you are a writer of children's books.

No one writes anything worth writing, unless he writes entirely for the sake of his subject.

The ultimate aim of all love affairs ... is more important than all other aims in man's life; and therefore it is quite worthy of the profound seriousness with which everyone pursues it.

The best works of great men all come from the time when they had to write either for nothing or for very little pay. This is confirmed by the Spanish proverb: honra y provecho no caben en un saco (Honour and money are not to be found in the same purse).

Therefore if egoism has a firm hold of a man and masters him, whether it be in the form of joy, or triumph, or lust, or hope, or frantic grief, or annoyance, or anger, or fear, or suspicion, or passion of any kind—he is in the devil's clutches and how he got into them does not matter. What is needful is that he should make haste to get out of them; and here, again, it does not matter how.