Quotes About Passion

Love what you will never believe twice.

The pleasure of talking is the inextinguishable passion of a woman, coeval with the act of breathing.

I felt condemned to obscurity and to celibacy. But when one is driven by passion, one can live on almost nothing, and I was driven by passion for writing. One does not starve in modern, Western societies, and one can do without such amenities as the telephone, a car, entertainment.

I'm most at home on the stage. I was carried onstage for the first time when I was six months old.

I gotta keep busy. I'm not happy unless I'm working on two, three things.

I knew I wanted to act from when I was five, and I started studying seriously when I was six and seven. Not with anybody else, but I used to watch the world as if it was a performance and I would realize that certain things that people did moved me, and certain things didn't move me, and I tried to analyze, even at that age, six and seven and eight, why I was moved by certain things they did.

I'm an actor. My life as an actor depends on who sends me what. I'm just taking the best stuff that I can find that's sent my way, regardless of how big or little the paycheck is. I don't want to work for scale anymore. I'm at a point now where, no matter how good something is, I'm not going to kill myself and end up in the hole.

I played guitar. I've always considered myself an actor, but I wasn't making a living as an actor. So I was in a couple of folk groups that managed to keep me in underwear and burritos.

Write what you care about, write what moves you, what intrigues you and you find compelling, write what angers you and makes you sad.

Some day I'll find out what I want to do when I grow up.

she felt about reading what some writers felt about writing: that it was impossible not to do it and that at this late stage of her life she had been chosen to read as others were chosen to write.

Truly creative people care little about what they have done, and a lot about what they are doing.

Work may be your dominant thought, and joy an afterthought. But joy is your true purpose, and work the afterthought.

To have a grievance is to have a purpose in life.

Our own internal conflicts prevent us from gaining the emotional clarity needed to maintain a safe and satisfying bond. The situation compounds when two men, both overwhelmed with shame, come together in an intense and explosive expression of passion.

Passion is a meta-emotion — an emotion that is felt only after observing other emotions over time.

What's happiness really all about? How will I find lasting love and contentment? Can I find it in a relationship with a man? Is there such a thing as a healthy relationship between two men? How can I find real purpose and passion in my life?

Whether they loved each other or not, they were lovers. And he was damned if he'd see her sucked into this brutal business.

It's not a job but a condition. (Alan Garner on writing)

How do you explain to someone else why a thing matters to you if it doesn't matter to them? How can you put into words how a book slips inside of you and becomes a part of you so much that your life feels empty without it?

It's not who you're fighting against that matters. It's what you're fighting for.

Pasoon," Reshmina said, "what if there was another way? What if—" But when she looked up, Pasoon was gone.

The pursuit of love seemed to need the cultivation of indifference.

For it is only habit and memory that dulls the physical passion. Without memory, each night is the first night, each morning is the first morning, each kiss and touch are the first.