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Quotes About Passion

The Pekes and the Pollicles, everyone knows, Are proud and implacable, passionate foes; It is always the same, wherever one goes. And the Pugs and the Poms, although most people say that they do not like fighting, will often display Every symptom of wanting to join in the fray. And they Bark bark bark bark bark bark Until you can hear them all over the park.
~ T.S. Eliot
I would meet you upon this honestly. I that was near your heart was removed therefrom To lose beauty in terror, terror in inquisition. I have lost my passion: why should I need to keep it Since what is kept must be adulterated? I have lost my sight, smell, hearing, taste and touch: How should I use them for your closer contact?
~ T.S. Eliot
Playwriting gets into your blood and you can't stop it. At least not until the producers or the public tell you to.
~ T.S. Eliot
Who then devised the torment? Love.
~ T.S. Eliot
I have lost my passion: why should I need to keep it Since what is kept must be adulterated?
~ T.S. Eliot
Cognosco i segni dell antica fiamma
~ T.S. Eliot
I can't fucking believe you're saying this. You know better. Being a grownup is suicide to an artist.
~ Tabitha King
Sometimes I talk about baseball just to annoy people who don't understand it.
~ Tad Williams
Because love does not do sums, but instead make choices, and then gives its all.
~ Tad Williams
Love. Tired old jokes aside, a real, powerful love does have one thing in common with Hell itself: it burns everything else out of you.
~ Tad Williams
Perhaps a heart was indeed like a piece of dry birchwood, and could only take fire and burn brightly once—that any fire that came after would be only an ember, smaller and cooler.
~ Tad Williams
I try to write like a grown-up about things I fell in love with as a child.
~ Tad Williams
Fine art won't fill me up, y'know.
~ Taiyo Matsumoto
I love everything about you. Don't you ever think I don't. Even when you make me mad, I love you so much I can hardly stand it.
~ Tami Hoag
Curse him for being all tight muscle, with ivory skin and a mouth as soft as rose petals. Curse him for having hair as fair as the sun, and eyes as black as night. Curse him for having the grace of a cat and deft, cool hands. And now I am having the same argument on paper that I have in my own head on too many nights. I know my choice is sensible, but it isn't my common sense I think with, those times Rosto's stolen a kiss from me.
~ Tamora Pierce
She loved bats, but had learned years ago that few humans agreed.
~ Tamora Pierce
Whatever she was, he would love her until they died
~ Tamora Pierce
I did not say I knew swiving well what my spirit called for, and it was not a curst cage!
~ Tamora Pierce (Author)
Fleur de feu. Oh flower of fire. That fire is not hate or fear, which makes flowers come, not terror or anger or lust, it is love that is the fire of the Bite-Me-Not, love which cannot abandon, love which cannot harm. Love which never dies.
~ Tanith Lee
But what, demanded the jawbones, with sinister insistency, is love?
~ Tanith Lee
Oscar) Wilde is surely one of the most erotic writers who ever lived.
~ Tanith Lee
In the midst of passion, some previous passion still held some sway, it seemed.
~ Tanith Lee
The young man in blue who had become his showpiece, a theater for Leopardo's passions, an irresistible echoing move also set hand to hilt.
~ Tanith Lee
Barely dampered by virginity or unpractice, their bodies seemed to know each other as their souls had seemed to.
~ Tanith Lee