Quotes About Passion

Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.

Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness.

Art is the sex of imagination.

But recognition is often unsatisfying and fame is like sea-water for the thirsty. Love of your work, willingness to stay with it even in the absence of extrinsic reward, is good food and good drink.

The people we know as masters don't devote themselves to their particular skill just to get better at it. The truth is, they love to practice—and because of this they do get better.

Never marry a person," psychologist Nathaniel Brandon tells his clients, "who is not a friend of your excitement.

If a man does not work passionately - even furiously - at being the best in the world at what he does, he fails his talent, his destiny, and his God.

If you don't burn out at the end of each day, you're a bum.

I loved photography and everybody said it was a crazy thing to do because in those days nobody made it into the film business. I mean, unless you were related to somebody there was no way in.

Learning to make films is very easy. Learning what to make films about is very hard.

A lot of people like to do certain things, but they're not that good at it. Keep going through the things that you like to do, until you find something that you actually seem to be extremely good at. It can be anything.

The most dire disaster in love is the death of imagination.

Jealousy is love bed of burning snarl.

Kissing don't last: cookery do !

Cover me with kisses and lies

Queueing is the national passion of an otherwise dispassionate race. The English are rather shy about it, and deny that they adore it.

J. G. Ballard reminded us that 'the suburbs dream of violence. Asleep in their drowsy villas, sheltered by benevolent shopping malls, they wait patiently for the nightmares that will wake them into a more passionate world.

The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, a dim twilight, and a fountain singing to it. You and you alone make me feel that I am alive. Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough.

Then I discovered I loved writing poetry more than fiction.

Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand.

Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout with some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand.

As happens with people who love a thing too much, it destroys them. Oscar Wilde said, 'You destroy the thing that you love.' It's the other way around. What you love destroys you.

You hear that? That's the mating call of the northmen! They want to fuck us! Well, I haven't had a good fuck in weeks, I'm ready for one!

I only know she was the only thing I ever wanted. Someone took her away from me and Seven Kingdoms couldn't fill the hole she left behind.