Quotes About Passion

I'm a joker; that's my choice. It's my style. But I care about my life. I care about the game. I care about the people who gave me this opportunity.

Writing and telling jokes is my favorite thing to do, and I want to be able to do that forever.

All I ever wanted to do was tell jokes for a living.

Love is a dangerous angel.

Love sometimes makes people ruthless in a way that not even hatred can.

Passion - eventually it cools.

If I believed I could free myself, by dying, from amorous thoughts that bind me to the earth, I would already have laid these troubled limbs and their burden in the earth myself:

Sono posseduto da una passione inesauribile che finora non ho potuto né voluto frenare. Non riesco a saziarmi di libri.

Having indeed seen so many things and considered so much, I have finally begun to understand how many are these desires with which the human species burns. Lest you consider me immune to all the sins of men, there is one implacable passion that holds me which so far I have been neither able nor willing to check, for I flatter myself that the desire for noble things is not dishonorable. Do you wish to hear the nature of this disease? I am unable to satisfy my thirst for books.

A heart of fire in a shell of ice.

People see everything through the lens of their obsessions.

Love the Lord your God, and love one another. Love one another as He loves. Love with strength and purpose and passion and no matter what comes against you. Don't weaken. Stand against the darkness, and love. That's the way back into Eden. That's the way back to life.

Unless we have something worth dying for, Atretes, we've nothing worth living for.

The eye of the human understanding is not a naked organ of perception (lumen siccum), but an eye imbued with moisture by Will and Passion. Man always believes what he determines to believe.

poesy is the wine of demons...

Oh, love will make a dog howl in rhyme.

I don't think there's any artist of any value that does not doubt what they're doing.

I don't think there's any artist of any value who doesn't doubt what they're doing.

I'm no longer dependent on the movie business to make a living. So if I want to make movies as other old guys would play golf, I can.

Most Italians who came to this country are very patriotic. There was this exciting possibility that if you worked real hard, and you loved something, you could become successful.

I don't think there's any artist of any value who doesn't doubt what they're doing.

Anything built on a grand scale or with intense passion invites chaos.

Upon that second reading, much of the book fell away in my mind, revealing a story that was a metaphor for American capitalism in the tale of a great king with three sons: the oldest was given his passion and aggressiveness, the second his sweet nature and childlike qualities, and the third his intelligence, cunning, and coldness.

I loved it; I was living a dream.