Quotes About Passion

I'm always excited about music, but having spent so much time in its pursuit - well, my musical life is complicated.

I still love playing the game, and it's amazing we can do this as a so-called 'job,' and it's amazing we can come to the rink every day and play the game we love.

My response to those asking how they can become a food writer is the same: first, become a writer.

If I have you for a day, I'll want you for a week. If I have you for a week, I'll want you for another week.

when the down on the nape of her neck

The Cycle of True Love: First I see and think I love, then I say I know I love, today and forever more I decide to love.

Before Venus, censorious; before Mars, timid.

Vieni con me, lettore! Chi ti ha detto che non esiste sulla terra un amore vero, fedele, eterno? Venga tagliata la ripugnante lingua al mentitore! Vieni con me, mio lettore, soltanto con me, e ti mostrerò questo amore!

L'amore ci aveva sorpreso inatteso e violento come un assassino che sbuchi fuori d'improvviso, e ci aveva pugnalato entrambi. Così colpisce il fulmine, così colpisce la lama finnica.

I enjoy books as misers enjoy treasures, because I know I can enjoy them whenever I please.

Our zeal works wonders, whenever it supports our inclination toward hatred, cruelty, ambition.

There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

There is no passion so much transports the sincerity of judgement as doth anger

I know not what quintessence of all this mixture, which, seizing my whole will, carried it to plunge and lose itself in his, and that having seized his whole will, brought it back with equal concurrence and appetite to plunge and lose itself in mine.

El amor no es más que el deseo furioso de algo que huye de nosotros...

The greatest and glorious masterpiece of a man is how to live with a purpose.

But we must not (as we do every day) give the name of duty to an inward bitter harshness born of self-interested passion, nor that of courage to malicious and treacherous dealings. What they call zeal is their propensity to wickedness and violence: it is not the cause which sets them ablaze but self-interest: they stoke up war not because it is just but because it is war.

ved sin bydende autoritet sløver og fordummer den all Platons samlede teologi og filosofi; likevel gir han ikke fra seg et kny. Overalt ellers kan man bevare en viss anstendighet; alle andre aktiviteter finner seg i sømmelighetsregler, men kjærlighetsakten kan man bare forestille seg som lastefull eller komisk. Bare prøv å finne en klok og behersket måte å bedrive den på.

Kjærligheten er en lidenskap som blander et ganske lite kvantum solid substans sammen med et langt større kvantum forfengelighet og feberfantasier.

I am not at all sure whether I would not much rather have given birth to one perfectly formed son by commerce with the Muses than by commerce with my wife.

El que puede decir cómo es su ardor, arde con un fuego pequeño.

Nietzsche was a revelation to me. I felt that there was someone quite different from what I had been taught. I read him with a great passion and broke with my life, left my job in the asylum, left France: I had the feeling I had been trapped. Through Nietzsche, I had become a stranger to all that.

Ahora bien, aquello sobre lo que Diotima y Sócrates se interrogan es el ser mismo de este amor, su naturaleza y su origen, aquello que constituye su fuerza y aquello que lo lleva con tal obstinación o con tal locura hacia su objeto: "¿Qué es el amor mismo, cuál es su naturaleza y, por consiguiente, cuáles son sus obras?".26

Flamme — l'âme s'effile comme une lame.