Quotes About Passion

It is a revenge the devil sometimes takes upon the virtuous, that he entraps them by the force of the very passion they have suppressed and think themselves superior to.

Fanaticism consists in redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.

The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.

Fanaticism consists in redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim.

Love is only half the illusion the lover, but not his love, is deceived.

Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about his taste, nor condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.

Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about his taste, not condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.

Nothing is really so poor and melancholy as art that is interested in itself and not in its subject.

The generalizing writer is like the passionate drunk, stumbling into your house mumbling: I know I'm not being clear, exactly, but don't you kind of feel what I'm feeling?

There are times in a man's life when writing a novel is like taking an angel in his arms. When I wrote this one, ten years ago, that was how I felt.

There are as many reasons for running as there are days in the year, years in my life. But mostly I run because I am an animal and a child, an artist and a saint. So, too, are you. Find your own play, your own self-renewing compulsion, and you will become the person you are meant to be.

Writing, someone said, is turning blood into ink.

What you don't know by heart you haven't really loved deeply enough

there is in men and women a motivation stronger even than love or hatred or fear. It is that of being interested — in a body of knowledge, in a problem, in a hobby, in tomorrow's news­paper.

Baby fall into my kiss It should just happen like this... ....drink up this love....

Country music is important to me, and I love it, but it's not my whole life.

Because of demagogues, rhetoric has a tainted reputation in our time. However, rhetoric is central to democratic governance. It can fuse passion and persuasion, moving free people to freely choose what is noble.

She could not bear to look at him just now. If she did, she might well slap him again. Or cry. Or kiss him. And never know which was right and which was wrong and which was madness.

The verb to be is the vehicle of amorous frenzy.

Eroticism is assenting to life even in death.

The need to go astray, to be destroyed, is an extremely private, distant, passionate, turbulent truth.

Incredible nervous state, trepidation beyond words: to be this much in love is to be sick (and I love to be sick).

The sexual act is in time what the tiger is in space.

You perhaps now know that desire reduces us to pulp.