Quotes About Passion

Indeed, Cutler had found a calling in life. "What I really wanted to do was work on computers, not apply them to problems.

there is such excitement about the life that when one has once taken it up it is seldom indeed that one changes it,

Maybe it was possible to relinquish control. He could do this, with Bengt he could. Give himself up and fly. He closed his eyes, let himself be pulled in by the touch. Bengt's arms. Bengt's hands on his thighs, arms, chest. Lips and tongue on neck and shoulders, the need for more. 'Don't stop.

If a man has any genuine talent he should be ready to make almost any sacrifice in order to cultivate it to the full.

Poetry is more valuable than cricket, but Bradman would be a fool if he sacrificed his cricket in order to write second-rate minor poetry (and I suppose that it is unlikely that he could do better).

Ambition is a noble passion which may legitimately take many forms; there was something noble in the ambitions of Attila or Napoleon; but the noblest ambition is that of leaving behind something of permanent value.

To love work for work's sake and not for its gain.

J'étais si heureux de sentir mon cœur capable d'un amour nouveau !... J'empruntais, dans cet enthousiasme factice, les formules mêmes qui, si peu de temps auparavant, m'avaient servi pour peindre un amour véritable et longtemps éprouvé. La lettre partie, j'aurais voulu la retenir, et j'allais rêver dans la solitude à ce qui me semblait une profanation de mes souvenirs.

Bebamos, amemos! ¡Esto es la sabiduría!

Art is so wonderfully irrational, exuberantly pointless, but necessary all the same.

I'm an artist. So if acting doesn't work out, which I hope it does, I'm probably going to go into graphic design or something like that.

I love sports - if I'm not acting, I'm probably doing sports.

the schoolmaster was one of those men for whom virtuous indignation was a necessity.

A tr?i înseamn? a fi neliber prin iubire.

I write poetry because I can't disobey the impulse; it would be like blocking a spring that surges up in my throat. For a long time I've been the servant of the song that comes, that appears and can't be buried away. How to seal myself up now?…It no longer matters to me who receives what I submit. What I carry out is, in that respect, greater and deeper than I, I am merely the channel.

She talks with an accent of savage seas. Her breathing is the breath of the wilderness, she has loved with a passion that makes her blanch, which she never mentions and which would be like the map of another star if she told us.

She loved only her lover and Iphigenia in the narrowness of her cold breast.

Like cider and aged wine I was desired, desired like the sheer blue cascade that dazzles the eyes of the thirsty.

Tennis has had a very positive impact on my life.

Tutto fu ambito e tutto fu tentato. Quel che non fu fatto io lo sognai e tanto era l'ardore che il sogno eguagliò l'atto.

Vivere ardendo e non bruciarsi mai

E la mia forza supina si stampa nell'arena, diffondesi nel mare; e il fiume è la mia vena, il monte è la mia fronte, la selva è la mia pube, la nube è il mio sudore. E io sono nel fiore della stiancia, nella scaglia della pina, nella bacca del ginepro: io sono nel fuco, nella paglia marina, in ogni cosa esigua, in ogni cosa immane, nella sabbia contigua, nelle vette lontane. Ardo, riluco. E non ho più nome.

Vivo in una solitudine selvaggia e raffinata, misera e opulenta, dove le passioni ardono s'inceneriscono riardono incessantemente.

Devíamos sempre aprender a amar-nos; é o único romance que dura a vida inteira.