Quotes About Passion

When a man asks himself what is meant by action he proves that he isnt a man of action. Action is a lack of balance. In order to act you must be somewhat insane. A reasonably sensible man is satisfied with thinking.

There is no passion like that of a functionary for his function.

Take flight each day! At least for a moment, however brief, as long as it is intense. Every day a "spiritual exercise,"…Leave ordinary time behind. Make an effort to rid yourself of your own passions… Become eternal by surpassing yourself. This inner effort is necessary, this ambition, just.

I have never heard a fisherman say that he loves the sea.

Now Borluut tried to work out how this had happened to him. Passion flows like a river and it is very difficult to go back to its source. It began imperceptibly.

Is not piety itself passion, but passion ennobled, sanctified? The whole of the Catholic liturgy, with its scenery and props, of which every one is an inspired invention, is enough to satisfy those suffering the obscure torments of a conflict between the ideal and sensuality.

Then he returned to his theme: 'If so many lovers feel the desire to die and more and more die each day, while still in love, it is because love and death are linked by analogies, by underground passages, and communicate. One leads to the other. The one makes the other more acute, more intense. There is no doubt that death is a great stimulant of love. ("Love And Death")

Writing is not a profession but a vocation of unhappiness. I don't think an artist can ever be happy.

The inspector knew the mentality of malefactors, criminals and crooks. He knew that you always find some kind of passion at the root of it.

The days you work are the best days.

I think it's so foolish for people to want to be happy. Happy is so momentary--you're happy for an instant and then you start thinking again. Interest is the most important thing in life; happiness is temporary, but interest is continuous.

Living out here has just meant happiness. Sometimes I think I'm half-mad with love for this place.

There is a pleasure sure In being mad, which none but madmen know. Dryden, The Spanish Friar II, i

I don't want him drooling all over the place like a sex-starved spaniel.

There is a pleasure sure In being mad, which none but madmen know. – DRYDEN, The Spanish Friar, II

literature and opera are full of characters who die for love: i stay alive for her. - Excerpt from "No Longer A Teenager

But you, Lynet, you deserve something better." Lynet leaned forward, looking into Gaheris's eyes. "I've found something better," she murmured, and then she kissed him.

God warns us not to love any earthly thing above Himself, and yet He sets in a mother's heart such a fierce passion for her babes that I do not comprehend how He can test us so.

I do think he hated him as one man will hate another who draws off the affection of a beloved.

Most of us have no real loves and no real hatreds. Blessed is love, less blessed is hatred, but thrice accursed is that indifference which is neither one nor the other.

Without fanaticism we cannot accomplish anything.

It is only by following your deepest instinct that you can lead a rich life.

Reason, ruling alone, is a force confining; and passion, unattended, is a flame that burns to its own destruction.

There are no rules. Just follow your heart.