Quotes About Passion

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

He disliked emotion, not because he felt lightly, but because he felt deeply.

People don't ask for facts in making up their minds. They would rather have one good, soul-satisfying emotion than a dozen facts.

Follow your heart, and you perish.

The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved . . . the ones who never yawn and say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars.

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

Nobody has ever measured, even poets, how much a heart can hold.

The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of.

Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.

I need sex for a clear complexion, but I'd rather do it for love.

A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all.

Take heed lest passion sway Thy judgment to do aught, which else free will Would not admit.

The ruling passion, be it what it will, The ruling passion conquers reason still.

Give me that man That is not passion's slave.

Enthusiasm is the greatest asset in the world. It beats money and power and influence.

Hair is another name for sex.

All men are poets at heart.

Every man is a poet when he is in love.

I love this job. I love it to death. I love every waking minute of it.

Poetry was the maiden I loved, but politics was the harridan I married.

If you are possessed by an idea, you find it expressed everywhere, you even smell it.

Practice being excited.

Anything will give up its secrets if you love it enough.

There is neither encouragement nor room in Bible religion for feeble desires, listless efforts, lazy attitudes; all must be strenuous, urgent, ardent. Flamed desires, impassioned, unwearied insistence delight heaven. God would have His children incorrigibly in earnest and persistently bold in their efforts. Heaven is too busy to listen to half-hearted prayers or to respond to pop-calls. Our whole being must be in our praying.