Quotes About Passion

It was love at first sight.

And anything worth dying for," answered the sacrilegious old man, "is certainly worth living for.

Love is an emotional attachment. Unless you love your work or profession, you cannot be a true success. Love always magnifies and multiplies.

I learned from the recklessness of my youthful relationships that unbridled passion is destructive and brings neither happiness nor satisfaction. On the contrary, it brings suffering to all concerned. I also learned that the feelings that lead to such relationships have nothing whatever to do with love. Selfishness is never love.

The passion that transforms life, and art, did not seem to be mine. But in all essentials, my life was a good performance.

Music is what I always turn to when I'm feeling a certain way. It's my reason for everything.

Music laps at the shores of the intellect; only those with no firm ground under their feet can live for music. — Karl Kraus

Hank Nearly was an avid reader. He arrived early in his brown corduroy coat, with a book taken from the library, copied all the pages on the Xerox machine, and sat at his desk reading what looked passebly like the honest pages of business. He's make it through a three-hundred-page novel every two or three days.

I close. We are not we must not be aliens or enemies but fellow countrymen and brethren. Although passion has strained our bonds of affection too hardly they must not I am sure they will not be broken. The mystic chords of memory which proceeding from so many battle fields and so many patriot graves pass through all the hearts and all the hearths in this broad continent of ours will yet again harmonize in their ancient music when breathed upon by the guardian angel of the nation.   Lincoln

We are our own sculptors...Who can deny that passion and unkind thoughts show on the lines and expressions of our faces...young people seldom have these vices until they start getting old, so I love to be with them.

Love of ruins for an architect, he claimed, was quite natural, at least after a long career.

You either have to write or you shouldn't be writing. That's all.

It is the most fun I'm ever going to have. I love to write. I love it. I mean, there's nothing in the world I like better, and that includes sex, probably because I'm so very bad at it. It's the greatest peace when I'm in a scene, and it's just me and the character, that's it, that's where I want to live my life.

You're not friends. You'll never be friends. You'll be in love 'til it kills you both. You'll fight, and you'll shag, and you'll hate each other until it makes you quiver, but you'll never be friends. Love isn't brains, children, it's blood -- blood screaming inside you to work its will. I may be love's bitch, but at least I'm man enough to admit it.

I am not made of steel. Rage. I...am made... of RAGE!!!!

Writing is the greatest thing that can happen to a human being. It's the best.

Anything can be good. Even Last Action Hero could've been good. There's an idea somewhere in almost any movie : if you can find something that you love, then you can do it. If you can't, it doesn't matter how skilful you are...

Angel, when I look into the future, all I see is you! All I want is you. I know the feeling.

Because obsession is the thing in us that makes us not everybody else.

I myself have never enjoyed anything more than writing. I love to live in that world.

Passion is the source of our finest moments… If we could live without passion, maybe we'd know some kind of peace… but we would be hollow… Empty rooms shuttered and dank. Without passion we'd be truly dead.

You're not friends. You'll never be friends. Love isn't brains, children, it's blood. Blood screaming inside you to work its will. I may be love's bitch, but at least I'm man enough to admit it. ~Spike~

Love commingled with hate is more powerful than love. Or hate.

Writing! The activity for which the only adequate bribe is the possibility of suicide, one day.