Quotes About Passion

Teenagers. Everything is so apocalyptic.

A man needed fire in his veins to burn through the world, not ice to freeze everything in place.

We saw something was happening, my sister and I. We thought it was some kind of secret affair, his first time in love. In a way, it was. What else explains a person being turned inside out in the space of just a few weeks?

Who made love a heart without arteries and chambers—a castrated organ?

I don't want to lose her. I don't want to give up the blissful feelings I have whenever I am near her.

No matter how much it takes in, this hunger never goes away... Because it desires nothing else.

There was never a moment... when I forgot my hatred of you. It's almost like... a violent hatred that resembles love.

If a human life is devoted to something, one tends to lose oneself in it. As one loses oneself in it, the more blissful one becomes.

victory is something one experiences everyday, if he immerses himself in the joy of his craft, and in his sincere quest for learning it. Blood, sweat, and tears are fine. But rather than bleeding from wounds, is it not better to bleed from passion? Rather than sweating from a maniacal adherence to "hard work," is it not better to sweat from an innocent immersion in one's craft? Rather than tears of pain, is it not better to have tears of joy?

Rather than finding the thing that you can imagine yourself becoming, find the thing that you simply cannot imagine yourself Not Becoming.

man who pursues his passions and experiences his life with complete boldness has no need to search. He simply lives. He walks toward no horizon. For he has already seen beyond it. This, my friend, is the benediction. To abandon the world. And gain the universe.

if one has given the whole of himself to becoming a Master, he will do what is necessary to become it. And it will be a joy for him. It will be an intense journey. And peaceful the entire way. Hard work and practice are for those who try to become that which they secretly believe that it is difficult for them to become.

tango is art, not sex. Yes, it is art made with your body and someone else's. But not sex.

That year, I experienced a series of watershed tango events: my first tangasm, my first Tango Teacher Infatuation, and my first Tango Relationship.

I tell kids to pursue their basketball dreams, but I tell them to not let that be their only dream.

I didn't really seek attention. I just wanted to play the game well and go home.

This is what I would have done if I had to have a real job: I would have been a history teacher.

Let no one think that real gardening is a bucolic and meditative occupation. It is an insatiable passion, like everything else to which a man gives his heart.

He spent all of his twenty-three years operating at only one speed and in one direction, furious and forward, convinced that a collision could only improve the ride.

Idleness does drive me crazy, but I'd rather read or write than do anything just to work. A kind of respect has been instilled in me for acting: I love it too much to ever have a bad relationship with it.

I loved John Lennon. I read interviews, and whatever he said he liked, I would go and listen to them. That is what I want to do with my fans.

I think interviews are good when you are an actual fan of the person you are interviewing.

I've loved Basquiat since I was 13. From his artwork to his interviews to the way he thought about things, I've always been excited by him.

I never got into this business to do interviews. It was always about the music.