Quotes About Passion

For Nietzsche, the very essence of man was neither his desire nor his reason, but his thymos: man was above all a valuing creature, the "beast with red cheeks" who found life in his ability to pronounce the words "good" and "evil.

The left continued to be defined by its passion for equality, but that agenda shifted from its earlier emphasis on the conditions of the working class to the often psychological demands of an ever-widening circle of marginalized groups.

BEAST WITH TWO BACKS. A man and woman in the act of copulation. Shakespeare in Othello.

The political motive in the academic breast is honest enough. It is fear---genuine, perpetual, heart-felt timorousness. All the Political Arguments are addressed to this passion. Have you ever noticed how people say, 'I'm afraid I don't ...' when they mean, 'I think I don't ...'?

There wasn't a shed of doubt in her mind that he'd fulfill her every sexual fantasy and them some. But was a brief, hot affair worth losing his friendship?

You do not chuse where You bestow your Heart. Your Heart bestows Itself, will-you-nill-you, in the Midst of other Business. —

Y desnuda, rotísima doncella, tan linda estás, estás tan rica y bella, que matas más de celos y de amores que vestida a colores: y eres así a la espada parecida: que matas más desnuda que vestida.

Quién los jueces con pasión, sin ser ungüento hace humanos, pues untándoles las manos les ablanda el corazón?

I will be dust, but dust in love

Polvo serán, mas polvo enamorado.

Siento haber de dejar deshabitado cuerpo que amante espíritu ha ceñido; desierto un corazón siempre encendido, donde todo el Amor reinó hospedado.

Yo ansí, náufrago amante y peregrino, que en borrasca de amor por Lisis muero, sigo insano furor de alto destino.

Give form to your vision. Disregard the fact that it appears to entail efforts. Express what you have inside and communicate it everywhere.

Expressing your talent of power means to do what you truly love and allowing it to become your work. In this way work does not involve any sacrifice, duty, effort or compromise. It becomes a sheer expression of your love, as everything you do and are. Whatever you need in life, including money and material goods, come to you abundantly as a response to this love.

We are interested in what we love. We love what we are interested in. What we are interested in also loves us and is interested in us. And the way this interest and love unveils is one of the major mysteries of life.

Jealousy is bred in doubts. When those doubts change into certainties, then the passion either ceases or turns absolute madness.

In jealousy there is more of self-love than love.

The pleasure of love is in loving; we are happier in the passion we feel than in the passion we inspire

Passion makes idiots of the cleverest men, and makes the biggest idiots clever.

The pleasure of love is in loving.

Change everything except your loves.

I have loved to the point of madness; that which is called madness, that which to me, is the only sensible way to love.

Today, I demand that a film express either the joy of making cinema or the agony of making cinema . I am not at all interested in anything in between; I am not interested in all those films that do not pulse.

It seems to me madness to wake up in the morning and do something other than paint, considering that one may not wake up the following morning.