Quotes About Passion

You see me in my most virile moment when you see me doing what I do. When I am directing, a special energy comes upon me. ... It is only when I am doing my work that I feel truly alive. It is like having sex.

The only thing that keeps a man going is energy. And what is energy but liking life?

Years wrinkle the face, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.

Enthusiasm can only be aroused by two things: first, an ideal which takes the imagination by storm, and sec ond, a definite, intelligible plan for carrying that ideal into practice.

Opposition inflames the enthusiast, never converts him.

The same reason makes a man a religious enthusiast that makes a man an enthusiast in any other way ... an uncomfortable mind in an uncomfortable body.

It is the greatest shot of adrenaline to be doing what you've wanted to do so badly. You almost feel like you could fly without the plane.

Reason alone is insufficient to make us enthusiastic in any matter.

Nothing is so contagious as enthusiasm; it moves stones, it charms brutes. Enthusiasm is the genius of sincerity and truth accomplishes no victories without it.

The shoemaker makes a good shoe because he makes nothing else.

Was this the face that launch'd a thousand ships, And burnt the topless towers of Ilium? Sweet Helen, make me immortal with a kiss. - Her lips suck forth my soul; see, where it flies! -

All men are liable to error; and most men are ... by passion or interest, under temptation to it.

All is fair in love and war.

The mystery of love is greater than the mystery of death.

Hatred is a passion requiring one hundred times the energy of love. Keep it for a cause, not an individual. Keep it for intolerance, injustice, stupidity. For hatred is the strength of the sensitive. Its power and its greatness depend on the selflessness of its use.

As in political, so in literary action, a man wins friends for himself mostly by the passion of his prejudices.

Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do.

The mark of genius is an incessant activity of mind. Genius is a spiritual greed.

The lamp of genius burns quicker than the lamp of life.

Share the passion and action of your time, at peril of being judged not to have lived.

Anything worth doing is worth doing too soon.

A God-intoxicated man.

Unless you give yourself to some great cause, you haven't even begun to live.

To live means to have ... a mission to fulfill-and in the measure in which we avoid setting our life to something, we make it empty.