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Quotes About Passion

How can there be love without a true choice? Would you suggest that man be stripped of the capacity to love?" This was the Great Romance. To love at any cost.
~ Ted Dekker
Sylous leaned in close and placed his lips against hers. Tender and warm, his kiss buzzed inside her mouth. He held her there, caught up in a perfect moment, and when he released her, a new resolve had flooded her chest.
~ Ted Dekker
The only thing people regret is that they didn't live boldy enough, that they didn't invest enough heart, didn't love enough. Nothing else really counts at all.
~ Ted Hughes
But red Was what you wrapped around you. Blood red.
~ Ted Hughes
There is no correct way to write a novel, or rather, there is only one, and that one way is to make it interesting. That is very easily said, but how do you make your writing interesting? The answer to the question is, that you write interestingly only about the things that genuinely interest you. This is an infallible rule.
~ Ted Hughes
That night was nothing but getting to know how smooth your body is. The memory of it goes through me like brandy.
~ Ted Hughes
And like a cat in winter at a fire She could not edge close enough To what singed her, and would burn her.
~ Ted Hughes
La única religión aceptable para el hombre es la que le enseñará ante todo, a conocer, amar y servir apasionadamente al Universo del cual es el elemento más importante.
~ Teilhard de Chardin
Boys who cry can work for Google. Boys who trash computers cannot. I once was at a science conference, and I saw a NASA scientist who had just found out that his project was canceled—a project he'd worked on for years. He was maybe sixty-five years old, and you know what? He was crying. And I thought, Good for him. That's why he was able to reach retirement age working in a job he loved.
~ Temple Grandin
But there are things that happen between a man and a woman in the dark -- that sort of make everything else seem -- unimportant.
~ Tenessee Williams
Oh, you can't describe someone you're in love with!
~ Tennessee Williams
In all these years, you never believed I loved you. And I did. I did so much. I did love you. I even loved your hate and your hardness.
~ Tennessee Williams
He was a boy, just a boy, when I was a very young girl. When I was sixteen, I made the discovery - love. All at once and much, much too completely. It was like you suddenly turned a blinding on something that had always been half in shadow, that's how it struck the world for me. But I was unlucky. Deluded.
~ Tennessee Williams
Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.
~ Tennessee Williams
I cannot write any sort of story unless there is at least one character in it for whom I have physical desire.
~ Tennessee Williams
When I was sixteen, I made the discovery -- love. All at once and much, much too completely. It was like you suddenly turned a blinding light on something that had always been half in shadow, that's how it struck the world for me.
~ Tennessee Williams
When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I'm only really alive when I'm writing.
~ Tennessee Williams
There is only one true aristocracy . . . and that is the aristocracy of passionate souls!
~ Tennessee Williams
Stella: And when he comes back I cry on his lap like a baby.. [she smiles to herself] Blanche: I guess that is what is meant by being in love..
~ Tennessee Williams
No, truth is something desperate, an' she's got it. Believe me, it's something desperate, an' she's got it.
~ Tennessee Williams
love, all at once and much, much too completely. It's like you suddenly turn a blinding light on something that had always been half a shadow...
~ Tennessee Williams
Man is by instinct a lover, a hunter, a fighter.
~ Tennessee Williams
Distant singing is heard. Ghostly voices become audible: fragments of lectures remembered, the finely distilled wisdom and passion of seers and poets with which the modern young mind is tempered for the world that blows it to pieces.
~ Tennessee Williams
I'm starting to boil inside. I know I seem dreamy, but inside-well, I'm boiling! Whenever I pick up a shoe, I shudder a little thinking how short life is and what I am doing!
~ Tennessee Williams