Quotes About Passion

All that is not the love of God has no meaning for me. I can truthfully say that I have no interest in anything but the

Words without poetry lack passion; words without passion lack persuasion; words without persuasion lack power.

Christ's anger is the storm-front of His love.

He had drive and hunger somewhere, like a phantom limb, agitating faintly away in his gut. He'd been an ambitious young man, he'd gotten drunk just looking at the constantly changing face of the churning, radiant world.

O that I were your lover for a month or two, he murmured, I would make that pretty heart's blood of yours ache in a fortnight.

I'll have mine [The Book-Lovers' Anthology] till the day I die - and die happy in the knowledge that I'm leaving it behind for someone else to love. I shall sprinkle pale pencil marks through it pointing out the best passages to some book-lover yet unborn.

And for at least that moment, I wouldn't have traded the hundreds of books I've read for the few I know almost by heart.

And they were going to end up in bed. It was just a matter of finding the right time and a half hour of privacy.

Throw some punches for what you believe in -

No será que hay sentimientos tan fuertes que, sencillamente, no pueden expresarse con palabras, sino que hay que cantarlos?

Write while the heat is in you. The writer who postpones the recording of his thoughts uses an iron which has cooled to burn a hole with. He cannot inflame the minds of his audience.

Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.

The heart is forever inexperienced.

Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

Enthusiasm is a supernatural serenity.

Love must be as much a light as it is a flame.

Some men fish all their lives without knowing it is not really the fish they are after.

There is no remedy for love but to love more. - Henry David Thoreau

I am convinced, both by faith and experience, that to maintain one's self on this earth is not a hardship but a passtime, if we live simply and wisely

Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.

The aim of the laborer should be, not to get his living, to get a good job, but to perform well a certain work; and, even in a pecuniary sense, it would be economy for a town to pay its laborers so well that they would not feel that they were working for low ends, as for a livelihood merely, but for scientific, or even moral ends. Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm.

De la literatura sólo nos atrae lo salvaje. El aburrimiento no es sino otro nombre para lo domesticado.

To have done anything just for money is to have been truly idle.